Julie Bowen Shares a Rare Relationship Update 8 Years After Her Divorce
Julie Bowen Shares a Rare Relationship Update 8 Years After Her Divorce
Hannah MalachWed, September 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC
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Julie Bowen on September 25, 2026.Credit: Getty ImagesBowen was married to real estate investor Scott Phillips for 13 years.The Gist -
Julie Bowen is in a relationship nearly a decade after divorcing Scott Phillips.
She and the real estate investor married in 2004 and separated 13 years later.
They share three sons: Oliver, John, and Gustave.
Julie Bowen is dating someone new nearly a decade after divorcing her husband Scott Phillips. The Modern Family alum, 56, discussed her mystery man on the red carpet at Step Up’s annual Inspiration Awards in Los Angeles.
Julie Bowen on September 25, 2026.Credit: Getty Images
“I have a lovely friend,” she told People on September 25. Bowen chose not to reveal his identity, though she described him as “smart and funny.”
“I need smart and funny,” she emphasized. “I don’t care what people look like—though he happens to be good-looking. But I don’t care what people look like. I like the brains.”
Scott Phillips and Julie Bowen in 2011.Credit: Getty
Bowen and Phillips, a real estate investor, married in 2004 and separated 13 years later. They share three sons: 19-year-old Oliver and twins Gustave and John, 17.
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At the same event, Bowen said that her home is “30% more quiet” now that Oliver has moved away for college. She joked that parenting three teenagers is “a lot,” adding: “I was going to a basketball game at 9 p.m., and I was like, ‘Oh, no.’”
Julie Bowen and her sons in 2024.Credit: Getty Images
Last year, Bowen shared the biggest lesson she’s learned from raising three children: “Believe in them,” she said at the 2025 Baby2Baby Gala.
“I like to micromanage and check everything, and that’s not good for the relationships. It’s good to remind them that no matter what, no matter how many things they’ve effed up on that week, that month, that year, that they’re doing more right than wrong. And that is something I’ve really learned—‘You’re doing more right than wrong,’” Bowen continued.
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