From what little I know about Eric Stonestreet – Cameron on Modern Family – he’s seemingly friends with most people in Hollywood and beyond. Some celebrities are just like that, have you noticed? Like, Gwen Stefani is friendly with everyone, without being a Taylor Swift-esque friend collector. Jason Bateman is friends with everyone too. And Eric seems to have a lot of female friends in particular, many of them attractive, younger women. So if you told me that Eric has been friendly for a while with Bethenny Frankel, I would shrug and say “sure.” But E! News says that Eric and Bethenny’s relationship has moved beyond friendship – they’re actually dating now. Which is… just weird.

There’s a new couple in Hollywood! E! News has exclusively learned that Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel has a new beau, and it’s none other than Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet! While the relationship news may be new to many of us, these two have been enjoying each other’s company casually for a few months now. The pair were all smiles for the camera while attending the 2015 CAA Upfronts Celebration Party in New York City back in May, and were also spotted out and about together later that month.

Stonestreet even posted a photo of his girlfriend with gal-pal and fellow Housewife Carole Radziwill at the time, captioning the picture, “Took a picture of these 2 randos today.”

More recently, the new duo stepped out to enjoy a good ole baseball game together! An eyewitness tells E! News Stonestreet and Frankel attended the Los Angeles Dodgers game last Monday when the Boys in Blue played the Philadelphia Phillies.

Frankel hasn’t dropped too many hints that she’s newly attached, but she did recently tweet, “I’m very happy right now. It took me a minute but I’m here. Xo,” and followed today with, “I’ve really changed my mind on something: i think if u have a great textual banter, compatibility is likely.”

We can only imagine the “textual banter” between these two funny stars. “He’s very different from his character on Modern Family. He’s sharp and funny, but his humor is darker,” a source tells us of Stonestreet, and adds that, “He has an incredible relationship with his parents, especially his mom,” and is “very proud of his mid-western roots.”

[From E! News]

Yes, “mid-western roots” – Eric seems grounded and normal, whereas Bethenny is a neurotic, lying nut-job from New York. Opposites attract? For what it’s worth, both Bethenny and Eric took to Twitter to make fun of the dating rumor, but even Gossip Cop says Bethenny has a history of lying to the press and GC isn’t really buying her denial specifically. Bethenny is still in the middle of a nasty divorce battle with her ex, Jason Hoppy, so maybe she doesn’t want to be seen as having a steady boyfriend or something.

CB theorized that Bethenny will probably do a “makeover” on Eric if it is on. CB pointed out this People story, about Bethenny basically haranguing an overweight employee to lose weight using her “Skinnygirl” crap. Will she do the same to Eric? Ugh.

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