The 19-year-old actress, who plays the ditzy oldest daughter of the Dunphy family, picked up and left her hometown of New York to move to Los Angeles last year, then booked the Modern Family gig just over a month later. While taking time off from shooting the sitcom after its first season, Sarah told Crushable she’s visited NYC and Texas, where she met her boyfriend’s family. Matt and Sarah met two years ago at a HSM3 screen test. They stayed in touch and a few months after Sarah moved to L.A. she decided to give it a go. Now the two are inseparable, appearing together on the red carpets of movies like The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and traveling to Hawaii together in March before Modern Family filmed an episode there. Matt even recently bought Sarah a maltipoo, who they’ve named Barkley Bixby, a loving tribute to her hit TV show.

“My boyfriend actually surprised me with him,” Sarah told us. “He said that we should wait until we get a bigger space to get the dog, and so I was like, ‘Okay fine.’ And then he said, ‘But if we did get one, what would we name him?’ And he [suggested] Barkley…There’s an episode where Jay, Ed O’Neill’s character has a dog butler and the dog butler’s name is Barkley. So we named him Barkley…In the Valentine’s Day episode, when my parents role play, Ty Burrell, who plays my father, he comes up with a character named Clive Bixby. So we took his role playing character’s last name and the dog butler’s first name for a perfect name.”

Sarah said she and Matt are planning to move in together — with Barkley — on August 10, although a friend might also be moving in with the couple, “So it’s not like, ‘Oh god, we’re going to be living together,’” Sarah told us.

They’ll be moving in together right around the time Modern Family goes back into production, although Sarah confesses she has no idea what the expect from the award-winning show’s second season. “I have absolutely no idea what is happening next year. At all,” she told Crushable, adding. “I think it would be really funny if Haley thought she could sing but was completely tone deaf. I keep coming up with random stuff when people ask me what’s going to happen next year. So I’m like, ‘I don’t know, that would be cool.’”

During her time on Modern Family, Sarah managed to squeeze in some movie shoots, including Mother’s Little Helpers, a movie in which she plays the girlfriend of a guy who starts an escort service for neighborhood moms in order to pay his private school tuition. Sarah also filmed a movie with her boyfriend Matt, Conception. “It’s kind of like an R rated version of Valentine’s Day,” Sarah told us. “There are 8 different couples who all have different situations and all end up pregnant. My boyfriend and I play a couple in it, and we play sophomores in high school and they lose their virginity to each other and they think they’re using a condom but it’s a really old condom. So everyone gets pregnant at the end of the movie.”

But, Sarah also told us she’s already played her dream role, on Law & Order. “I played a crazy psycho girl who murdered her roommate,” she explained. “That was a lot of fun to do. That was pretty much my dream role and I got to do it.”

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I’m a self-proclaimed High School Musical fan. I have all three DVDs and soundtracks and I even attended the concert when it visited my hometown in 2007. I’m also 22 years old and 18 days older than Zac Efron.

Somehow, I convinced two friends to come with me to attend the 17 Again premiere in London’s Leicester Square last spring while I was studying abroad. We arrived at the red carpet almost two hours early, but we still stood no chance of standing in prime red carpet real estate. We stayed though, ignoring the typical London drizzles, and hoping that maybe, Zac would walk to our spot toward the end of the carpet.

For anyone who’s ever been to a red carpet premiere, there is a camaraderie you develop with the people around you (at least in London, that is). My friends and I started talking to an 18-year-old girl next to us whose family had recently moved to London to escape the dangers of her home country, South Africa. She told us how guards with machine guns used to stand outside her house to protect her and how her mother kept a gun under her bed, as well, to protect her family from rebels. She claimed it had been that way her whole life. Suddenly my desire for Zac to sign my HSM3 DVD seemed silly and juvenile.

Then there was the small, 40-something man standing next to me who lived for the red carpet. He’d met Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt and had no clue who Zac Efron or any other celebrity that night was, but he made sure to elbow me out the way to get his autograph. He also knocked my mini notebook out of my hand, which I later found on the red carpet. Like before, I felt wrong trying to edge out this man for Jemma McKenzie-Brown (Tiara Gold for you HSM fans) to sign my HSM3 DVD case.

Despite all of the chaos, I caught a good look at Zac before someone threw something at him and the police forbade him to come near us. Unfortunately, when I looked at him I saw every boy walking around my campus, because, when he’s just five feet away from you, Zac Efron looks like the typical 21-year-old guy. Up close, he’s certainly not the dreamy poster boy that Perez Hilton draws white hearts over.

I suddenly realized that I needed to abandon my love for the Disney Channel. Who wants to wait for hours to fawn over someone who could sit next to you in lecture?

This realization, and the fact that I was still squished between shrieking tweens, prompted my friends and I to leave the scene, head over to Chinatown and demand a glass of red wine before we even sat down.

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(Photo: Zac Efron signs autographs at the London premiere of 17 Again. By Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

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Memoir: Zac Efron Helped Me Grow Up

Well, this is something we don’t see very often! Advance ticket sales for High School Musical 3 have beaten out advance sales for Harry Potter films:

High School Musical 3: Senior Year has had advance ticket sales of over £1million, far more than Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire.

The musical mania has also sent merchandise sales soaring, with kids’ shop Adams selling out of goods linked to the movie within hours of going on sale online.

– source

So how many of you out there have bought your tickets for HSM3? Come on, fess up!

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High School Musical 3 beats out Harry Potter for most advance sales record