Neil patrick is gay
Neil Patrick Harris has decided to tell the nature he's gay.
"(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay human living my being to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.
The 33-year-old actor said he decided to reveal his sexuality to end "speculation and interest in my private animation and relationships."
Harris may be referring to an Oct. 23 item on the Web site Canada.com that claimed he had helped his "longtime sweetheart," player David Burtka, ground a part on his hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
That was followed by an unconfirmed report Nov. 1 that a publicist for Harris said the actor is "not of that persuasion."
Perez Hilton, Defamer.com and other gossip blogs jumped on the topic, eager to "out" the actor.
Hilton, who is openly gay, counts Harris' coming out as a victory. "We are so pleased (despite the naysayers) in having a hand in bringing about change," writes the self-defined "Queen Of All Media," using the royal "we."
Harris rose to fame on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series "Doogie Howser, M.D."
He plays the womanizing Barney Stinson on the CBS show "How I Met Your Mother."
High-Wire Act
Neil Patrick Harris is kissing the actress Cobie Smulders. It’s an intimate kiss, eyes closed, complete with depressed moans.
The pair accept on a Fresh York City stoop, on the Los Angeles set of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which returns to the air next Monday. It’s a cold, late-summer night. “It feels like Recent York weather,” says Josh Radnor, who plays Ted, the nice-guy lead, as they prep the next take. The show is by design Ted’s story, told to his children, but this season the excellent romance belongs to his friend Barney, played by Harris. Four seasons ago, Barney was a mere comic sidekick, but Harris’s production has turned him into a larger-than-life figure, a suit-fetishizing horndog whose catchphrases (“Legen—wait for it!—dary”) are printed all over CBS swag and who even has his possess spin-off book, The Bro Code. Now he’s moving into deeper waters, struggling with what it might mean to have more than just another one-night stand. In the scene they’re filming, Barney is trying to behave prefer a boyfriend—learning, enjoy Pinocchio, to be a real boy.
Again and again, the actors kiss. A writer adds a punch line about breasts pointing two different ways
Neil Patrick Harris talks straight actors playing gay characters
Neil Patrick Harris has weighed in on the debate over straight actors playing gay characters.
The actor, who came out as gay in 2006, says he doesn't see an issue. In a Thursday interview with U.K.'s The Times, Harris shared his thoughts on the comments made by screenwriter Russell T Davies, who said he is opposed to straight actors playing gay roles.
"I’m not one to jump onto labeling. As an actor, you certainly long for you can be a evident option for all kinds of different roles," the 47-year-old Emmy nominee said, using the traits he played on "How I Met Your Mother" -- serial womanizer Barney Stinson -- to illustrate his point.
"I played a character for nine years that was nothing like me," Harris said before referencing Davies' series "Queer as Folk," which starred three straight actors as homosexual men.
"It was one of the real true turning points for me as examples of sexy guys behaving as leads in something of import, not as comic sidekicks," the father of two explained. "There’s something something sexy about casting a unbent actor to
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