Neil and David covered the February 2012 issue of Out magazine. Both talk how they first met, their relationship, how they aren’t “poster boys for gay relationships,” and more! It’s a great read and it’s cute story how they met and how their relationship started! Check it out below:

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
I ran into my friend Kate one day and she was with this brooding, James Dean–type guy in a leather jacket who gave me the head nod and then turned away. I assumed he was Kate’s boyfriend and said, “Nicely done.” And she said, “David? He’s not playing on my team, but he has a boyfriend.” So, then I just kept seeing him on the periphery, and in turn, catching up on him, but I didn’t want to be that guy who was creating some sort of romantic interference. So, I was always around when he was around, hoping the stars would align. When we all hung out for the first time — I was invited by Kate to an American Idol viewing party — I just stammered around him. I couldn’t take my eyes off him.

There’s something kinetic about him and his being. He’s classically sexy, yet he’s very much a boy in his energy. It’s a great dynamic. When I see people who are equally attractive, they tend to seem more quiet and kind of Marlboro Man-y, and David’s the antithesis of that. He’s more like Tigger. I’m, in turn, very introspective — the thinker, rather than the doer. I tend to weigh options before making decisions, and David is the polar opposite of that. We’re hyper similar and also incredibly opposite. We share a wardrobe. We have the same shoe size, body size, height, and weight. We’re both Gemini. We both like the idea of family — not a nuclear family, but a social family. Yet, we’re incredibly opposite in the way we process information.

I remember being in my mid-twenties, lying in bed thinking, I’ve never taken a shower with anyone before; I’ve never had any kind of long-term relationship. I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that — it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient. Thankfully, the world changed and perceptions changed, and my life went to the East Coast, where there’s a much greater acceptance of anonymity and freedom. In New York, I was able to date with my head held higher. In L.A., it felt much more gossipy….

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The creators of How I Met Your Mother, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, pull so many tricks and twists on their audience, it’s hard to believe anything they tell us. After all, Robin’s whole “storytelling to her kids” episode was a dream sequence, and that broke our hearts, dang it!

But there is someone on HIMYM that you can trust, and the answer may surprise you…

“Our rationale was that our narrator has never lied to us,” Carter Bays says. “We take the stuff he says as gospel. Ultimately, it’s a pretty reliable narrator. I think people can trust what Bob Saget says.”

So we invite you all to go through every episode of HIMYM and write down what Future Ted has said. Then email us the notes. Thanks!

And of course the question everyone is always thinking came up: when the freak do we get to meet the mother? And will we meet her before the series finale? Bays and Thomas may not have given a straight answer, but the important thing is that they have the answer.

“We have it worked out,” Bays reveals. “We kind of know what the endgame of the series is. It’s obvious this show is around one central question, so that meeting will be part of the endgame of the show. How much the show will go beyond that, we can’t really say one way or the other.”

The casting of the mother is “very tough” for the HIMYM team. “There’s one school of thought where she turns around and it’s Jennifer Aniston, some huge star. Or you might want someone you’ve never seen before.”

Other highlights from the HIMYM TCA presentation:

• Bays and Thomas have “talked about” when to end the series, and they definitely plan on letting fans know when the end is coming. “I would imagine going into the final season we’d probably hint people to that. I think we’re keeping undecided as for now and we’ll see how things shake up.”
• Jason Segel is also on aboard if the show goes past his contract. “I really agree that I’d like to see the story come to its natural end, whether it’s 8 years or 9 years. I was so relieved when I found out there was an actual plan,” he laughs.
• Ted (Josh Radnor) will eventually address why he is no closer to getting married since Lily and Marshall’s engagement in season one. “We’re going to see Ted do that exact assessment. He’s going to come up with what he thinks is the answer and then we’re going to explore whether it is the right answer for him. There’s big soul searching going on for Ted in episode 16, 17 and 18,” Thomas reveals.
• How will the gang manage to all hang out together in the bar with Lily’s baby situation? “We have a solution to that and you’ll see how it unfolds,” Bays teases. And though Marshall and Lily are hanging out a lot in the East Hampton house, they might not permanently shack up there. ” We’re going to explore them realizing it’s isolating living in the suburbs. Its not necessarily a permanent stop.”

Do you think the mother should be a big well-known star or an unknown? When do you think HIMYM should wrap up?

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Beth Behrs, Kristen Bell, Don Cheadle, Kat Dennings, Cuba Gooding Jr., Frank Grillo, Neil Patrick Harris, Cheech Marin, Robert Pattinson, Pauley Perrette, Josh Radnor, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, the cast of Hot in Cleveland including Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White, the cast of Pretty Little Liars including Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale and Shay Mitchell, and more are scheduled to attend PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2012. Hosted by Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory), the show will broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 11 (9:00-11)(9:live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris has said that he wants to get involved in the UK Celebrity Big Brother.

The Hollywood actor revealed on his Twitter account yesterday (January 9) that he has become addicted to watching clips of the British reality TV show, which features celebrities including Michael Madsen and X Factor’s Frankie Cocozza.

“I’ve found a new TV obsession: Celebrity Big Brother UK,” wrote the Broadway star. “Can’t stop watching YouTube videos! I so badly want to partake!”

Big Brother’s Bit on the Side co-host Jamie East tweeted Patrick Harris back: “I could help arrange that Neil!”

Patrick Harris is a well known fan of the US Big Brother, making a cameo appearance in Big Brother: All Stars in 2006.

Glamour model Jodie Marsh, chef Aldo Zilli and popstar brothers duo Jedward have been the special guests in the Celebrity Big Brother house so far this series.

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To be fair, Neil Patrick Harris already had a bit of an unfair advantage going in to today’s episode of The Price Is Right. Not only does the universally beloved star have daytime television experience (sorry, Snoop), but before his appearance for Celebrity Charity Week, NPH already got to hear those magic words “Come on down!” Well, technically, it was Barney Stinson who became the single greatest player in the history of the “original” Price Is Right after he won everything (including some sweet gifts for Marshall and Lily’s wedding) and met his “dad,” then-host Bob Barker. It was… well, you know.

So things were a little bit different this time around for the How I Met Your Mother actor. Though he did suit up for the occasion, Harris — who was playing for breast-cancer research organization the Noreen Fraser Foundation — served as something of a cohost to Drew Carey and helped his fellow contestants (a very un-Barney-like strategy) snag some most excellent prizes ($10,000!, a new car!), including the episode’s eventual champ Adam, by knowing things like the price for a cupcake maker and having an excellent strategy for the frustrating game Gas Money.

Of course, the real winner was enthusiastic contestant Destiny. While Destiny got thisclose to besting Adam in the Showcase Showdown (one of which included the enviable prize of getting to visit the set of HIMYM for a walk-on role), you can’t put a price tag on hugging and tackling NPH and not getting in trouble for it. Watch the highlights from his episode below, including his date with Destiny around the 1:02 mark!

Harris, who seemed to have just as much fun watching the contestants as he did participating himself, also got to spin the coveted big wheel for the second time in his life. While he didn’t do quite as well as Barney (no one ever has), he did give an oh-so-sweet shout-out to his parents, his partner David Burtka and their twins Gideon and Harper, and earned an impressive $65,238 for his charity.

Other celebrities appearing on this week’s special Price Is Right episodes include Jenny McCarthy, Chris Daughtry, and Heidi Klum.

What did you think of Neil Patrick Harris’ stint on The Price Is Right, PopWatchers? Would his cohosting skills (seriously, shouldn’t the guy just host everything at this point?) have impressed Bob Barker? (Of course!) Who was better as a celebrity assistant: NPH or Snoop Dogg? How much would you have killed to win that sweet HIMYM package? (I’m pretty sure my EW colleague Sandra Gonzalez and I would get into a vicious bidding war to end them all to win that.) Share in the comments section below.

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How I Met Your Mother enjoys a long history extending the life of its episodes with online ventures.

There was the foreboding Slap Bet Countdown, Barney’s Video Resume, TedMosbyIsAJerk.com and, of course, the evolving music video catalog of Robin Sparkles.

On Monday night the show returned from hiatus with “Tailgate.” And after alluding to their brief tenure as bar owners in a previous episode, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted (Josh Radnor) finally opened their bar, Puzzles. (“Why is it called ‘Puzzles?’ That’s the puzzle.”)

Motivated by steep New Year’s Eve cover at McClarens, the duo quickly turned Ted’s apartment into a bar, complete with velvet rope, a bar manned by Kevin (returning guest Kal Penn) and Cheers reminiscent signage.

CBS simultaneously launched PuzzlesTheBar.com. The site is home to photos from the episode, the bar’s mission statement, a detailed menu and calendar of events and the complete version of the bar’s theme song, as performed by Harris and Radnor during the episode.

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Congratulations to Neil for winning the 2011 Greggy Award for Star of the Year! You definitely deserved it!

Ellen DeGeneres and Neil Patrick Harris have won the 2011 Greggy Award for star of the year.

The annual award is handed out by gay entertainment website GregInHollywood.com, which is edited by longtime Hollywood corresponded Greg Hernandez.

Talk show host DeGeneres won the site’s Female Star of the Year award.

“It was a stellar year for our Female Star of the Year who not only entertains, but also deeply cares,” Hernandez wrote in announcing the winner. “This fall, when so many LGBT teen suicides were taking place, Ellen did not remain silent.”

Jane Lynch, who plays coach Sue Sylvester on the Fox musical-comedy Glee, won the award last year.

Neil Patrick Harris, the co-star of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, won the site’s Male Star of the Year award.

“It seems fitting that Neil Patrick Harris would get his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year. Now he can bookend that honor with another: the 2011 Greggy for Male Star of the Year!”

“He’s a man who seems to be more in demand with each passing year. He not only is supremely talented, but he’s also never seemed more comfortable in his skin and that just makes him all the more appealing.”

Chris Colfer, who plays gay student Kurt Hummel on the Fox musical-comedy Glee, won the award last year.

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Neil Patrick Harris‘ favorite festive movie is The Muppets Christmas Carol.

The 38-year-old actor — who raises 13-month-old twins Gideon and Harper with partner David Burtka — thinks the puppet film is “very sweet” but manages to place its own irreverent twist on Charles Dickens‘ classic novel A Christmas Carol.

“I’ve gotta go with The Muppets Christmas Carol as my favourite festive movie because it sort of accomplishes the same as Harold & Kumar — it’s an actual sweet holiday film that has a lot of really random jokes and errant drug abuse. Dickens and Henson!
“It’s a similar story to the book. I’m sure Dickens took liberties as well!” he said.

Earlier this year, the How I Met Your Mother actor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an accolade he was surprised to receive but has now set his sights on achieving more.

“I wasn’t even aware of how that process worked. I’m thrilled, and now I want to see how many symbols I can get in the middle. Mine had a little TV logo on it, but there are ones for music and film,” he said.

“I feel like I’m a TGI Fridays employee and they’re pieces of flair I need to start amassing as many pieces as I can!”

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Emmy Award winner and Broadway veteran Neil Patrick Harris attended Cirque du Soleil’s Iris, A Journey Through the World of Cinema, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, on Tuesday, December 27. After the performance, he visited backstage and posed with members of the cast.

Iris, written and directed by Philippe Decouflé, takes a unique look at the world of cinema, and bring together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences, and animation.

Harris’ stage credits include Company, Assassins, Rent, and All My Sons. He won Emmy Awards for hosting the 2009 Tony Awards and for his guest spot on FOX’s Glee. He stars in the CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, with his many film credits including The Smurfs and the Harold and Kumar movies.

Click here for more information and Iris tickets.

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ET was with a very young-looking, 16-year-old Neil Patrick Harris back in 1989, when he was gearing up to play Doogie Howser, M.D.

“They were looking for an unknown-ish, not a ‘Kirk Cameron’ face that everyone recognizes,” said Neil about landing his gig after a casting effort all around the country and cattle call to find the ideal star.

“In the pilot, he’s talking to his dad and he just wishes to be a normal kid, which is true for myself, and I’m sure a lot of child actors wish that they could start over again,” said the busy teen, who would study for school during breaks from the set. “When you’re a minor, you can only work so many hours a day.”

“I’m real honored to be able to do it,” said Neil of his job that would end up running for four seasons. “I think it’s great, and I’m grateful that this has all turned out as it has.”

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