Neil Patrick Harris and the Tony Awards have become such a winning combination that the multi-talented star has just been signed to host the show for the fourth time.

He said in a tongue in cheek statement: 'I’m very excited to be back hosting the Tony Awards at the legendary Radio City Music Hall. It’ll be more impressive than ever—if my math is correct, it will be 267 times bigger than last year. Oh, wait. No, that can’t… hold on… carry the one… I’m awful at math. But rest assured, the show will rock!'

Neil Patrick Harris says an 'exclusive' National Enquirer cover story alleging that he and fiance David Burtka have called off their wedding is false.

'The Nat Enq is cray cray,' the actor tweeted late Wednesday (27 February) 'We’ve never had a wedding date, just engaged (Prop 8 and all).'

Perez Hilton usually can't wait to spill secrets.

But the gay blogger had remained mum, until today, about the fact that he is now a father.

'I am ready to announce that earlier this month I was blessed with the birth of my first child, a beautiful and healthy baby boy - with lots of hair on his tiny head!' he announced to readers on PerezHilton.com.

A far-right website is accusing US television network CBS of pushing a 'gay agenda' and 'mocking' Christians by featuring actor Neil Patrick Harris in its Super Bowl adverts.

In its 'news' report, WND slams the channel for using the openly gay 'How I Met Your Mother' star to promote the forthcoming American football tournament.

In 2012, gay people and their rights have made international headlines like never before.

From Obama becoming the first US president to back marriage equality to Pope Benedict XVI saying gays are not fully developed humans, gay rights issues have come to the forefront.

We have had a look at the year and found the most important, shocking, hilarious and weird stories, and this is the best of the best from the first third of the year.

Where best to begin? Let’s start with…

When Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka met and fell in love, each was appearing in a Broadway show - Harris in Assassins and Burtka in Gypsy.

They moved to Los Angeles when Harris landed the role of Barney Stinson on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother which remains a big hit in its eighth season.

But Harris says once the show ends its run, the couple and their children, Gideon and Harper, will return to their theater roots.

On How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris dreams of seducing women. But on his new web series, he dreams in puppet.

The Emmy winning actor debuted a new web series this week called Neil's Puppet Dreams with six more episodes to follow - one per week. Harris interacts with Jim Henson puppets in a dream state in the quirky series on Chris Hardwick's Nerdist channel.

Harris was part of a previous success that originated on the web: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. He was eager to experience that kind of creative freedom again.

Nominations for the 2013 People's Choice Awards were announced in Beverly Hills Thursday (15 November) but you won't find much in the way of LGBT representation in any of the 17 movie categories.

The closest would be a nod for Perks of Being a Wallflower in the category of Favorite Dramatic Movie. One of the leads is a out actor Ezra Miller and he plays a gay teen in the movie.

The television categories are a bit of a different story.

Neil Patrick Harris seems to be very good with time management.

The star of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother always seems to be able to squeeze in movie (Harold & Kumar, Smurfs), stage (Company) and award show (Tonys) gigs around his series schedule and life with partner David Burtka and their young twins.

Harris, 39, has just announced that he is bringing the sleight of hand magic show Nothing to Hide to the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Danny Roberts has not been in the spotlight much since he was featured as part of the New Orleans cast on MTV's The Real World in 2000.

But he's never been forgotten.

In his 2008 interview with Out magazine, Neil Patrick Harris said Roberts was a role model for him at that time because 'before him I'd never seen anyone wear [homosexuality] so comfortably.'

Neil Patrick Harris, already juggling work on television, in movies and on the stage, is also busy writing a book that will be published in 2014.

The two-time Emmy winner's book is so far untitled but it is a memoir of sorts described as 'imaginative non-fiction that delivers an interactive, non-linear reading experience.'

'I'm excited to be writing a book of the observations and stories of my life,' Harris said in a statement from publisher Crown Archetype.

Between Doogie Howser MD and How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris had quite a successful career on Broadway.

One of this shows was the Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins which explores the lives and motivations of the people who have killed or tried to kill U.S. presidents, including John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Hinckley Jr.