Neil Patrick Harris will host the 61st Annual Emmy Awards, set to air Sept. 20 on CBS.
The 36-year-old How I Met Your Mother star hosted last year’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards and last month, NPH hosted the 2009 Tony Awards (ratings were up 20%).
Last year at the Emmy Awards, reality mainstays Heidi Klum, Tom Bergeron, Howie Mandel, Jeff Probst and Ryan Seacrest shared hosting duties.
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A baby is not on the way for Neil Patrick Harris and his longtime love David Burtka.
A source had told Star, “Neil and David were so relieved and excited once they were approved [for the adoption process]. Now they have so many surrogate profiles to go through to find the right woman to carry their child.”
A spokesperson for the couple just released a statement debunking these rumors. The rep told AfterElton,
“If Star says it, then it must be true! No, we are not currently expecting a baby. Maybe someday…”
Billy Elliot: The Musical stars Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish and David Alvarez hold up their Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (the first time three actors were nominated for one role) at the 2009 Tony Awards held at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (June 7).
How adorkable were their acceptance speeches?!
Billy Elliot won the most statues of the night, picking up 10 Tonys including the coveted Best Musical. The all-American Hair won as Best Musical Revival.
Thanks for host Neil Patrick Harris, 7.5 million viewers tuned in, up about 20% from last year and the show’s highest ratings in three years. Watch NPH’s closing musical number below!
I was able to go to the rehearsals earlier that morning and NPH jokingly sang towards the end of the closing song, “Don’t Twitter all my jokes.” Ha!
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Neil Patrick Harris attends the 2009 Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (June 7) in New York City.
If you’re on the East Coast, tune into CBS now!!! The opening number started off with Elton John singing and Billy Elliot boys dancing. It then moved onto the casts of West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Rock of Ages (with Poison’s Bret Michaels, Pal Joey, Next To Normal, Shrek, 9 to 5 (with Dolly Parton), Liza’s at the Palace (with Liza Minnelli), and Hair!
Basically all of Broadway was on stage at Radio City Music Hall during the opening number. Standing O!
NPH joked, “I’m told that was the biggest and most expensive number in the history of the Tony Awards… And that is why I am the host tonight (tilts head).”
P.S. I was lucky enough to attend the Tony’s rehearsals earlier this morning and you’ll want to stick around for the closing number. Let’s just say it involves NPH! More tweets from the rehearsals @jaredeng.
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Hugh Jackman is all smiles as he arrives at LAX airport with his son Oscar, 9, in Los Angeles on Friday (June 5).
The 40-year-old Aussie actor is a three-time host of the Tony Awards and most recently hosted the Oscars, so it’s no wonder that this year’s host for the Tonys reached out to him.
“I saw [Hugh] three or four days ago, and he couldn’t have been lovelier,” Neil told People. “I was asking him how to maintain the audience at Radio City [Music Hall]’s attention and [Hugh] had some good tips for me. He seemed very confident and said, ‘Make sure you don’t forget to have a lot of fun.’”
The Tony Awards will air LIVE @ 8PM ET/PT on Sunday, June 7 on CBS.
Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2009 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, live from NYC’s Radio City Music Hall.
“The discipline of live theatre — doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week — never ceases to amaze me,” the 35-year-old How I Met Your Mother star said in a press release. “I’m truly honored to have been chosen as the Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Tony Awards, and I hope to help provide a first-class evening for all.”
The Tonys will air live @ 8-11PM ET/PT on CBS.
Last week, NPH told me that he plans to go back to Broadway someday. “I would love to [move back to NYC] when HIMYM is done,” NPH told JustJared.com. “I think we’ll move back to the east coast. The pulse of the city is so strong, the heartbeat here, I think it’s a better place to live day to day. Definitely theater. [My partner David Burtka is a big theater actor too, so he misses it as well.”
Neil Patrick Harris promotes An Evening With How I Met Your Mother presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre on Tuesday (January 27) in North Hollywood, Calif.
The Academy of Magical Arts has announced that Neil Patrick Harris is both co-producing and hosting the Academy of Magical Arts Awards (The Oscars of Magic) on March 8th.
At the evening with How I Met Your Mother, a pregnant Alyson Hannigan came with her husband Alexis Denisof. Cobie Smulders, 26, who plays the single Robin Scherbatsky on How I Met Your Mother, revealed that her boyfriend, actor Taran Killam, proposed to her over the holidays.
20+ pictures inside of Neil Patrick Harris meeting your mother…
How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris grins his way through security as he catches a departing flight out of LAX airport in Los Angeles on Sunday (January 4).
The 35-year-old actor skipped the line at security as he made his way to New York City.
All week, Neil will be preparing to host the first Saturday Night Live of 2009, airing January 10th. Country music sensation Taylor Swift will be the musical guest.
Neil and his HIMYM co-stars Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulderson covered the holiday edition of TV Guide.
