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Neil Patrick Harris is getting into his cringey dad period.
“Okay Tokkers. Let’s do that!” Harris, 50, captioned his first-ever TikTok video, which featured his 13-year-old twins Gideon and Harper, on Thursday, February 22.
Within the clip, Harris regarded ecstatic to be making his debut on the social media platform whereas his teenagers regarded lower than thrilled to be a part of the second. Because the actor expressed his pleasure to the digicam, he mispronounced the identify of the app. Gideon corrected him in an exasperated method whereas Harper grimaced.
“Yeah! That is my first TikTok!” Harris exclaimed. “I’m gonna have so many followers, I’m gonna ramp up my rizz.”
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Gideon begged his father to “by no means, ever say that once more” whereas Harper quipped he was “not cool.” (Rizz is brief for charisma, which is fashionable slang for Gen-Z.)
“I’m gonna be a snack!” Harris declared, clearly not figuring out that the time period is the equal of calling somebody scorching, which earned disgusted faces from his children.
Harper screamed and coated her face together with her palms whereas Gideon declared he “already desires to hurl.”
Harris ignored his youngsters’s pleas to cease and continued the video by utilizing his iconic How I Met Your Mom catchphrase.
@neilpatrickharris Okay, Tokkers. Let’s do that!
“TikTok goes to be … await it …” he mentioned earlier than queueing up the music and dancing as his children walked off display screen.
Earlier than Harris might end the road, each Gideon and Harper referred to as out for his or her father to cease dancing.
“It’s too tacky,” Harper mentioned to her dad who replied, “You didn’t await it.”
Nevertheless, Gideon completed the road for his dad. “Dary! We get it!”
Harris in the end regarded dejected by the top of the video as he stopped his dance.
Harris and husband David Burtka welcomed Gideon and Harper by way of surrogate in October 2010. 4 years later, the couple tied the knot in Perugia, Italy.
Since changing into fathers, Harris and Burtka, 48, have shared highlights of their little ones rising up from their household’s ingenious Halloween costumes to their particular birthday events.
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“She’s, like, watching early episodes of me within the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, which is cute and odd,” he recalled in September 2021. “It’s cute. It’s humorous. I feel she makes use of it as a chance to type of mock [me] and be capable to assume it’s foolish.”
In October 2023, Harris celebrated a significant milestone for the twins as they turned 13. The How I Met Your Mom alum penned a touching tribute for the duo on the momentous event.
“And, similar to that, they’re youngsters,” he wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “Comfortable birthday, Harper and Gideon. You’re the lights of my life. I can’t wait to observe you need nothing to do with me, and I promise I’ll be with you thru all of it. Simply, wow.”
