Neil Patrick Harris Makes His TikTok Debut — & Absolutely Mortifies His Teens In the Process
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Cringe doesn’t begin to describe Neil Patrick Harris’s first TikTok. He made his debut on the video-sharing platform on Thursday, to the absolute horror of his 13-year-old twins Harper and Gideon, who he shares with husband David Burtka.
“Are you guys so excited?” the How I Met Your Mother star asks in the video. He’s wearing a gray hoodie and camo pants as he kneels on the floor next to Gideon. Harper is wearing a green camo hoodie and khaki pants and is standing on the other side of her dad. She shakes her head with an emphatic “No,” while Gideon sighs and asks, “What are you doing now?”
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‘Tick-Tack!’
“I’m joining the tick-tack!” Harris enthusiastically responds, making Gideon do a face palm.
“TikTok,” he corrects.
Harris increases the mortification by saying, “I’m going to have so many followers, I’m going to ramp up my rizz —”
“Never, ever say that again,” Gideon says.
“You’re not cool, you’re not special,” Harper chimes in.
“I’m gonna be a snack!” he continues, oblivious to his teens’ embarrassment. Harper screams and says “Oh my god,” before covering her face and walking away.
Then, in a nod to his longtime fans, Harris channels his inner Barney Stinson. “TikTok is going to be legend — wait for it!” then he gets up and starts doing a dance while his kids walk offscreen.
“No, it’s too cheesy,” Harper critiques.
“You didn’t wait for it!” Harris responds.
“Dairy! We get it,” Gideon adds. I just busted out laughing. His kids are so over Harris’s dad jokes. As a fan, I’m obsessed. But as a parent, I totally get how your kids are the last ones to think you’re cool!
World Travelers
Earlier this month, Harris and Burtka took the twins to Japan, “I went to Japan. With my family. It ruled. Link for the whole run-down in my bio. #VisitJapan,” he captioned a photo showing the family of four.
They also took their kids on a cruise with Disney Wish. “They’ve been great,” Harris told PEOPLE about the twins. “They’re surprisingly great. They’re city kids, they live in Manhattan, New York, so I find them fairly mature 13-year-olds, but it’s nice to see them navigate the world now that they’re teenagers with some sense of knowledge and sense of self.”
“That’s what we work really hard as parents to do is instill some sort of values into them, and then you sort of let them go and exist and they’re crushing it. Very proud of them,” he added.
Burtka added, “We’re definitely told we’re the coolest parents out of all the friend groups.”
So, even if the teens don’t think their parents are cool, at least their friends do!
Celebrities — they’re just like us! Especially when it comes to embarrassing their kids.
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