Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are new dads

Neil Patrick Harris has become a dad for the first time - to twins.

The How I Met Your Mother actor and gay partner David Burtka welcomed baby son Gideon Scott and baby daughter Harper Grace on 12 October via a surrogate.

'All of us are happy, healthy, tired, and a little pukey,' Neil, 37, writes on Twitter.

Neil and David, 35, have been together since 2004. 

He shot to fame as a child actor in US show Doogie Howser, M.D.

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