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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Louis Chilton

Neil Patrick Harris reveals real reason Barney was so ‘toxic’ in How I Met Your Mother

Neil Patrick Harris has spoken about the real reason his character on How I Met Your Mother seemed so “toxic” – and why the character’s sinister side wasn’t always as it seemed.

Harris, 53, played the womanising, well-to-do Barney Stinson in all nine seasons of the hit sitcom, which ran on the US network CBS between 2005 and 2014.

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