David Burtka

David Burtka is an American actor, chef, and restaurateur known for his recurring role as Scooter on How I Met Your Mother (CBS) and for his stage work in Gypsy and It's Only a Play on Broadway. He has been in a relationship with Neil Patrick Harris since 2004; the couple married in Italy in 2014 after the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York, and they have twins together via surrogacy born in 2010. Burtka has been openly gay throughout his career and has co-authored a cookbook, Life Is a Party (2019), celebrating the couple's love of entertaining.