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Neil Patrick Harris is a fan of Kelly Ripa — but don’t hold your breath for him to replace Regis Philbin.At the Calvin Klein/Americans for Marriage Equality launch event, the “How I Met Your Mother” star told us his obligation to the CBS sitcom would make it hard for him to become Ripa’s co-host on the ABC syndicated show.
Harris joined an A-list group that included City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, comic Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica, to support the cause at the Calvin Klein Madison Ave. flagship store on Monday night.
We asked Harris about the prospects of him replacing the recently departed Philbin — a possibility enthusiastically discussed in the media — but he told us it was unlikely.
“I’m a huge Kelly Ripa fan. But it’s on a competing network and I have a contractual obligation” — to “How I Met Your Mother,” which shoots in Los Angeles — “for at least another year and a half, and I can’t imagine she’d want to fly solo for that long.”
The former “Doogie Howser” star was less willing to discuss other subjects with us.
When we asked the openly gay actor what he would say to opponents of marriage equality, such as Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, he declined to answer the question with a simple shake of his head.
When we pointed out that a lot of people were rooting for Harris to be offered the job of hosting next year’s Academy Awards, he walked away before we could finish the question. (We also overheard him refuse to talk to a journalist for another media outlet because, he said, the publication “hadn’t been very nice” to him in the past.
Fortunately, other guests were in a chattier mood. Referring to Seinfeld’s presence at the party, City Council Speaker Quinn told us she found it “pretty funny” to find “the guy who created ‘The Marriage Ref’ at a marriage equality event!”
Quinn was also a bit starstruck by “The Kids Are All Right” actress Julianne Moore, who she said “may actually be a natural redhead, which I’m jealous about.” (We checked — she is.)
Perhaps the most memorable quote of the evening was a reference to Wintour’s juice in this town.
Brian Ellner, a senior strategist for the Human Rights Campaign, told the crowd that during the shooting of a public service announcement for HRC’s NYers Marriage Equality Campaign in Times Square, “we were getting a lot of blinking lights” that “our director of photography thought was going to be a problem.”
That is, until “Anna picked up the phone and somehow all the lights in Times Square went off,” Ellner said, adding: “That’s extraordinary power. True story. Mostly.”
Ellner later told us his story was a “fashion tall tale.”