Howie Mandel just celebrated his 70th birthday – but he doesn’t want to hear about how good he looks.
The America’s Got Talent host appeared on Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday, with Mark Consuelos, 54, beginning the segment by acknowledging Mandel’s milestone birthday.
However, the couple then expressed their disbelief over his age – much to Mandel’s chagrin.
‘It doesn’t make any sense,’ Kelly Ripa, 55, began, before Mandel interjected, asking: ‘What do you mean it doesn’t make any sense? That I look great?’
Ripa and Consuelos then scrambled to defuse the situation, as Mandel told them he didn’t like the way they phrased the compliment.
‘No. No. No,’ he told the couple. ‘I don’t like that because that’s a caveat. When you tell someone you’re 70, and they say you look great… ‘
Ripa chimed in again during the tense moment, assuring the actor that’s not what they meant.
‘We’re not saying you look great for 70 [years old],’ the TV host assured him. ‘We’re saying you look great and I don’t believe you’re 70.’
Howie Mandel just celebrated his 70th birthday – but he doesn’t want to hear about how good he looks
The America’s Got Talent host appeared on Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday, with Mark Consuelos, 54, beginning the segment by acknowledging Mandel’s milestone birthday while Ripa told him that he looked great
However, Mandel refused to let the comment go, explaining to the pair why it offended him.
‘No. No. It’s like saying you’re smart for a stupid person,’ he told them. ‘”Oh, you seem smart, you seem smart,” you see, no, I don’t look good.’
Thankfully, he then attempted to lighten the mood as he jokingly agreed he looks ‘gorgeous’ before sharing his workout routine with the hosts.
‘Your friend, [TV show host] Jerry O’Connell, got me into the most ridiculous workout I’ve ever done in my life,’ he shared.
‘I swim but have these cables which I tie onto my ankles and then I attach them to whatever is at the side of the pool,’ he continued.
‘Then he gave me these frying pan paddles and I swim for an hour and go nowhere,’ he exclaimed, adding he gets ‘so lost in it.’
Mandel said he takes them everywhere when traveling for work, joking that he’s scared a few kids in hotel pools.
‘You’re doing everything we’ve trained children not to do in a pool,’ Ripa joked.
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Ripa and Consuelos then scrambled to diffuse the situation, as Mandel told them he didn’t like the way they phrased the compliment
It’s not the first time the couple, who have hosted the show together for almost three years, have had a tense moment on air.
Last week, they interviewed Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul, who was named the Bachelorette for season 22 of the famous franchise, when their interview was suddenly cut off after they asked about the allegations she’s facing over domestic abuse.
Paul was on the show to promote her season of The Bachelorette, which was cancelled a day later after TMZ released a video from 2023 showing an altercation between Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen.
During her appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark on March 18, Ripa asked: ‘How are you doing? There’s a lot going on with you.’
But, Paul’s response was cut short with the audio and video of the interview pausing after she answered: ‘I’ve had better days, I will say…’
The segment properly resumed after Ripa asked the Mormon Wives star about attending the 2026 Oscars.
