{"id":563642,"date":"2026-03-25T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563642\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:08","slug":"howie-mandel-snaps-at-tv-host-kelly-ripa-in-awkward-on-camera-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563642\/","title":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel snaps at TV host Kelly Ripa in awkward on-camera moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Mandel wasn\u2019t happy with Kelly Ripa after the TV host made a comment about his looks and age after he celebrated his 70th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, opened the interaction on US breakfast program Live with Kelly and Mark by congratulating the America\u2019s Got Talent judge on reaching the big milestone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d Ripa, 55, added. Mandel then asked, \u201cWhat do you mean it doesn\u2019t make any sense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consuelos, 54, attempted to clarify his wife\u2019s comments for the comedian, telling him it\u2019s because \u201cyou look great\u201d, reports <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/24\/entertainment\/howie-mandel-snaps-at-kelly-ripa-in-awkward-on-camera-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat I look great?\u201d Mandel repeated. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d Mandel continued. \u201cI don\u2019t like that because that\u2019s a caveat, \u2019cause you tell someone you\u2019re 70, and they go, \u2018you look great\u2014\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Ripa interjected to assure Mandel that the hosts were \u201cnot saying you look great for 70 [years old]. Rather, \u201cWe\u2019re saying you look great and I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Mandel still wasn\u2019t having it. He doubled down on his point that the couple was saying exactly that \u201cwithout saying 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no. It\u2019s like saying you\u2019re smart for a stupid person,\u201d he explained, earning laughs from the audience. \u201c\u2018Oh, you seem smart, you seem smart,\u2019 you see, no, I don\u2019t look good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consuelos \u2014 who hasn\u2019t shied away from flexing his good looks on the talk show \u2014 made one more attempt to salvage the situation, telling Mandel that he does \u201clook good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the comedian diffused the tense moment by teasingly agreeing he\u2019s \u201cgorgeous\u201d and revealed his \u201cridiculous\u201d workout routine that delivered the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour friend, [TV show host] Jerry O\u2019Connell, got me into the most ridiculous workout I\u2019ve ever done in my life,\u201d Mandel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he gave me these frying pan paddles and I swim for an hour and go nowhere,\u201d he shared, noting that he gets \u201cso lost in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/24\/entertainment\/howie-mandel-snaps-at-kelly-ripa-in-awkward-on-camera-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel wasn\u2019t happy with Kelly Ripa after the TV host made a comment about his looks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2095,64,63,277603,277604,277602,447,134,173715,16756,16757,2041,2067,220671,2614,31870],"class_list":["post-563642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-awkward-on-air-moment","tag-awkward-on-camera-moment","tag-breakfast-program","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-howie-mandel","tag-kelly-ripa","tag-mark-consuelos","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-talk-show","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-workout-routine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}