Howie Mandel snaps at Kelly Ripa in weirdly tense interview

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Ripa and Consuelos began the segment by expressing their disbelief at Mandel’s age — something the 70-year-old wasn’t a fan of

Published Mar 25, 2026 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 2 minute read

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Talk about tension you could cut with a knife.

Things got painfully awkward between Howie Mandel and Kelly Ripa during Monday’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark.

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Ripa and Consuelos began the segment by expressing their disbelief at Mandel’s age — something the 70-year-old wasn’t a fan of.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” Ripa, 55, began, before Mandel interrupted her, asking, “What do you mean it doesn’t make any sense?”

When Consuelos, 54, told Mandel he looks great, the comedian responded, “That I look great? No. That doesn’t mean anything to me.”

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The couple tried to defuse the situation, but Mandel was already offended and blasted the hosts for their backhanded 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 go, ‘you look great’…”

Howie Mandel and Kelly Ripa are arguing in an awkward segment of Live with Kelly and Mark. Photo by Live with Kelly and Mark /YouTube

Ripa interjected, trying to assure the America’s Got Talent judge that that’s not what they meant.

“We’re not saying you look great for 70,” she clarified. “We’re saying you look great and I don’t believe you’re 70.”

Mandel, however, refused to back down and explained why he found their comments so insulting.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos reacting to Howie Mandel in an awkward segment of Live with Kelly and Mark. Photo by Live with Kelly and Mark /YouTube

“No. No. It’s like saying ‘you’re smart for a stupid person,’” he said. “‘Oh, you seem smart, you seem smart,’ you see, no, I don’t look good.”

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Consuelos continued to challenge Mandel, insisting the comedian does “look good.”

Meanwhile, Ripa’s face was so scrunched up in confusion, like she wasn’t sure what was to come — but it was all good.

Howie Mandel smiling after awkward exchange on Live with Kelly and Mark. Photo by Live with Kelly and Mark /YouTube

Mandel did a 180 and attempted to lighten the mood as he jokingly agreed he looks “gorgeous,” before sharing his workout routine that has helped deliver his age-defying results.

“Your friend, [actor] Jerry O’Connell, got me into the most ridiculous workout I’ve ever done in my life,” he revealed.

“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 detailed.

“Then he gave me these frying pan paddles and I swim for an hour and go nowhere,” he exclaimed, but added that he gets “so lost in it.”

Mandel said he even takes them everywhere when travelling for work, joking that he’s scared \ a few kids in hotel pools.

Ripa joked, while presumably breathing an inward sigh of relief: “You’re doing everything we’ve trained children not to do in a pool.”

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