{"id":545068,"date":"2026-03-25T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:21:08","slug":"howie-mandel-on-kelly-ripa-mark-consuelos-age-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545068\/","title":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel on Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos\u00a0Age Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Howie Mandel, Kelly Ripa Have Eyebrow-Raising Exchange During \u2018Live\u2019 Appearance<\/p>\n<p>Howie Mandel\u00a0won\u2019t deal with false flattery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After congratulating the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1384898\/howie-mandel-reacts-after-getting-booed-by-americas-got-talent-audience-for-criticizing-kids-act?query=howie%20mandel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">America\u2019s Got Talent<\/a>\u00a0judge on turning 70,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kelly Ripa<\/a>\u00a0caught some flak for saying \u201cit doesn\u2019t make any sense\u201d how gracefully he\u2019s aging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Howie said on the March 24 episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JnZmQsH9ADA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live With Kelly and Mark<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cWhat do you mean it doesn\u2019t make any sense?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying Kelly\u2019s point, her cohost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mark_consuelos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mark Consuelos<\/a>\u00a0added, \u201cYou look great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/934997\/howie-mandel-doesn-t-remember-meghan-markle-on-deal-or-no-deal?query=howie%20mandek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Deal or No Deal<\/a>\u00a0host didn\u2019t take the couple\u2019s praise as a compliment\u00a0necessarily.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean anything,\u201d Howie said before interjecting with a pointed finger, \u201cNo, no, no. I don\u2019t like that because that\u2019s a caveat because you tell someone you\u2019re 70, and they go, \u2018you look great\u2014&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to get the compliment to resonate, Kelly chimed in, \u201cWe\u2019re not saying you look great for 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howie passionately interjected, \u201cYes you are without saying \u201970,\u2019\u201d before Kelly continued, \u201cNo, we\u2019re saying you look great and I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mark stood ten toes down on the statement, saying over the pair, \u201cI am\u00a0saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the\u00a0Here&#8217;s the Deal: Don&#8217;t Touch Me\u00a0author insisted the flattery was backhanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel, Kelly Ripa Have Eyebrow-Raising Exchange During \u2018Live\u2019 Appearance Howie Mandel\u00a0won\u2019t deal with false flattery.\u00a0 After congratulating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-545068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}