Overview
- During a visit to Live with Kelly and Mark, the hosts praised Howie Mandel’s looks and noted he is 70.
- Mandel said praise tied to age feels like a caveat and compared it to saying someone is smart for a stupid person.
- Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos said their compliment stood on its own without any qualifier.
- Some outlets cast the exchange as awkward pushback, while others treated it as light banter that passed quickly.
- Mandel also described a swim‑in‑place workout that uses ankle cables and broad hand paddles.