LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO) -- Howie Mandel is in the hospital with an irregular heartbeat. His publicist insists the 53-year-old former host of Deal or No Deal did not have a heart attack. Mandel is in Toronto taping his new show "Howie Do It!"
TMZ says that paramedics found Howie in the elevator of a hotel conscious and breathing but suffering from severe chest pains. Doctors say he should be released today and back to work.