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America’s Got Talent and Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel may be good at entertaining studio audiences, but he majorly face-planted this week at a task better left to a hard-hitting, qualified journalist: an in-depth sitdown with Tom Sandoval of Vanderpump Rules, aka the adulterer at the center of “Scandoval.” And now, the ensuing fallout has made way for a host of Mandel critics to voice their disproval, including Andy Cohen and Lala Kent.
In his conversation with Sandoval for his podcast, Mandel revealed that he knew close to nothing about the admittedly labyrinthian reality TV scandal involving Sandoval, his ex-partner Ariana Madix, and Raquel Leviss, the mistress Sandoval is currently taking a break from.
Mandel gave Sandoval ample airtime to flagrantly trash his ex, which he gladly did. The Bravo star claimed Madix was depressed, uncommunicative, and that she punched him when he attempted to break up with her. In response, Mandel was nauseatingly chummy.