Howie Mandel confronted Andy Cohen on Thursday about calling him a “son of a bitch” nearly a year ago, at one point asking him if he respected him.
The conversation between Mandel, 68, and Cohen, 55, took place Thursday on the SiriusXM show Andy Cohen Live, more than nine months after the initial comments were made.
The situation started on April 11, 2023 when Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, 50, appeared on Mandel’s podcast Howie Mandel does things during the period when Sandoval was in the middle of ‘Scandoval’ – the scandal in which he was caught cheating on his long-time girlfriend Ariana Madix with Raquel Leviss.
Mandel’s conversation with Sandoval marked the 40-year-old reality star’s first public interview since his infidelity story broke, and Cohen and Vanderpump Rules viewers were critical of Mandel at the time, saying he wasn’t prepared with the right questions for Sandoval amid the headlines . scandal.
On the April 11, 2023 edition of Watch What Happens Live, Cohen began the rant following Mandel’s Sandoval interview.
Howie Mandel, 68, on Thursday confronted Andy Cohen, 55, about calling him a “Jackhole” almost a year ago, at one point asking him if he respected him. Pictured last month in Pasadena, California
Cohen was photographed last month at the SiriusXM studios in New York City
“Tonight’s screwball lies in the fact that Howie Mandel apparently didn’t know what he was getting into with his interview with Tom Sandoval today,” Cohen said. “Because it looks like he hasn’t done his homework?”
Cohen said that as a result of the interview, “Both Sandoval and Howie were dragged on social media,” and advised the veteran entertainer to be careful with Bravo’s “very passionate” fans.
“Howie, you have to be careful before you take sides,” Cohen said.
On Thursday, Mandel told Cohen that he had never seen Vanderpump Rules at the time he interviewed Sandoval.
He directly confronted Cohen about the aforementioned name-calling and asked him, “Don’t you respect me for that? Why am I an asshole?’
Cohen sidestepped the comment, saying he didn’t feel Mandel was an “asshole” and that Mandel’s relaxed interview with Sandoval had worked out “personally good” for him, leaving plenty of unasked questions for him about the scandal. capitalize later.
“It saved me a little bit of grilling later at the reunion,” Cohen said. “So it turns out maybe I should give you the maze instead, because we’re doing a bastard and a maze.”
Mandel told Cohen that he was on the receiving end of “so much hate” after giving Sandoval the platform to “bury himself deeper” amid the cheating scandal, likening the turn of events to “making a statement and then going to watch the drama in the courtroom’. unfold.
On Thursday, Mandel told Cohen that he had never seen Vanderpump Rules at the time he interviewed Sandoval.
Cohen was photographed in Miami earlier this month
Mandel said Sandoval claimed he split from Madix amid a wave of relationship problems.
“He told me a story about how she wanted to have kids and he said, ‘Are you crazy? I broke up with her,'” Mandel said of Sandoval.
Mandel said that on “the next episode” of Vanderpump Rules, Sandoval and “his friend Tom Schwartz” went to a fertility clinic to check the status of his sperm.
Mandel said, “I say, ‘Well, that’s not what he told me. He told me he broke up with me and that it was crazy that she wanted to have kids.’
Vanderpump Rules 11th season debuts January 30 on Bravo at 8/7c.