Howie Mandel released after overnight hospital stay
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 1:12 PM ET
CBC News
A May 2, 2008, file photo shows Howie Mandel in Los Angeles. Mandel was hospitalized in Toronto with an irregular heartbeat on Monday. (Matt Sayles/Associated Press)Canadian comedian Howie Mandel was released from a Toronto hospital on Tuesday after being rushed there the night before suffering from an irregular heartbeat.
The host of the TV game show Deal or No Deal collapsed in his hotel room Monday evening, according to his mother, Evy Mandel.
The Toronto-born comic is back in the city shooting a new hidden camera show called Howie Do It.
A spokesman for Mandel emphasized that the comic did not suffer a heart attack, as some media outlets had reported.
"Howie is in the hospital being monitored for an irregular heartbeat but doctors expect him to be released and back to work [Tuesday]," Lewis Kay said in a statement Monday night.
Kay revised his statement on Tuesday and said Mandel would return to filming Wednesday.
Toronto Police Staff Sgt. Devin Kealey told the Canadian Press that police were called to a downtown hotel in response to a male with a "medical condition shortly after 7 p.m. Monday."
"All I can tell you was that he was conscious and breathing and that he was obviously talking to the officers," Kealey said.
Mandel was taken to St. Michael's Hospital.
Mandel, 53, also starred on TV's St. Elsewhere in the 1980s.
With files from the Canadian Press
