Howie Mandel made an eyebrow-raising sex confession during a recent podcast episode with his daughter, Jackelyn Shultz.
“I have this lady that gives me tuggies,” Mandel, 70, said during the August 11 episode of his “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “It’s 25 bucks, and I get hand jobs.”
Mandel’s guest, podcaster Camilla Araujo, joked that $25 is a “good price” for such a service, but Shultz, 41, didn’t seem to find the exchange as humorous.
“I’m always so uncomfortable when you make these jokes,” she told her dad. “This is not, like, a father-daughter conversation usually.”
Schultz also asked her father whether her mom would “be upset” with the revelation and if it’s “considered cheating.” (Howie has been married to wife Terry Mandel since 1980. The pair share Jackelyn, son Alex, 36, and daughter Riley, 33.)
“You can call her,” Howie quipped.
The America’s Got Talent judge suggested that Terry, also 70, was in on the joke when his reps sent a photo to the Daily Mail showing the comedian’s wife wearing a glove and holding $25.
Howie has often joked about his marriage to Terry. In 2023, he quipped to People, “My wife doesn’t speak or understand a word of English, so that’s what works for us. I don’t know how to say ‘I am funny’ in her language, but it works for us.”
He continued, “Communication is overrated. I’ve been married for 43 years and we haven’t said a word to each other.”
The former Deal or No Deal host has also been candid about Terry’s impact on his decision to seek help for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
“I’d have my children and my wife spray everything down and not touch things. I wouldn’t take things that they were handed. I would remove some of their toys that I saw touch the ground. I was making their life miserable,” he told Today.com in 2023. “My wife just gave me an ultimatum. She goes, ‘I can’t do this anymore and I can’t have the children do it anymore. And if you don’t get help, that’s it.’ So it was an ultimatum that made me ultimately go to therapy, and I got diagnosed [with OCD].”
He added, “[Terry] has been nothing but supportive. It’s important to have people around you who are there for you. That’s key, but they don’t know to be there for you if you don’t talk about it.”
