Howie Mandel confronts Andy Cohen for calling him a ‘jackhole’ after Tom Sandoval interview

Howie Mandel and Andy Cohen have made a deal.

The former “Deal or No Deal” host reached a truce with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” Thursday after the Bravo honcho called him a “jackhole” last year.

The dig came after Mandel hosted Tom Sandoval on his “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast in April 2023 following the bombshell revelation about his affair with “Vanderpump Rules” co-star Raquel Leviss.

“Tonight’s jackhole goes to the fact that Howie Mandel apparently didn’t know what he was getting himself into with his interview of Tom Sandoval today,” Cohen said on “Watch What Happens Live” at the time.

“Because it seems like maybe he didn’t do his homework?”

Cohen made the insult in April 2023 after Mandel interviewed Tom Sandoval following his affair bombshell. Instagram “Tonight’s jackhole goes to the fact that Howie Mandel apparently didn’t know what he was getting himself into with his interview of Tom Sandoval today,” he said on “Watch What Happens Live” at the time. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/Youtube

With a few laughs, Cohen, 55, added, “Now, both Sandoval and Howie are being dragged on social media.”

“Howie, you have to be careful before you take a side,” he continued. “Bravo fans are very passionate.”

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During his chat with Cohen on Thursday, Mandel, 68, admitted he hadn’t seen “Vanderpump Rules” before doing the interview with Sandoval, 40.

Mandel admitted to Cohen Thursday that he hadn’t watched the show before interviewing the “Vanderpump Rules” star. “Don’t you respect me for that? Why am I a jackhole?” he then asked.

“Don’t you respect me for that? Why am I a jackhole?” he then wondered.

Cohen conceded that maybe Mandel wasn’t a “jackhole” after all and even said the whole situation ended up “working out well personally” for him.

“It kind of saved the grilling for me later at the reunion,” he joked. “So it actually, as it turns out, maybe I should give you the mazel instead because we do a jackhole and a mazel.”

Cohen conceded the situation ended up working out in his favor and even debated taking back the “jackhole” title. Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images “It kind of saved the grilling for me later at the reunion, so it actually, as it turns out, maybe I should give you the mazel instead because we do a jackhole and a mazel,” he joked. Getty Images for SiriusXM

Mandel said he received “so much hate” for giving Sandoval the platform to “bury himself.”

He even described the scenario as “having a deposition and then watching the courtroom” before calling out some of Sandoval’s questionable stories at the time.

“He said he broke up [with girlfriend Ariana Madix]. He told me a story about how she wanted to have kids and he went, ‘Are you crazy? I broke up with you,'” Mandel recalled of his conversation with the reality star.

Mandel previously said he took the “jackhole” dig as a compliment. nickviall/Youtube

“The next episode [of ‘Vanderpump Rules’] has him and his buddy Tom Schwartz walking into a … fertility thing checking on his jizz, as he put it.

“I go, ‘Well, that’s not what he told me. He told me that he broke up with her and it was crazy that she wanted to have kids,'” the “America’s Got Talent” judge added.

However, the entire “jackhole” situation was apparently never that deep for either host since Mandel previously said the label was a “positive” for him.

Plus, Cohen revealed the pair had joked about the situation in their DMs. Getty Images

“I was a jackhole, I’m a jackhloe on ‘Watch What Happens’ – Andy Cohen said I’m a jackhole, [and] I think that’s positive,” he said on “The Viall Files” podcast in May 2023.

Plus, Cohen revealed on “Andy Cohen Live” that Mandel made a joke about the insult in their DMs that June.

“He DM’d me and said, ‘You’re making amazing TV. I was honored to be your jackhole,'” the Bravo exec said, per “Entertainment Tonight.”

“I loved that and I DM’d him back and I said, ‘Howie, being in a feud with you … was my honor,’ with a bunch of hearts.”

Sandoval was caught cheating on Ariana Madix with their “Vandperump Rules” co-star Raquel Leviss in March 2023. Howie Mandel Does Stuff/Youtube

Sandoval made headlines in March 2023 for cheating on his then-girlfriend and “Vanderpump Rules” co-star, Ariana Madix, with Leviss, 29.

Afterward, both he and Leviss apologized to Madix, and the former beauty pageant contestant subsequently checked into a facility to work on her mental health.

Madix, 38, has since moved on with fitness trainer Daniel Wai.