Howie Mandel is a Canadian actor, comedian and television personality, who has led a rather peaceful personal life, being married to Terry Mandel since 1980, thus celebrating 40 years of marriage this year. They have three children – Jackie Mandel is their eldest and, unlike his father, chose a rather different career and was not involved in show business.
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Wiki – Age, childhood and upbringing
Jackelyn Mandel was born on December 14, 1984 in Calabasas, California, United States, and has a brother Alex, born in 1989, and a sister Riley, born in 1992.
Jackie went to a local high school where she met her future husband, but more on that later. After graduating, Jackie enrolled at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from where she earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. Her education did not end there, as she later enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, from where she earned her Masters in Education.
Professor Jackie Mandel
Jackie chose a less popular career than her father; she is an elementary school teacher of primarily first and second graders, in schools in the Los Angeles area, and also works with kindergarten children.
Youtube channel
Additionally, Jackie is also popular on YouTube; she started her channel in 2015 and since then she has been posting videos that showcase her daily life. Titled Life With Jackie, it has attracted the attention of around 50,000 subscribers and its videos have been viewed over 12 million times. Her most popular videos feature her children, such as “Dancing Into Labor” and “Earthquake At Preschool”, among many others.
Private life
Jackie met her future husband in high school, but it was years later that they rekindled their friendship and began a romance.
Her husband is DJ Lex Larson, real name Alex Shultz; the couple married on July 22, 2013 in a ceremony held at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles, followed by a honeymoon in Greece. The couple have since welcomed two children, Abbey and Axel.
Jackie Mandel’s father, Howie Mandel
Born Howard Michael Mandel on November 29, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario Canada, of Polish Jewish ancestry, he also has Romanian roots – his distant cousin is Itzhak Perlman, a famous Israeli violinist.
He went to William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate, but was kicked out because he posed as a school official to hire a construction company to build an annex to the school. After that, he focused on his acting career.
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Before becoming a famous comedian and television personality, Howie made a fool of himself at the national comedy club, Yuk Yuk in Toronto. He became a regular at the club as the fans liked him; during his routine he would place a latex glove over his head and blow through his nose to inflate the glove and the latex fingers would come over his head like a cockscomb.
He then went to Los Angeles where he performed at the Comedy Store, and was hired as a regular performer. Shortly after, he made his first screen appearance on the television show “Make Me Laugh”, then opened for David Letterman on shows in the summer of 1979. He became the main face of CBC- TV, and in 1980, he got his first leading role in the movie “Gas”, alongside Susan Anspach and Donald Sutherland.
Access to notoriety
Howie rose to stardom in the early ’80s, thanks in large part to his role as Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the television series “St. Elsewhere,” appearing in 137 episodes of the hugely popular series.
During the 1980s he also provided the voice of Gizmo, a cute Gremlin in the 1984 film “Gremlins” and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch”, although the film was released in 1990. He played in several other projects in the 80s, including the films “A Fine Mess” (1986) and 1987’s “Walk Like a Man”.
Throughout the 90s, he focused more on his acting career, touring the United States with his routine, but also appearing in a number of television series, while providing the voice of several characters from animated series. . In addition, he also hosted his own “The Howie Mandel Show” (1998-1999), but it was in the 2000s that he reached his full potential.
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Starting with leading roles in a few films, including “Apocalypse III: Tribulation” (2000), “Hansel and Gretel” (2002), then in the TV movie “Crown Heights” (2004), among others. However, in 2005 he was named host of the American version of the popular show “Deal or No Deal”, and until 2019 he hosted more than 230 episodes of the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated series. This celebrated him as a television personality, and he was later named host of the Canadian version, hosting the show for its five episodes before it was canceled.
In 2010, Howie struck another deal that would benefit his television career, when he was chosen to replace David Hasselhoff as one of the judges on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” with Hasselhoff leaving the show. to focus on other projects, mainly a new TV series. Since then, Howie has become the judge with the longest tenure of any other judge or host, lasting 11 seasons so far.
Personal life, health issues, net worth
Howie led a stable life; he has been married to Terry Mandel since 1980, his high school sweetheart; the two met when they were 12 years old.
Howie has suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood, but wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood. He has spoken openly about his condition and takes medication to keep his disorder and all his ticks at bay. Additionally, Howie is an ADHD patient and works to raise awareness about ADHD in adults. He not only spoke about OCD and ADHD, but also wrote the book Here’s the Trouble: Don’t Touch Me, an in-depth autobiography, about his life with these particular conditions.
According to sources, Howie Mandel’s net worth was estimated at $40 million in mid-2020.
