TORONTO (AP) - Howie Mandel has been hospitalized in Canada with
an irregular heartbeat.

A spokesman for the 53-year-old comedian and game show host says
Mandel was in Toronto taping his new show "Howie Do It!" Monday
when he was taken to a hospital.

Publicist Lewis Kay says in a written statement that Mandel is "being monitored for an irregular heartbeat but doctors expect him to be released and back to work tomorrow. He did not have a heart attack."

Mandel hosts the hourlong NBC game show "Deal or No Deal." "Howie Do It!" his new hidden-camera prank show, premiered last week.