{"id":673466,"date":"2026-09-05T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673466\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:15:13","slug":"howie-mandel-offers-simon-cowell-health-update-amid-americas-got-talent-absence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673466\/","title":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel offers Simon Cowell health update amid America\u2019s Got Talent absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Cowell<\/a>‘s recent back surgery<\/a> was a “success”, according to his fellow America’s Got Talent<\/a> judge Howie Mandel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cowell, 66, has undergone a series of operations in recent years after he broke his back in an electric bike accident in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to E! News<\/a> on Thursday, September 3, 70-year-old Mandel revealed that at that point Cowell was “just hours out of surgery”.<\/p>\n

He added: “I heard that it was a success, everything’s okay.”<\/p>\n

Kenan Thompson filled in for Cowell on the talent show this week, with Heidi Klum set to take his place next week.<\/p>\n

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‘America’s Got Talent’ judges Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel together in 2022 (Vivien Killilea\/Getty Images for Cold Stone Creamery)<\/p>\n

Mandel joked that he hadn’t yet spoken to Cowell because: “I don’t know that, this close to surgery, if this is the first thing you need to see.”<\/p>\n

The comedian added that he “can’t wait to see him and visit him and give him my best wishes.”<\/p>\n

Cowell’s injuries stopped him from appearing in the 2020 season<\/a> of Britain’s Got Talent. He was temporarily replaced by the show’s previous winner Ashley Banjo.<\/p>\n

After he recovered, Cowell said he was “lucky to survive” the ordeal. He told <\/a>OK!<\/a> magazine in 2022: “I didn’t talk about it too much at the time. I kept a lot back. It was a lot worse than people thought. I had a lot of long-term nerve damage as well.”<\/p>\n

He admitted: “If there was one good thing about lockdown, it was that it gave me the time to heal because I wasn’t working on a TV show. I was able to walk a lot and strengthen my legs.”<\/p>\n

In 2022, the TV personality had another e-bike crash that saw him hospitalized with a broken arm<\/a>, badly bruised cheek and possible concussion. However, the injuries were not as serious as his first accident and he was released from the hospital that same day.<\/p>\n

Cowell is known for his brutally honest judging style <\/a>on reality competitions like AGT, The X Factor and American Idol. He is also hailed as a successful talent scout, <\/a>having put together massive acts like One Direction and Fifth Harmony.<\/p>\n

AGT’s current season 21 marks Cowell’s eleventh season as a judge on the show, although he has been an executive producer since the show’s creation in 2006.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Terry Crews, the show usually features Cowell alongside fellow judges Sof\u00eda Vergara, Howie Mandel and Mel B.<\/a><\/p>\n

The final competition and the finale episode will air September 22 and 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell‘s recent back surgery was a “success”, according to his fellow America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[284673,18,117,101249,19,17,284674,12192,128],"class_list":["post-673466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cowell","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-howie-mandel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mandel","tag-simon-cowell","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117216971926897816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}