Howie Mandel Says He 'Didn't Mean to Embarrass Anybody' After Apologizing to Kelly Ripa for On-Air Moment

Howie Mandel is sharing more about his viral exchange with Kelly Ripa on Live with Kelly and Mark

NEED TO KNOW

• During a March 31 appearance on Hot Mics with Billy Bush, Mandel said he "didn't mean to embarrass anybody" after Ripa and Mark Consuelos commented on his appearance

• "I hope it ends soon because I didn't mean to cause any disruption," he said of attention on the interaction

Howie Mandel"didn't mean to embarrass anybody" after apologizing toKelly Ripaover their awkward on-airexchange.

The comedian, 70, appeared on a Tuesday, March 31 segment ofHot Mics with Billy Bush, in which he reflected on the aftermath of his recent viralLive with Kelly and Markmoment and apology video.

During the March 23 episode of Ripa andMark Consuelos' daytime talk show, Mandel had an awkward exchange with the hosts, who complimented Mandel's appearance and told him he looked "great" after discussing his age. Mandel argued that the compliment didn't "mean anything" as it came with a "caveat." Days later, he posted a video apologizing to Ripa and explaining that the comment was "meant as a joke."

Now, Mandel said he has regrets about sharing the Instagram post, adding that he "didn't mean to cause any disruption."

"Obviously I told a joke that didn't land well," Mandel said, as he appeared onHot Micswearing a new hairstyle and T-shirt of himself as a child.

He added, "Comedians always say, 'If you can make one person laugh, you're doing the job.' But apparently that's not enough... I'm reading and there's no stopping it and I don't understand. I tried to stop it. I tried to apologize. I agreed with people. I do."

Mandel then said he didn't "know" who got offended by the on-air moment, despite "reading the articles" online. "If somebody is offended, if somebody feels that I did wrong, then I apologize. I don't believe in apologizing but I said, as I said in that post — which, I kind of regret making the post," he said, before Bush asked him why.

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"Because I don't think you should apologize for a joke," Mandel said. "And I do agree. People are saying it wherever I go now, I do think I look good. I don't even think the caveat is for 70. I just think I look good."

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As Mandel put it, up until "a couple weeks ago," he didn't "really focus" on his appearance. "I feel bad," he said. "I don't know what's going on and I don't know when this will end. And I hope it ends soon because I didn't mean to cause any disruption. I didn't mean to embarrass anybody."

After Bush questioned the famously bald comedian about the "hair on your head" at the end of their discussion, Mandel jokingly sat in silence before storming out of the podcast studio and slamming the door on his way out.

In his apology video, uploaded on Saturday, March 28, the star said he doesn't think a comedian "needs to apologize for a joke" and that it's "hard" for him to do so publicly.

After apologizing to Ripa, Mandel called her "absolutely right." A few comedian friends sounded off about the ordeal in the comment section,as didLive with Kelly and Markexecutive producerMichael Gelman, who commented that Mandel indeed looks great "for your age."

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Country Singer Tanner Usrey Arrested for Alleged DWI and Drug Possession in Texas

Country singer Tanner Usrey was arrested on Monday, March 30 in Collin County

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• According to jail records, he was charged with DWI (driving while intoxicated) and two drug possession charges

• The DWI is his second offense

Country and southern rock singerTanner Usreyhas been arrested and charged for driving under the influence.

The "Take Me Home" singer, 32, was booked on Monday, March 30 in Collin County, Texas by the McKinney Police Department,according to Collin County jail records. He was released the same day.

Per the booking information, Usrey was charged with DWI (driving while intoxicated) and two drug possession charges.

The jail records also noted that the DWI is his second offense.

A rep for Usrey did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. PEOPLE has also reached out to the McKinney Police Department for further information on the arrest.

The Texas native released his debut albumCrossing Linesin 2023. Two years later, in 2025, he released his sophomore recordThese Days.

On April 11, Usrey is scheduled to play the Montgomery County Fair in Conroe, Texas. He will also play the Fiesta Oyster Bake in San Antonio, Texas on April 17 and the Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival on April 23 in Stephenville, Texas. On May 2, he'll play Kid Rock's Rock the Country in Belville, Texas.

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Usrey'slast Instagram postwas a clip of him performing his song "Smoke in the Air" — which was featured on his last studio album — on March 27.

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In July of last year, Usrey spoke withRolling StoneaboutThese Daysand said it was an album about reflection and growing up.

"It's about heartbreak, as usual, but the overall theme is more mature than what I've been writing about," he said.

Usrey added, "It's about counting the little wins, and that's why I named itThese Days. I want to appreciate every little moment, and every day that I make it through, and everybody else makes it through. It's not all self-destruction anymore, it's about real stuff."

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' prison release date moved up again as appeal hearing approaches

The countdown toSean Combs' prison release date just got shorter.

The rapper known as Diddy, who has beenserving a 50-month sentencefor prostitution-related charges, is now scheduled to be freed 10 days earlier than expected, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records accessed byEntertainment Weekly. The adjustment to the music mogul's release date comes just weeks after a previous change shaved over a month off his sentence.

Combs is now scheduled for release on April 15, 2028. His prison sentence was previously set to end on April 25, 2028.

The release date has fluctuated several times since his 2025 conviction: Combs was originally slated for release on May 8, 2028, before the date was pushed back to June 4 and then moved up to April 25.

Representatives for Combs didn't immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

The latest update arrives just one week before Combs' legal team heads to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on April 9, to present their oral argument. Last December, the rapper's attorneysformally appealed his conviction and sentence, arguing that the sexual encounters at the center of the case were consensual and that the trial judge imposed an overly harsh sentence.

On Feb. 20, federal prosecutors urged an appellate court to uphold both Combs' conviction and sentence, arguing that Combs was allegedly a repeat and flagrant offender who used violence and threats to commit his crimes, per court documents obtained byPEOPLE.

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Combs was convicted last summer following a high-profile federal trial in New York. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York accused Combs of leading a criminal enterprise that "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct,"according to the indictment. Combs pleaded not guilty and has denied all of the allegations against him.

The music mogul wasultimately found guiltyof two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, a verdict that was widely seen as a legal victory for the rapper, as he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have seen him sentenced to life in prison.

At sentencing, Judge Arun Subramanian said he "rejects the defense's attempt to characterize what happened here as merely intimate, consensual experiences, or just a sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll story."

He said to Combs, "You abused the power and control that you had over the lives of women you professed to love dearly. You abused them physically, emotionally, and psychologically. And you used that abuse to get your way, especially when it came to freak-offs and hotel nights."

On Oct. 3, 2025, Combs was sentenced to 50 months (just over four years) in prison, fined $500,000, and ordered five years of supervised release once he leaves prison. He has been serving time at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security prison located in New Jersey, since late October. Combs has been imprisoned since his September 2024 arrest.

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3 women arrested for refusing to pay for extra bags on Frontier flight

Three women are facing criminal charges after officials said they refused to pay for extra carry-on bags, sparking their arrest and a nearly hour-long flight delay at the Miami International Airport.

Nafisa Dockery, 30, Dionjana Cochran, 21, and Davana Cochran, 26, were escorted off aFrontier Airlinesplane and arrested on Monday, March 30, an arrest warrant shows.

All three woman are charged with trespassing on property after a warning and resisting an officer without violence. Dockery was also charged with battery, after authorities said she allegedly spit on someone during the incident.

According to the affidavit obtained by USA TODAY, the women were boarding a flight to Philadelphia when a Frontier employee noticed they had only paid for one carry-on piece of luggage, but had two with them.

When the employee asked the trio to step aside and pay for their extra bag, a verbal confrontation began, the affidavit continues, and the employee told the women if they did not pay for their bags, they would not be permitted to board.

The trio then proceeded past a restricted door without authorization, the affidavit shows, and boarded the plane.

Law enforcement arrived, boarded the plane and escorted all three women off. At some point as they walked off the plane, Dockery allegedly spit on a woman, officials reported.

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A Frontier spokesperson deferred all questions to Miami-Dade police.

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Authorities arrested all three women and transported the trio to the Miami-Dade county jail.

Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office records showed Dionjana Cochran and Davana Cochran remained jailed on Wednesday, April 1, being held on $4,000 and $2,000 bonds, respectively. Dockery was not listed as an inmate.

Court documents show the women pleaded not guilty to the charges this week.

USA TODAY has reached out to the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office, who records show were appointed to represent all three women.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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Trump administration cannot alter homelessness funding conditions, US court rules

By Nate Raymond

BOSTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to impose new restrictions on billions of dollars in grant funding used to provide permanent housing ‌and other services to homeless people.

A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to ‌put on hold a ruling by U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Providence, Rhode Island, that had blocked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ​from changing the criteria used to distribute grant funding from the Continuum of Care program.

U.S. Circuit Judge Julie Rikelman, who like the other appellate judges was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, said a ruling to the contrary would be "destabilizing and disastrous" for funding recipients, leading to the shuttering of housing organizations and people losing their housing.

"In sum, the record paints a disturbing picture of the harms ‌that would flow to the plaintiffs, their constituents, ⁠and the public from issuing a stay," she wrote.

HUD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by Democratic officials in 20 states and Washington, D.C., ⁠local governments and nonprofit organizations.

Lawyers for some of the plaintiffs said that if the administration had prevailed, more than $2 billion worth of grant funding supporting 4,000 local housing coalitions could have become subject to HUD's new rules.

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"Because the appeals court refused to grant the federal government's motion ​to ​stay the injunction pending appeal, almost 200,000 people — many living with disabilities — ​will not be displaced from stable housing," Jill ‌Habig, the head of the legal group the Public Rights Project, said in a statement.

'HOUSING-FIRST' APPROACH

At issue was the Continuum of Care program, which has provided resources since 1987 for states, local governments and nonprofits to deliver support services to homeless people, with a focus on veterans, families, and people with disabilities.

The program has long been based on a "housing-first" approach to combating homelessness, which prioritizes placing people into permanent housing without preconditions such as sobriety and employment. Along with housing, the grants fund childcare, job training, ‌mental health counseling and transportation services.

The Trump administration has criticized the housing-first approach, ​and HUD in November said it was overhauling the grant program to ​focus on transitional housing initiatives with work requirements and ​other conditions.

McElroy in December concluded HUD's efforts conflicted with the mandates of a federal law that provides ‌money for homeless shelter programs. She cited Congress' prioritization of ​providing funding for stable and permanent ​housing.

After Congress passed a spending bill in February that mandated HUD renew Continuum of Care projects and issue new grant awards, the administration asked McElroy to set aside her injunction, allowing some of the roughly $4 billion for the program ​to become subject to HUD's new rules.

But ‌McElroy declined to do so, citing the need to protect funding recipients from "upheaval and service gaps." The administration ​then appealed, citing the new law, which the plaintiffs said never blessed HUD's approach to grant funding.

(Reporting by ​Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Deepa Babington)

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'Real Housewives' alum Jen Shah admits she 'was wrong' in first interview since prison release

Former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah is taking responsibility in her first interview since her December release from federal prison.

"I was wrong," Shah toldPeople Magazine in an interviewreleased on Tuesday. "I made wrong decisions. I should have done things differently. I should have been more diligent. And I'm deeply remorseful and sorry for my actions and for my part. I take full responsibility."

Shah, 52, was released in December fromFederal Prison CampBryan in Texas, more than four years early from her 6½-year prison sentence in 2023. She served alongside other famous inmates,disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth HolmesandGhislaine Maxwell.

The former reality star was arrested by the FBI in March 2021 —while cameras were rolling for the Bravo series — on charges in connection with allegedly running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that preyed on the elderly.

While filming the show, Shah insisted on her innocence, saying "the only thing I'm guilty of is being Shah-mazing" in the opening credits for the show's second season.

In the weeks leading to her trial date, when her legal team received a trove of evidence from prosecutors, Shah told People Magazine that things changed.

"It was like a train hit," she said. "That was the first time I saw all of it — the communications, the interviews, the witnesses."

"I saw for the first time that there were people who were hurt. That there were actual victims as a result of this conspiracy," she added. "I had never seen anything with my own eyes. That changed things for me."

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Shah pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with the scheme in 2022 and wassentenced to 78 months in federal prisonthe following year.

She served time in a minimum-security all-women's federal prison camp that housed inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes in dormitory-style quarters.

"When I walked in, it took my breath away," Shah said through tears. "You hear people say it's 'Camp Cupcake' — it's not. It's a prison. I just thought, 'This cannot be where I'm going to be every day.'"

Shah was also ordered in 2023 to forfeit $6,500,000 and dozens of luxury items as part of restitution. She told People she is now working to pay off her restitution.

"I'm sorry," she told People. "I'm accepting responsibility, and I've made it my mission to make sure that people are paid back."

The mother of two is among a long list of Bravo stars accused of criminality.

In 2014, "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice and her husband, Joe Giudice, were sentenced to federal prison afterpleading guilty to fraud charges.

"Real Housewives of Potomac" star Karen Huger — who is known by fans as the "Grand Dame" — served a one-year sentence at a Maryland prison for drunk driving. She wasreleased from prisonin September.

Perhaps the most notorious crime committed by a Bravo star was committed by Tom Girardi, the husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne. Girardi wassentenced to seven years and three monthsin prison for embezzling millions of dollars from former clients. His victims included families of the 189 people who died in the 2018 Lion Air crash.

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Easter Holiday Weekend Weather Forecast: Wet East, Chilly Midwest, Nice West

Easter week is here, and this weekend's forecast has a pronounced split in the nation's weather as a storm system tracks across the eastern half of the country.

Let's break down the forecast each day this weekend to help you plan your holiday activities.

Saturday

-Where the weather looks great: In the West from the Rockies to the West Coast, it will be sunny in most areas with temperatures near or above average, and not nearly as hot asthe recent record heat wave.

-Where you'll need a jacket: Unfortunately, rain and thunderstorms are expected Saturday from the Great Lakes to eastern Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley. Some thunderstorms could be strong or severe with heavy rainfall, as well. In parts of the upper Midwest, snow is expected in the areas shown in blue or purple in the map below. And strong, chilly winds are expected in much of the Plains and upper Mississippi Valley behind a cold front.

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-Where it might be okay: We can't rule out a threat of some showers in parts of the East. But in most areas, they don't seem likely enough to postpone any Easter egg hunts, but it will turn wetter on Sunday. And while it will be breezy, it will also be much warmer than average in most of the East, with 70s and 80s as far north as parts of the mid-Atlantic.

(192-hours: Further beef up your forecast with our detailed, hour-by-hour breakdown for the next 8 days – only available on ourPremium Pro experience.)

Easter Sunday

-Fabulous holiday weather:Again, the West is the big winner on Sunday, with plenty of sunshine and temperatures generally warmer than average for the first Sunday in April, without the recent blistering heat.

-Rain jacket will be needed: Unfortunately, rain, perhaps with a clap of thunder, is likely in the East as a cold front slices through. It will also be quite windy with the front. Any sunrise Easter services planned outdoors in the Southeast may have to be moved indoors.

-A winter jacket needed: Sunday will be chilly and windy in the Midwest, with highs only in the 40s in the Great Lakes. Some snow showers may linger in parts of the western Great Lake snowbelts from northeast Minnesota into northern Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and western and northern Lower Michigan. Leave extra time to get to your Easter destination if traveling in these areas.

(FORECAST MAPS:Rain/Snow|Highs/Lows|Travel Planner)

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him onBluesky,X (formerly Twitter)andFacebook.

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