Celebrities Hospitalized – Howie Mandel and Mariska Hargitay

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, January 13, 2009

TV host Howie Mandel was hospitalized Monday with an irregular heartbeat, but his condition was not believed to be serious.

“Doctors expect him to be released and back to work [Tuesday],” rep Lewis Kay says.

“He did not have a heart attack,” adds Kay, refuting reports.

The Deal Or No Deal host, 53, was in Toronto to shoot his new NBC show Howie Do It.

Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay has a partially collapsed lung, but won’t miss any work, according to her rep.

“Mariska Hargitay has been sidelined with a pneumothorax (a partially collapsed lung),” the rep says.

In spite of her condition, the 44-year-old actress “will appear in all episodes for the rest of the season of Law & Order: SVU,” the rep says.

According to a source, the actress has been on vacation and her injury did not occur on the set of her show.

Hargitay was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama, but did not attend Sunday’s ceremony.

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