Sofia Vergara surprisingly departed the America’s Got Talent stage following fellow choose Howie Mandel’s newest comment involving her relationship standing.
The 51-year-old Vergara, amid her divorce from actor Joe Manganiello, was seated on a throne constructed of large faux tater tots on the current episode of AGT since Sonic sponsors the present.
During this previous Wednesday’s episode, Vergara needed to take a lie detector check, which allowed Mandel to slide in one other of his jokes about her being single. It got here because the judges every requested Vergara a query for the lie detector to investigate.
One of her responses featured her saying “Yes” when Heidi Klum requested Vergara if fellow choose Simon Cowell was “similar to a candy little pet canine.” However, that was registered as a lie when the outcomes got.
She additionally mentioned that AGT was a preferable job for her in comparison with engaged on the sitcom Modern Family, which got here again as true.
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“Do you see anyone within the viewers tonight that you simply’re involved in?” Mandel requested whereas she was nonetheless on stage.
Mandel’s comment led to loads of excited cheering from viewers members and a stunned look from Vergara, but it surely seems she was okay with it. However, she wasn’t about to let the lie detector analyze a response for that.
“That’s it,” she mentioned as she smiled, took off the lie detector cuff, and left the stage to return to her seat with the opposite judges.
“I believe she’s accomplished,” host Terry Crews mentioned through the spotlight second proven within the video beneath.
Mandel beforehand joked about Sofia’s divorce scenario with a younger contestant after she’d completed her ventriloquism and mentalist act. As Monsters and Critics reported, the contestant had requested choose Heidi Klum for help together with her act as she tried to discover a match for her puppet from the viewers.
During the post-performance feedback from judges, Mandel took intention at Vergara with a joke, pretending it was a suggestion for the on-stage expertise.
“If I’ve one phrase of recommendation…If you’re in search of eligible bachelors, you need to’ve talked to Sofia as a result of she’s available in the market proper now,” Mandel instructed the contestant.
Vergara was additionally okay with that, however Mandel later known as it “open season” so far as him making jokes about her scenario because of the on-line backlash he’d obtained from critics.
Vergara’s divorce began a number of months in the past
Mandel’s remarks seek advice from Vergara being single after she and her husband, 46-year-old actor Joe Manganiello, filed for divorce in July. The couple had been married since 2015 after assembly the 12 months earlier than. They’d dated for simply six months earlier than getting engaged.
Before assembly Manganiello, Vergara was married again in 1991 to her highschool boyfriend, Joe Gonzalez. They had one son collectively, Manolo, that very same 12 months. Two years later, Vergara and Gonzalez divorced.
It took over 20 years to search out one other man she wished to marry. Along the best way, she’d been engaged to Nick Loeb in 2012, however they known as issues off in 2014.
Now, Vergara is amid her second divorce. With Manganiello not too long ago seen out and about with a younger actress after a health club session, rumors have began swirling that he’s already courting somebody new.
While the divorce is but to be finalized, it appears Vergara’s buddy Howie Mandel is making an attempt to assist her discover love once more, even when that assist comes with jokes on TV.
America’s Got Talent airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.
