The British tabs called it: Former Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel will be replacing David Hasselhoff at the judge’s table on America’s Got Talent, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed on Sunday morning at NBC’s Television Critics Association panel.

The germaphobic star will join stars Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne when the show returns for a fifth season this summer. Last Wednesday, Hasselhoff announced his departure from the reality competition, along with plans to start his own TV show.

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Howie Mandel will release his memor, Here’s The Deal: Don’t Touch Me, from Bantam Dell Books in December.

The tell-all autobiography promises to reveal “never-before-discussed” details about the germaphobe actor’s lifelong struggle with ADHD and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Despite online reports that he might have suffered a heart attack in Toronto late Monday, Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel, 53, has been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat and is expected to fully recover. Read the rest of this entry »