While recording the most recent edition of America’s Got Talent on Wednesday, September 13, Sofia Vergara participated in a lie-detector exam, and the judges made the most of the chance. She wore an arm cuff to track her vital signs and sat in an unusual chair that was shaped like a stack of tater tots.
Terry Crews revealed the “tot seat”—which is a heated seat constructed of tater tots—and Simon Cowell offered up Vergara when Crews asked if any of the judges would like to participate. The judges asked her a number of questions, including one by Howie Mandel that didn’t turn out as expected.
He asked her if there’s anyone in the audience that she’s interested in – referring to the fact that she’s now single for the first time in nearly 10 years. Unfortunately for Mandel – and the audience – she refused to answer the question and, instead, took the arm cuff off and walked back to her seat at the judge’s table.
Howie Mandel is receiving a lot of backlash online as a result of his question, especially since it comes just a few weeks after he made a similar joke about her being single. It happened last month when Brynn Cummings (a 12-year-old mentalist and ventriloquist) was looking for an eligible bachelor for her puppet.