Howie Mandel released after overnight hospital stay

Canadian comedian Howie Mandel was released from a Toronto hospital on Tuesday after being rushed there the night before suffering from an irregular heartbeat.

The host of the TV game showDeal or No Dealcollapsed in his hotel room Monday evening, according to his mother, Evy Mandel.

The Toronto-born comic isback inthe city shooting a new hidden camera showcalled HowieDo It.

A spokesman forMandel emphasized thatthe comic did not suffer a heart attack, as some media outlets had reported.

"Howie is in the hospital being monitored for an irregular heartbeat but doctors expect him to be released and back to work [Tuesday]," Lewis Kay said ina statement Monday night.

Kay revised his statement on Tuesday and said Mandel would return to filming Wednesday.

Toronto Police Staff Sgt. Devin Kealey told the Canadian Press that police were called to a downtown hotel in response to a male with a "medical condition shortly after 7 p.m. Monday."

"All I can tell you was that he was conscious and breathing and that he was obviously talking to the officers," Kealey said.

Mandel was taken toSt. Michael's Hospital.

Mandel, 53, also starred on TV's St. Elsewherein the 1980s.