Howie Mandel had trouble watching Ukrainian ‘America’s Got Talent’ act

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fell multiple times from dangerous heights on the “America’s Got Talent” stage, famously OCD judge Howie Mandel nearly had a nervous breakdown. “The tension in the room and the fear … I remember saying, ‘I can’t watch this,'” he told The Post of the balancing act from the female troupe, who call themselves Three G.“These are three young people who have left a war-torn country where their life is in jeopardy and their family’s life and their future.”The women — who appeared on “AGT’s” Season 18 premiere last week — kept picking themselves back up and trying again — which was an inspiration to Mandel.“They will risk everything and you feel it through tears and pain and injury just to make a better life maybe in a different place for themselves and you sense that on the stage,” he said.The audacious acrobats are still in the running — after Mandel and fellow judges Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, and Heidi Klum voted to keep them in the competition.The 67-year-old Canadian native — who made his debut on “AGT” in 2009 — said contestants take the plunge, knowing they can benefit from the exposure they gain through the NBC series.“It’s not just a silly talent show.

It is life-changing,” he explained. “If you go down the Vegas strip now, I don’t think there’s a billboard alive that doesn’t have some connection in some way to ‘America’s Got Talent.'” What happens on the “AGT” stage stays on the Vegas strip and Mandel named ventriloquist Terry Fator, magician Mat Franco, and hip hop dance crew Jabbawockeez as just some of the show’s success stories who currently have shows in Sin City.However, he does admit that some of the competitors this season — like the man who came all the way from Japan and landed a remote-controlled.