Post by billhammond on Aug 26, 2023 12:35:33 GMT -5
Excerpted from NY Daily News:
Longtime game show host Bob Barker has died. He was 99.
The former “The Price Is Right” host Barker died peacefully at home of natural causes on Saturday morning in L.A., his rep told TMZ.
For 35 years, Barker invited studio audience guests to “Come on down!” for a chance to win items ranging from automobiles to vacation packages. In 1982 — a decade after taking over the program — he began closing each show by reminding viewers to help control the pet population by having their dogs and cats spayed and neutered.
Prior to moving to CBS’s “The Price Is Right,” Barker spent nearly 20 years hosting the game show “Truth or Consequences.”
He wrote of both experiences in his 2009 memoir “Priceless Memories.” Barker returned to “The Price Is Right” to host an April Fool’s Day segment in 2015, then passed the reins back to comedian Drew Carey, who began hosting when his predecessor retired in June 2007.
Longtime game show host Bob Barker has died. He was 99.
The former “The Price Is Right” host Barker died peacefully at home of natural causes on Saturday morning in L.A., his rep told TMZ.
For 35 years, Barker invited studio audience guests to “Come on down!” for a chance to win items ranging from automobiles to vacation packages. In 1982 — a decade after taking over the program — he began closing each show by reminding viewers to help control the pet population by having their dogs and cats spayed and neutered.
Prior to moving to CBS’s “The Price Is Right,” Barker spent nearly 20 years hosting the game show “Truth or Consequences.”
He wrote of both experiences in his 2009 memoir “Priceless Memories.” Barker returned to “The Price Is Right” to host an April Fool’s Day segment in 2015, then passed the reins back to comedian Drew Carey, who began hosting when his predecessor retired in June 2007.
