Bob Barker, former longtime host of 'The Price Is Right', dead at 99

[of_corpse_not]

Bob Barker dead at 99

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...hold-rcna42292

RIP to an icon

[Angiebla]

Bob Barker dead at 99

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...hold-rcna42292

RIP to an icon

He was so charismatic, the show wasnt the same after he left.

[raisedbywolves]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/enter...ath/index.html

Bob Barker, the ?Price Is Right? host whose silky-smooth command, impish sense of humor and advocacy for animal welfare issues made him a beloved fixture on television for more than 35 years, has died. He was 99.

The news was confirmed by his representative Roger Neal. No cause of death was provided

Barker, who was part Native American, was born Robert William Barker in Mission, South Dakota, a town of 200 people on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, on December 12, 1923. He recalled playing basketball, fishing on the local reservoir and excelling as a student there. His mother was a teacher, and his father was a utility worker.

He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, on a basketball scholarship but dropped out two years later to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, after seeing a photograph of a naval aviator decked out in his formal dress whites.

“I thought, ‘If I’m going to go to war, I want to go looking like that guy,’” he told CNN in 2013. “I’d never been up in an airplane. I had certainly not thought about what was involved in landing one on a carrier, and I had never even seen the ocean. But I loved that picture.”

He never made it to combat. The war ended before he could be assigned to a seagoing unit, so instead he went back to Drury and started to work in radio writing news and doing a five-minute sportscast for Springfield radio station KTTS. Eventually, he had his own radio show in Los Angeles, “The Bob Barker Show.”

It was then that he got his television break. Ralph Edwards, the producer and host of “Truth or Consequences,” was looking for an emcee for a new daytime version of the TV show – a long-running hit that Edwards had begun on radio. Edwards heard Barker and hired him for the job.

[Bewitchingstorm]

I spent many summer days in my youth watching him. RIP.

[TupelosDaddy]

Imagine if this had been spinning the wheel for the showcase, getting to 99 while not earning you an extra 100 bucks (in the 80s anyway I think it is 1000 now) it would?ve been hard for other contestants to beat you without going over, so I would say he got a place in the showcase showdown. I just hope that in the hereafter he did not pass the first showcase and getting the crappier showcase where all you get is a camper trailer and a trip to Wilmington Delaware

[Boston Babe 73]

I loved him and I loved that he was such a champion for animals. He lived a GOOD long life. Also, my favorite scene with him

[SuchAClassicGirl]

I told my husband that Barker died the other day. He looked at me and said "oh no, what from." I said "being 99."

[Boston Babe 73]

I told my husband that Barker died the other day. He looked at me and said "oh no, what from." I said "being 99."

[Bewitchingstorm]

I told my husband that Barker died the other day. He looked at me and said "oh no, what from." I said "being 99."

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