Bob Barker, former ‘Price is Right’ host, dead at 99
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Longtime "The Price is Right" host Bob Barker has died at age 99, his longtime publicist announced Saturday.
The 19-time Emmy-winning, legendary television and game show host taped his last The Price is Right show on June 6, 2007, but he would make three surprise return visits to the show.
In addition to hosting the Price is Right, Barker made a memorable cameo in the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy, Happy Gilmore.
Barker was also a lifetime lover of animals and became a vegetarian, with the help of his wife Dorothy Jo, who passed in 1981.
CBS, "The Price is Right's" home network, released a statement saying:
"We lost a beloved member of the CBS family today with the passing of Bob Barker. During his 35 years as host of THE PRICE IS RIGHT, Bob made countless people’s dreams come true and everyone feel like a winner when they were called to 'come on down.' In addition to his legendary 50-year career in broadcasting, Bob will be remembered as a dedicated animal rights activist. Daytime television has lost one of its most iconic stars."
Robert William Barker was born on December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington, and grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission South Dakota.
