Bob Barker, the suave television game show host most famous for his 35-year stint as the face of “The Price is Right,” died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99 years old.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” publicist Roger Neal said in a statement Saturday.
CBS, the network that airs the famous gameshow, also lamented the loss of Barker.
“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’,” the company said in a statement. “Daytime television has lost one of its most iconic stars.”
Barker started his half-century television career hosting “Truth or Consequences” before leaving for “The Price is Right” in 1972, taking over a languishing show that had bounced between two networks before landing on CBS.
A scion of daytime television, Barker came from modest circumstances in Darrington, Washington. He grew up on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota after his father died during his childhood.
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