(KTLA) – Bob Barker, the longtime host of the gameshow “The Price is Right,” has died at the age of 99.
Barker’s publicist Roger Neal confirmed his death to Nexstar on Saturday. Neal told Nexstar that Barker died “peacefully” at his Hollywood Hills home around 8 a.m. Pacific time.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,” Neal said in a statement included with his PR firm’s obituary of Barker.
In 1950, Barker and his wife Dorothy Jo Gideon moved to California where Barker landed his own radio show. It was on this show that Barker attracted the attention of game show producer Ralph Edwards, who picked Barker to host “Truth or…
Source link
