Robert William Barker is an American retired television game show host. He is known for hosting CBS’s The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history. He also hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1974. In 2007, he retired from hosting The Price is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television.
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Robert William Barker is an American retired television game show host. He is known for hosting CBS’s The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history. He also hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1974. Barker is one-eighth Sioux and spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. He met his future wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, at an Ella Fitzgerald concert while he was attending high school in Missouri, and they began dating when he was 15. After his wife died of lung cancer at age 57 in 1981, he became an advocate for animal rights and of animal rights activism, supporting groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 2007, he retired from hosting The Price is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television. He first appeared on the episode that aired on April 16, 2009, to promote his new autobiography, Priceless Memories. He appeared in the round-case round of Priceless memories on June 6, 2007, with the show airing twice on June 15, 2007 and June 16, 2007. He has three children, two sons and a daughter-in-law.
He currently lives in Florida with his wife Dorothy Jo and their three children. He was married to Dorothy Jo from 1945 until her death in 1981. He and his wife moved to California in 1950 in order to pursue a career in broadcasting, and he was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the next six years from Burbank. In 1971, Barker was tapped to host a pilot for NBC entitled Simon Says, which required him to interact with a giant computer called \”Simon\” in Let’s Make A Deal–style \”trades\”. The pilot was produced by Wesley J. Cox of DUNDAS Productions, and its theme was \”The Savers\”. There is at least one clip of the pilot on the video sharing website YouTube. On October 31, 1987, Barker did what other MCs never did then: renounced hair gray and began wearing his hair gray, which was his natural color by that time. On September 4, 1972, Barker began hosting the CBS revival of The PriceIsRight. On December 31, 1956, Barker continued with the program until 1974. He began hosting Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants from 1967 to 1987, giving him the distinction of being the long-serving host of these pageants. He retired from the show in 2006.
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