A publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of 'Truth or Consequences' and 'The Price Is Right,' has died at his home in Los Angeles. Barker was 99.
A publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of"Truth or Consequences" and"The Price Is Right," has died at his home in Los Angeles. Barker was 99.
Barker was working in radio in 1956 when producer Ralph Edwards invited him to audition as the new host of"Truth or Consequences," a game show in which audience members had to do wacky stunts -- the"consequence" -- if they failed to answer a question -- the"truth," which was always the silly punchline to a riddle no one was ever meant to furnish.
"I have grown old in your service," the silver-haired, perennially tanned Barker joked on a prime-time television retrospective in the mid-'90s. He well understood the attraction of"The Price Is Right," in which audience members -- invited to"Come on down!" to the stage -- competed for prizes by trying to guess their retail value.
His career longevity, he said, was the result of being content."I had the opportunity to do this type of show and I discovered I enjoyed it ... People who do something that they thoroughly enjoy and they started doing it when they're very young, I don't think they want to stop."
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