Bob Barker, the longtime television host of The Price Is Right, has reportedly died at the age of 99.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” Barker’s publicist Roger Neal said in a statement today.
Barker had an iconic career in the television industry, hosting CBS’s The Price is Right for 35 years up until his retirement in 2007. Before to The Price is Right, Barker hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.
Throughout his career that spanned over 50 years, Barker garnered numerous awards including 19 Daytime Emmy awards.
Barker also won the Guinness World Record of television’s “Most Durable Performer” for his 3,524 consecutive performances of Truth or Consequences. He was also inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’s Hall of Fame, as well as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame.
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