A publicist says the enduring and dapper game show host Bob Barker has died at his home in Los Angeles.
FILE - Legendary game show host Bob Barker, 83, waves goodbye as he tapes his final episode of"The Price Is Right," in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Barker signed off from 35 years on the game show and 50 years in daytime TV in the same low-key, genial fashion that made him one of daytime TV's biggest stars.
Barker retired in June 2007, telling his studio audience: “I thank you, thank you, thank you for inviting me into your home for more than 50 years.” Meanwhile, he began hosting a resurrected version of"The Price Is Right" in 1972. It would become TV's longest-running game show and the last on a broadcast network of what in TV's early days had numbered dozens.
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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