Posted on 08/27/2023 9:51:59 AM PDT by Morgana
There are new details in the wake of the recent passing of legendary television host Bob Barker.
Not long after confirming the Price Is Right icon had died at the age of 99 on Saturday, his longtime publicist Roger Neal announced that there will not be a funeral or a memorial service, according to Entertainment Tonight.
The decision was made not to have any public services at the request of Barker himself.
Neal went on to reveal that the game show host will be laid to rest next to his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.
He passed from natural causes in his longtime Hollywood Hills home earlier in the day.
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, obtained by NBC News.
Neal served as Barker's publicist from 1987 to 1994, and then again in 2020.
Following the confirmation of his death, flowers were placed on his star along the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
Barker's girlfriend Nancy Burnet, went public to say how she was 'so proud of the trailblazing work' they 'did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry and including working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally.'
'We were great friends over these 40 yrs. He will be missed,' his partner, 79, said in her own statement, obtained by People.
The Darrington, Washington native was the longtime host of the game show The Price Is Right, beginning in 1972.
The show, which had been on air since the 1950s and was in decline, was revitalized by Barker, who was the face of the program until 2007.
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Tell the Truth, or there will be Consequences.
Sorry to hear that. Glad you have her with you. May your pain be tolerable.
I missed my husband’s death in June in hospice, not at home. I regret it.
Well, to tell you the truth. YOU CAN’T STAND THE TRUTH! ;-))
I guess that's the curse of outliving your contemporaries.
It reminds me of Normon Lloyd's passing. I remember reading stories of how Nolan was the hit at all the parties, regaling people with stories of his time with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and other contemporaries. But when he finally passed at 106, there wasn't anyone close left to attend.
-PJ
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