Longtime Price Is Right game show host Bob Barker dies at 99

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Bob Barker, the longtime host of The Price is Rightgameshow and a vocal animal rights activist, has died at the age of 99.

Barker died of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles on Saturday morning, his publicist Roger Neal announced.

 

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” Mr Neal said in a statement.

Barker retired in 2007 after hosting the hit CBS game show since 1972.

“I was 48 and didn’t have any thoughts about the rest of my life. It was just another show I thought I would have fun with and be well paid for,” he told Entertainment Weekly.