Barker died Saturday morning, according to publicist Roger Neal.
In a 1996 interview with The Associated Press, Barker recalled receiving the news that he had been hired: “I know exactly where I was, I know exactly how I felt: I hung up the phone and said to my wife, ’Dorothy Jo, I got it!”’
“I have grown old in your service,” the silver-haired, perennially tanned Barker joked on a prime-time television retrospective in the mid-’90s.Article content 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.Article content
As a TV personality, Barker retained a touch of the old school _ for instance, no wireless microphone for him. Like the mic itself, the mic cord served him well as a prop, insouciantly flicked and finessed. “I am so proud of the trailblazing work Barker and I 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,” said Nancy Burnet, his longtime friend and caretaker, in a statement. Burnet is now also the co-executor of Barker’s estate.
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