Bob Barker is facing his final days terrified that he won’t be remembered as a beloved game show host and pioneering animal-rights activist! Instead, the ailing 94-year-old TV legend fears that he’ll be blasted as a sexual harasser. A top insider has told The National ENQUIRER that Bob is now spending his final days trying to make peace with the models who sued him during his heyday hosting “The Price Is Right.” With showbiz rocked by brave women coming forward with tales of Hollywood predators, a source says the repentant host “knows he doesn’t have much time left!”
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“Bob’s always admitted he made mistakes, that it was a different time back then,” said a close friend. “But he reads about
Bill Cosby,
Harvey Weinstein,
Morgan Freeman and other men who have been crushed under the weight of women coming forward about them — and he fears it could be his fate, too.”
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As earlier covered by The ENQUIRER, longtime fans of “The Price Is Right” were shocked when
Bob was slammed by a string of sexual harassment lawsuits in the ’90s. Dian Parkinson, one of the popular “Price Is Right” models dubbed “Barker’s Beauties,” stunned Hollywood with a 1994 lawsuit claiming they'd had a three-year affair — having to sleep with Bob to keep her job!
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Bob — whose wife of 36 years had passed away in 1981 — admitted to the affair, but claimed it was consensual. Dian later dropped the lawsuit. nut that didn’t mean Bob was out of hot water. Show model Holly Hallstrom sued him for wrongful termination in 1995, claiming she was fired for weight gain and not supporting Bob by denouncing Dian.
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Two other show models testified against Bob in Holly’s suit — and were also fired, along with production assistants. Now, said a pal, “Bob knows how the issue of sexual harassment and assault is front and center in the entertainment world these days...He knows he doesn’t have much time left, so he’s trying to contact these women and mend fences.”
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Some sources believe the lawsuits prompted execs to force Bob to retire in 2007 after 35 years on the show. Now, with his health failing, friends fear that Bob’s working overtime to set his life right. The 23-time Emmy winner has already suffered two strokes, and has taken two nasty falls in recent years that required hospitalization.
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“Bob sees his life in days and weeks instead of months and years now,” the friend says, “so he wants to get right with the world. He really hates the idea of people, especially these women, holding grudges against him — so he wants to get straight with them!”
“Bob’s always admitted he made mistakes, that it was a different time back then,” said a close friend. “But he reads about
Bill Cosby,
Harvey Weinstein,
Morgan Freeman and other men who have been crushed under the weight of women coming forward about them — and he fears it could be his fate, too.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
As earlier covered by The ENQUIRER, longtime fans of “The Price Is Right” were shocked when
Bob was slammed by a string of sexual harassment lawsuits in the ’90s. Dian Parkinson, one of the popular “Price Is Right” models dubbed “Barker’s Beauties,” stunned Hollywood with a 1994 lawsuit claiming they'd had a three-year affair — having to sleep with Bob to keep her job!
Bob — whose wife of 36 years had passed away in 1981 — admitted to the affair, but claimed it was consensual. Dian later dropped the lawsuit. nut that didn’t mean Bob was out of hot water. Show model Holly Hallstrom sued him for wrongful termination in 1995, claiming she was fired for weight gain and not supporting Bob by denouncing Dian.
Two other show models testified against Bob in Holly’s suit — and were also fired, along with production assistants. Now, said a pal, “Bob knows how the issue of sexual harassment and assault is front and center in the entertainment world these days...He knows he doesn’t have much time left, so he’s trying to contact these women and mend fences.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Some sources believe the lawsuits prompted execs to force Bob to retire in 2007 after 35 years on the show. Now, with his health failing, friends fear that Bob’s working overtime to set his life right. The 23-time Emmy winner has already suffered two strokes, and has taken two nasty falls in recent years that required hospitalization.
“Bob sees his life in days and weeks instead of months and years now,” the friend says, “so he wants to get right with the world. He really hates the idea of people, especially these women, holding grudges against him — so he wants to get straight with them!”
