Former ‘Price Is Right’ Model Reveals the ‘Truth’ About Working With Bob Barker

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...211845122.html

The Price Is Right famously called the models who presented the show’s prizes “Barker’s Beauties” — but behind the scenes, some of them wanted nothing to do with Bob Barker. Models and former crew members are accusing the late host of fostering a hostile work environment, sexual harassment and discrimination over his 35 years on […]

[Dude111]

Bobby was the best!!

[Mario500]

"Bob Barker’s Rep Denies Late 'The Price Is Right' Host’s Involvement in Past Harassment Claims" (article)

The late Bob Barker’s rep is denying recent allegations of harassment on The Price Is Right set.

[Dude111]

Hm why dont they just come clean now??

It doesnt matter anyway...

[AMackII]

Wonder how Drew Carey expressed his concerns and his responses about E!’s Dirty Rotten Scandal special feature the TPIR Behind the Scene behavior of the his late predecessor

[Mario500]

Originally Posted by AMackII

Wonder how Drew Carey expressed his concerns and his responses about E!’s Dirty Rotten Scandal special feature the TPIR Behind the Scene behavior of the his late predecessor

(suggestion of an alternative to the word "behavior" in this context: accusations)

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Bob Barker bombshell: Former 'Price Is Right' model Holly Hallstrom claims she was fired for refusing to commit 'felony perjury' for late TV host

Story by Brianna Sainez



Former Price Is Right model Holly Hallstrom claimed she was pushed into "early retirement" after being fired from the show for not committing what she believed to be "felony perjury" in support of late host Bob Barker.

Hallstrom, who left the game show in 1995 after 18 years, explained she was initially told she was being let go due to her weight, but she believed it was because she refused to defend Barker against a sexual harassment lawsuit.

Former 'Price Is Right' Model Refused to Testify in Bob Barker Sexual Harassment Case



"I wanted nothing to do with it," Hallstrom said during the E! docuseries Dirty Rotten Scandals, which premiered earlier this month.

Hallstrom refused to defend the host against claims made by Dian Parkinson, who had an affair with Barker and subsequently sued him for sexual harassment. Following the allegations, Hallstrom explained that employees were being asked to testify under oath about working conditions behind the scenes.

"Every time you went to the studio, you had to sit with lawyers who all they wanted to hear was all the bad stuff about Dian and how Bob could not have possibly sexually harassed Dian," she told producers.



Holly Hallstrom Didn't Want to Commit 'Felony Perjury'

"I was the only one that was asked to give a deposition and did not," the former model alleged. "I didn't want to commit felony perjury, which is exactly what it would have been if I gave a testimony."

Hallstrom said she "refused to testify in court" and "commit felony perjury," which landed her on Barker's "s--- list."

"That was the final straw, but it's against the law to fire an employee for failing to testify on your behalf in a court of law. So they could not fire me for that," she added.

Holly Hallstrom Claims She Was Called 'Overweight' by Bob Barker

Instead, Hallstrom claimed that Barker labeled her "overweight," which became the "justification for firing" her.

"I was not surprised that he used that as the excuse .... But when I was asked why I was fired, I told them, 'I was told it was because my weight was a problem,'" she recalled.

Holly Hallstrom Claimed Bob Barker Started Acting Irrationally After Lawsuit

Hallstrom claimed that Barker received major backlash from fans in response to Parkinson's sexual harassment lawsuit and caused the longtime TV star to act irrationally.

"Barker experienced a bombardment of hate mail for the first time ever, and he went out and told everyone that I was lying, that weight was never mentioned. It became absolute insanity," Hallstrom said during the docuseries. "How can you say I was not fired because of my weight when I was cut out of 50 percent of the show, and when I was on camera, I was hidden away behind automobiles and large appliances because of my weight problem, according to the director?"

Hallstrom claimed Barker told her she would be taking an "early retirement," citing her weight as an issue. The former model said that this was the first time she felt "hate" for Barker.

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Non-paywall version of article

The unsung warriors of 'The Price Is Right' - They brought down Bob Barker — and paved the way for #MeToo​

By the late 1980s, CBS was so notorious for its lack of diversity that it had earned the nickname the Caucasian Broadcasting System. To counteract its image, "The Price Is Right" announced that Barker's Beauties would be adding a Black model. In 1990, after a high-profile nationwide casting call, Kathleen Bradley, a 39-year-old model and singer, got the job. "I felt very proud to be the one that was chosen to represent people of color," she says, dressed in jeans and a denim shirt, as we sit on the leafy patio of her West Hollywood home.

But it didn't take long for Bradley to learn how Black employees were treated on the show. The prize administrator Deborah Curling, one of the show's few other Black staffers, warned Bradley of the frequent racial slurs backstage. Sure enough, Bradley found that all kinds of "offensive and discriminatory remarks, including those against blacks, women, gays, and other minorities, were tolerated," as she wrote in her memoir, "Backstage at The Price Is Right." Barker, in particular, had a reputation as a bigot. When Black contestants tried to embrace him, he would "jokingly" run from them, as if they posed a threat. Black contestants were marked on the show's call sheet with the letter B, and were called only during the third act of the show, when contestants' row was already filled with whites. "He didn't want too many," Hallstrom says.

The tensions worsened when Barker learned that Parkinson had been sleeping with Black men, including the singer Smokey Robinson and the actor Tim Reid. "He went through the roof," Parkinson confided to Bradley. "I've never heard him that upset and nasty." When Bradley asked why Barker was so angry, Parkinson didn't mince words: "He always had the idea that if he was involved with someone who'd had sexual relations with a Black man, he might contract some sort of communicable disease just because they're Black." Hallstrom heard a similar account from Burnet, who told her, "Barker says Black men are the most diseased creatures on earth."

[Mario500]

(suggestion: do not believe all accusations)

Originally Posted by TMC

Non-paywall version of article

The unsung warriors of 'The Price Is Right' - They brought down Bob Barker — and paved the way for #MeToo​

(note: this article was found to had been biased and contradictive from the perspective of the creator of this note during the calendar year of its publication (2024))

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by Mario500

(suggestion: do not believe all accusations)



(note: this article was found to had been biased and contradictive from the perspective of the creator of this note during the calendar year of its publication (2024))

These accusations are pretty well corroborated by other models and staff members who worked on the show at the time. Bob Barker was a creep, pervert, misogynist and racist. We’ve known this since the ’90s.

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Originally Posted by Mario500

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(note: this article was found to had been biased and contradictive from the perspective of the creator of this note during the calendar year of its publication (2024))

“The Price Is Right” models allege shocking racism behind the scenes: 'That was a direct order from Bob Barker'

Two of "Barker's Beauties," Kathleen Bradley and Claudia Jordan, allege that host Bob Barker and producers were wildly racist on the game show's set.

[Coffeecup]

On Tattletales I would see Bob and his wife Dorothy Jo and he seem so likable.
When Dorothy died and now he has the role of a single man who has many young women around him on Price. Later with stories about him, Even the title Barker's Beauties sounds like he is owns them to say, they are my girls. I lost the love or like for him for he sounds like an old Goat.

[Mario500]

(note: message on Facebook page related to a former producer of "The Price is Right" named Roger Dobkowitz regarding recent "Dirty Rotten Scandals" documentary involving "The Price is Right")

[Mario500]

(note: YouTube comment (from another Internet user, not the creator of this note) regarding "Dirty Rotten Scandals" documentary involving "The Price is Right")

[staytuned]

Sure, Barker had a few issues with the models here and there. But at least its nowhere near as sininster as Bill Cosby drugging and r*ping women nor R. Kelly and/or P. Diddy sexually humiliating them at their will whenever they wanted.