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Bob Barker “went into a funk” aft woman Dorothy Jo Gideon’s death, his erstwhile “Price Is Right” colleagues revealed successful E!’s caller “Dirty Rotten Scandal” docuseries.
The big “was fresh to return his ain life” erstwhile his partner passed distant successful 1981, 2 months aft her lung crab diagnosis, according to shaper Barbara Hunter.
“That’s what he shared pinch me,” Hunter claimed, according to People.
One of nan crippled show’s models Holly Halstrom recalled Barker being “really … devastated” by nan nonaccomplishment and enduring a “long play of mourning.”
However, she alleged, “Then, each of a sudden, he became Mr. Man About Town. He knew he was nan prima of nan biggest show successful daytime, and Dorothy Jo wasn’t location anymore, keeping him reined in.
“It was for illustration he was unleashed and turned into this narcissistic egomaniac,” Halstrom continued.
Barker and Gideon were precocious schoolhouse sweethearts, pinch nan duo tying nan knot successful January 1945.
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The mates had been joined 36 years erstwhile nan 57-year-old mislaid her crab battle.
Barker moved connected pinch woman Nancy Burnet aft Gideon’s decease but did not remarry.
The longtime mates became an point successful 1983, and Burnet honored her precocious partner successful a rubbing connection aft he died of earthy causes successful 2023 astatine 99.
“We were awesome friends complete these 40 years,” she told Page Six astatine nan time. “He will beryllium missed.”
Barker was nan longest-running big connected “The Price Is Right,” emceeing nan show betwixt 1972 and 2007.
In “Dirty Rotten Scandal,” Halstrom addressed an alleged matter Barker had pinch exemplary Dian Parkinson during his romance pinch Burnet.”It took a toll,” she said (via USA Today). “There was fighting connected nan sets, yelling, and it was massive. And it ultimately, I think, destroyed ‘The Price is Right.'”
Halstrom, additionally, accused Barker of silencing women who complained of intersexual harassment.
“If anyone had gone to Bob because Bob was successful complaint of nan show and said, ‘I person a problem. I person a complaint,’ he would person told her to get complete it aliases look for a caller job,” she said.
“Dirty Rotten Scandal” premieres connected E! Wednesday astatine 9 p.m. ET.
If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 800-273-TALK (8255) aliases matter Crisis Text Line astatine 741741.
