‘Price Is Right’ model Holly Hallstrom exposes ‘cruel’ Bob Barker for trying to ‘destroy’ ex-employees: ‘He was viciously vindictive’

Former “Price Is Right” exemplary Holly Hallstrom was hellbent connected exposing precocious big Bob Barker moreover earlier she was asked to look successful E!’s caller “Dirty Rotten Scandals” docuseries.

“My scheme was to find a journalist and show them nan full communicative from my experience,” nan 73-year-old tells Page Six.

“And that was it — conscionable put it retired location once,” she says. “It would beryllium location for anyone to see.”

But Hallstrom’s scheme changed acknowledgment to journalist David Kushner, who wrote nan 2024 Business Insider piece astir nan allegations of intersexual harassment against Barker.

“David hooked maine up pinch these group who were doing a documentary connected nan history of nan MeToo movement, and nan ‘Price Is Right’s spot successful that history,” Hallstrom explains.

“But aft they started looking astatine conscionable ‘The Price Is Right,’ they said, ‘We’ve sewage to do a documentary conscionable connected ‘The Price Is Right.’ There’s truthful overmuch there.'”

In nan docuseries, which premiered connected E! connected March 18, Hallstrom exposed nan truth down her firing from nan crippled show successful 1995.

Hallstrom claimed she was told she was terminated because she gained weight, but she said nan existent logic that she and different models connected nan show mislaid their jobs was because they refused to attest successful tribunal connected Barker’s behalf aft chap exemplary Dian Parkinson, who was having an matter pinch nan host, sued him for intersexual harassment successful 1994.

After Hallstrom took her communicative to nan press, Barker sued her for defamation, but he later dropped nan suit conscionable days earlier they were group to spell to proceedings successful 2000.

Hallstrom, successful turn, sued Barker for malicious prosecution. She received a multimillion-dollar colony retired of tribunal successful 2005.

Hallstrom tells Page Six that she had to hold until aft Barker, who hosted nan show from 1972 to 2007, died astatine 99 successful August 2023 to afloat speak retired against him.

“Bob Barker slapped that bogus suit connected maine and dragged maine done tribunal for 10 years until I had thing left,” she says.

“If he was alive, he would do it again successful a heartbeat.”

After saying successful nan doc that she “hates” Barker, Hallstrom elaborated to america connected really she really feels astir nan late TV icon.

“Hate is specified a beardown word. There’s a very circumstantial logic I do not dwell connected him,” she explains. “And that was because Bob Barker was mean. There are a batch of group successful Hollywood successful positions of powerfulness that are ruthless and deceitful. But he was besides mean.”

Hallstrom continues, “He was sadistic and he was viciously vindictive. He wasn’t happy conscionable firing you and you suffer your occupation and your income and your location and your profession and your reputation. He wanted to destruct you. And truthful galore group mislaid their jobs because they did not dishonesty nether oath. And that’s why I powerfully dislike him.”

The erstwhile “Barker’s Beauty” besides explained why she can’t blasted fans of nan beloved crippled show for antecedently opinionated by nan big contempt nan allegations.

“As acold arsenic nan nationalist sentiment went, nan nationalist had heard 90 percent of Barker’s broadside of nan communicative and almost thing of ours,” she notes.

“So location would beryllium nary logic for them not to judge that he was nan Santa Claus that they believed him to be,” Hallstrom adds.

Hallstrom besides believes it “would beryllium foolish” if anyone from Barker’s campy speaks retired astir nan docuseries.

“If they opened up that door, we would conscionable thrust a truckload of tribunal documents and testimonies backed pinch proof, grounds and videotape,” she tells Page Six.

“Remember, it’s connected videotape. That would beryllium a very foolish correction for them to make.”

Reruns of “Dirty Rotten Scandals: The Price is Right” are airing connected E! and nan bid is now disposable to watercourse connected request on Fandango astatine Home.