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Drew Carey paid tribute to the precocious Bob Barker — his predecessor arsenic big of the iconic crippled amusement The Price Is Right — aft his death astatine the property of 99. “Very bittersweet time for the Price Is Right family, and carnal lovers each implicit the world,” Drew posted to X (formerly Twitter) soon aft quality of the decease broke. “There hasn’t been a time connected acceptable that I didn’t deliberation of Bob Barker and convey him. I volition transportation his representation successful my bosom forever. #RIPBobBarker We emotion you,” the comedian, 65, signed disconnected with a reddish heart.
Bob’s decease was confirmed to TMZ on Saturday, August 26th by his rep, who said that the tv big died of “natural causes.”
Very bittersweet time for the Price Is Right family, and carnal lovers each implicit the world. There hasn’t been a time connected acceptable that I didn’t deliberation of Bob Barker and convey him. I volition transportation his representation successful my bosom forever.#RIPBobBarker
We emotion you ❤️
— ʎǝɹɐƆ ʍǝɹᗡ (@DrewFromTV) August 26, 2023
Barker began hosting The Price Is Right on CBS successful 1972, and remained successful the relation for 35 years until his status successful 2017. The CBS Television Studio that the bid inactive films successful is present named The Bob Barker Studio arsenic tribute. Drew Carey took the reigns implicit from Bob, becoming the second-ever big successful 2007 — a rubric that helium inactive holds today.
When Drew archetypal took implicit the role, helium revealed helium asked Bob for his champion advice. “I knew I could ne'er beryllium Bob, and I wasn’t going to effort to beryllium Bob,” Drew recalled to People mag backmost successful 2021 — revealing that successful 2007, the 2 men went retired to chat. “We went retired to lunch, and his proposal was, ‘Don’t effort to transcript me. Just marque it your ain show,'” Drew shared.
Bob Barker is seen during a instrumentality to ‘The Price Is Right’ successful 2015 with Drew Carey. (CBS)
Bob inactive holds records for his agelong tally on The Price Is Right, nevertheless — peculiarly due to the fact that helium held the regular relation for 51 years, which is longer than anyone other successful the tv world. He went connected to gain 19 Emmy Awards during his illustrious career, with 14 of them successful the Outstanding Game Show Host class for The Price Is Right.
The Price Is Right airs weekdays connected CBS.
