'The Price Is Right' Model Holly Hallstrom Says Bob Barker Forced Her into 'Early Retirement' Over Show's Scandals: 'I Hate That Man' (Exclusive)

Even evil men can do good things. As bad as he was to women, he was that good for animals. Unless you plastered his name/likeness all over your media, don't fret it.

Drew has said in interviews his favorite thing in the world is going out to eat and leaving ridiculously huge tips

They moved in 2023 to Glendale. Went to be in the audience not too long ago. It was a fun and wacky time. Drew liked my shirt and mentioned it during his crowd work lol.

He told a story on a podcast about how he walked into a restaurant one time and a group of guys were sitting at a table. One guy said "oh look here comes that guy that makes me change the channel every time he comes on my TV." Drew thought that was the funniest roast he ever heard about him.

great story

Those were the golden years of whose line.

He surrendered to the flow.

This isn’t new. I remember in the 90s my mom not liking him for the way he treated the women on the show

Nah doubtful !remind me 15 years

I dunno, as someone that lives five minutes from Television City, he’s got pretty great word of mouth in the industry, which is always a decent indicator, at least nowadays.

everybody gotta get paid!

During the writer’s strike a few years back, he covered meals for writers at Bob’s Big Boy & Swingers Diner in L.A.

Oh yeah Sigma Nu had the worst rep at my university. I think they were actually unofficial/suspended on my campus and had to have a house outside of town. And this was thirty years ago.

Not to hurt you or anything just to say “hey, I wasn’t that bad” The guilt will be crushing

Kebert Xela

I’m making a pie. I ❤️ that sweet old zombie

Deal or No Deal especially

I just saw this commercial for a few old scandals like this being drudged up. Another one was how awful Tyra Banks was on Top Model. Yea we know it’s why you don’t hear shit from Tyra anymore. Just seems like lazy docs to fill space between sweeps.

In all the female contestants kissed the host back in the day. I have noticed in Leah episodes. He has stopped doing that probably for this reason.

Yes! Exactly!

But they came forward back in the 90s. They sued. It’s been published in their biographies.

And the black ladies he always acted scared of them like they would freak out and hurt him. He actually ran away from them a lot of times!

Thousands in free shit will get people to put up with quite a lot.

In his defense they did ragdoll him a lot turned into a running gag

Same. Started watching with 18 year old daughter and she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. I sort of couldn’t either!

I watch the old episodes all the time. It's good entertainment. You just take the comments as "that was the time period".

The one good thing AI has done is sassy videos of Bob Barker talking shit.

F*** that. I watched old reruns of Dawson’s Feud when I was a kid and I clearly remember there were awkward moments of stilted body language from women who clearly didn’t want to kiss that creep on the mouth, and LITTLE GIRLS who initially refused until he forced them to.

Any FEMALE contestant above the age of about 10-12 got a kiss on the mouth. Absolutely disgusting. I wonder how much mono, herpes, and lots of other diseases were passed around that way, too. So gross for so many reasons.

Weird how Trebek, Sajak, Bill Cullen etc never did it. Why do you keep defending this creepy behavior?

There seems to a lot of 'comments' coming out this past week or two, wondered if they're pull quotes from a doc or maybe a book

I think it was a variant on the mics which were used at the lectern the contestants would be behind. Those were thin mics so as not to block the faces of the contestants. Price is Right would use them, I think Password too. An obvious alternative was lavaliers but when the contestants are running from the crowd to a lectern you didn't want to have to stop the action to clip a mic on I guess. I guess Bob (and Gene) had a version of that you could drag around. As you mention later I think Bob just liked using the wire as a part of his show, telling the contestants to go around it, or him flipping it a bit to get it out of the way.

Thank you guys for giving me some knowledge about that weird, narrow mic. I mean this sincerely. I used to watch the show when I was home sick from school or during the summer. My brother and I always made fun of that microphone. He passed away a long time ago (both my brother and Bob Barker, not together in the same situation I hope). With all that said, I'd like to think of my brother meeting Bob Barker in the afterlife and saying in a jovial manner, "Hey, what's with your stupid f****** microphone? Is it a p**** joke? Stop it with this nonsense".

I know, imagine some guy coming on television and telling your owner to cut off your balls. How would you feel?

It's like a 6th sense

Wow that person called it

Not really a scandal involving Drew. It was her ex who was stalking her.