{"id":34268,"date":"2023-08-26T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/bob-barker-through-the-years-the-game-show-icons-life-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T17:22:48","slug":"bob-barker-through-the-years-the-game-show-icons-life-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/bob-barker-through-the-years-the-game-show-icons-life-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Barker Through The Years: The Game Show Icon\u2019s Life in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/bob-barker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Barker<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"s2\">was<\/span> a household name in the entertainment industry among generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Decades before becoming a beloved<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/stars-who-were-on-game-shows-before-fame-meghan-markle-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span class=\"s1\">game show host<\/span><\/a>, Barker was born in Washington. After spending his formative years in South Dakota and Missouri, he and <span class=\"s2\">late wife Dorothy Jo<\/span> Gideon <span class=\"s2\">moved to<\/span> Florida <span class=\"s2\">after college graduation<\/span>, where he began his career in entertainment as an announcer for a Palm Beach radio station. One year later, <span class=\"s2\">they <\/span>settled in California, <span class=\"s2\">and<\/span> Barker landed his <span class=\"s2\">eponymous<\/span> radio show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Barker got<\/span> his start on television<span class=\"s2\"> hosting <\/span><i>Truth or Consequences<\/i>, which he helmed from 1956 to 1975, <span class=\"s2\">before emceeing<\/span> the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants in 1967. <span class=\"s2\">He<\/span> began his <span class=\"s2\">35-year <\/span>tenure at <i>The Price Is Right<\/i> in 1972 before retiring in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Barker was also an impassioned animal rights advocate, launching his <\/span>DJ&amp;T Foundation \u2013 named after his mother and Gideon \u2013 in 1995 in support of animal-neutering programs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Keep scrolling to see Barker\u2019s life and career in photos:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/bob-barker-through-the-years-the-game-show-icons-life-in-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Barker was a household name in the entertainment industry among generations. Decades before becoming a beloved game show host, Barker was born in Washington. After spending his formative years in South Dakota and Missouri, he and late wife Dorothy Jo Gideon moved to Florida after college graduation, where he began his career in entertainment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}