Bob Barker net worth
What is Bob Barker’s Net Worth and Salary?
Bob Barker is a retired American television game show host and animal activist with a net worth of $70 million. He is best known as the longest-running host on the game show “The Price Is Right.” Bob hosted the show from 1972 to 2007.
early life
Robert William Barker was born on December 12, 1923 in Darlington, Washington. He grew up most of his life on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota, and was listed as a full member of the Sioux Tribe of the American Indian Census Roll, 1885-1940. He is one-eighth of the Sioux. His mother was a school teacher and his father was an electrical high-line foreman.
Buck received a basketball scholarship to attend Drury College (now known as Drury University) in Missouri. There, he became a member of the Epsilon Beta chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity. During World War II, he left college to serve as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, but the war ended before he was assigned to an ocean-going squadron. After the war, he returned to college and earned a degree in economics.
Profession
During college, Buck worked on the KTTS-FM radio station in Springfield. He then moved to Florida, where he worked as a news editor and announcer at WWPG 1340 AM in Palm Beach (now known as WPBR in Lantana). Eventually, in 1950, he moved to California and got his own radio show in Burbank, titled “The Bob Barker Show,” which ran for six years. While he was hosting an audience engagement show in California, he was noticed by game show producer Ralph Edwards. Barker then switched from radio to television, and in 1956 began hosting “Truth or Consequence.” He continued to host the show until 1974.
In 1971, when he was still the host of “Truth or Consequence,” he was chosen to host the NBC pilot show “Simon Says.” Then, in early 1972, CBS became interested in a revival of “the price is right” proposed by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. The network agrees to receive it on the condition that it chooses Barker as the host. So on September 4, 1972, Buck began hosting a new, modernized version of “The Price Is Right” on CBS. He continued in this role until he announced his retirement from the show on October 31, 2006, officially stepping down as host in 2007. His final episode aired on June 15 and was recorded earlier in the month on June 6, 2007. After leaving the show, Buck returned three times: once in April 2009, to promote his new autobiography; once in December 2013, to celebrate his 90th birthday; and once in April 2015, because of an April Fool’s Day Jokes, he briefly took over hosting duties from then-current host Drew Carey.
The price is the right salary
During his final decade on the show, Buck earned $10 million a year.
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Other jobs
Bob Barker had a memorable cameo role with Adam Sandler in the film Happy Gilmore (1996). In the movie, Sandler and Buck fight on the golf course. The fight was over when Buck punched Sandler in the face. Buck has claimed in past interviews that there isn’t a day when no one sees him in public and references that scene in the movie.
Additionally, Barker and his wife Dorothy Jo are semi-regular panelists on the game shows “Tattletales” and “Match Game.” He has appeared on talk shows such as “Dinah!”, “Larry King Live”, “The Arsenio Hall Show”, “The Rossio Donnell Show”, “The Ellen Show” and “Wayne Brady” show”. He has appeared in commercials for brands such as State Farm Insurance, and has also shot an ad supporting Republican congressional candidate David Jolly. He voiced the character Bob Barnacle in the Nickelodeon animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
Buck’s autobiography, “Priceless Memories,” was published on April 6, 2009. The book tells stories and anecdotes from his 50-year television career as well as his early life. He wrote the book with the help of Digby Diehl, a former book review editor for the Los Angeles Times.
personal life
Bob married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Jo Gideon, in 1945 until she died of lung cancer in 1981. Buck never remarried, but he had fallen in love with several women, including one of the famous “Buck’s Beauties” Diane Parkinson. The relationship lasted three years.
animal activism
Today, although officially retired, he remains an active supporter of animal rights. Bob, an avid supporter of animal rights, used to end every show with the famous phrase “please remember to get your pet neutered or neutered.”
Bob has participated in several protests against circuses keeping animals in cages and forcing them to perform tricks, usually under severe sedation.
In 2010, Buck donated $5 million to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an animal activist group. The money was used to buy a ship now used to intercept and disrupt Japanese whaling ships. The ship was named “MY Bob Barker”:
SS Bob Barker (WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)
The group named their other whaling interceptor after the late Simpsons producer Sam Simon, who donated hundreds of millions of dollars to various animal charities during his lifetime while also funding Started a vegan homeless food drive that feeds hundreds of people each week.
Bob Barker then purchased a helicopter for Sea Shepherd. He also donated $2.5 million to PETA to help build their Los Angeles headquarters, now known as the “Bob Barker Building.” In 2014, he spent $700,000 to move three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a wildlife sanctuary in California.
