BOB Barker, an affable fixture on US television for half a century who hosted the popular game show “The Price Is Right” for 35 years and was a committed animal rights activist, has died at age 99, his publicist said.

The silver-haired Barker, host of “The Price Is Right” from 1972 to 2007, won 19 Daytime Emmy awards, the top US television honors, and also was known for a memorable comic turn playing himself in the hit 1996 film “Happy Gilmore,” beating up a character played by Adam Sandler.

Barker died on Saturday morning of natural causes at his longtime Hollywood Hills, California, home, his publicist Roger Neal said.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2023