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The American television game show The Price Is Right has, since its 1972 relaunch, employed a number of models to showcase the prizes and items that are given away on the show. From 1972 to 2007, the group was referred to as "Barker's Beauties", in reference to Bob Barker, who hosted the show during that period.
In October 1995, host Bob Barker dismissed Hallstrom from The Price Is Right, purportedly because she had gained 14 pounds (6.4 kg) because of a prescription medication that she was taking. [1] Hallstrom later alleged that the real reason for her dismissal was her refusal to support Barker when model Dian Parkinson sued him for sexual harassment.
Janice Maurine Pennington (born July 8, 1942) is an American former model and was one of the original "Barker's Beauties" models on The Price Is Right. As its longest-running model, Pennington was with The Price Is Right from the show's premiere in 1972 until 2000.
To counteract its image, "The Price Is Right" announced that Barker's Beauties would be adding a Black model. In 1990, after a high-profile nationwide casting call, Kathleen Bradley, a 39-year-old ...
In his more than 30 years as emcee of "The Price is Right," Bob Barker changed in only one appreciable way: He stopped dyeing his hair in the early 1990s, two decades into the game show's long and ...
Bob Barker hosted The Price Is Right for 35 years and won 19 Emmys. His episodes of the game show are now airing on Buzzr. (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) (CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)
From 1975 to 1993, Parkinson was a model on the US television game show The Price Is Right. Her 18-year tenure on the show was among the longest of any of the models, tied for third with Holly Hallstrom , and third only to Rachel Reynolds, who has been with the show since 2003 and Janice Pennington , who was with the show for more than 28 years.
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