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The original Price Is Right also employed models. Usually, two models appeared per episode to model the prizes, much in the same tradition as the later incarnations. As is the case with the Carey era of the current version, the models were not referred to specifically by a nickname.
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. She was also Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1971 issue.
Following their testimonies in Barker's lawsuit against Hallstrom, models Janice Pennington and Kathleen Bradley, production assistants Linda Riegert and Sherrill Paris and veteran director Paul Alter all departed The Price Is Right. Pennington, who had been with the show since its 1972 debut, and Bradley, who appeared on the show between 1990 ...
Off camera, the Beauties say, they were routinely subjected to sexual harassment and racial discrimination. A male staffer groped them; Barker hit on them and belittled them. ... "The Price Is ...
Barker, who died in August at age 99, wasn’t yet rocking his silver hair — though his “Barker’s Beauties” surely were there — as he called hopefuls to “Come on down” to bid and win ...
To help display its many prizes, the show has featured several models who were known, during Barker's time on the show, as "Barker's Beauties”. Some longer-tenured Barker's Beauties included Kathleen Bradley (1990–2000), Holly Hallstrom (1977–1995), Dian Parkinson (1975–1993), Janice Pennington (1972–2000), and Rachel Reynolds (2003 ...
The host had a three-year relationship with one of “Barker’s Beauties,” “Price Is Right” model Dian Parkinson, in the late ’80s. Parkinson later sued for $8 million, claiming ...
Dian Parkinson (born Diana Lynn Batts; November 30, 1944) is an American former actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.She represented the United States at Miss World 1965 in London, where she placed 1st runner-up.