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Bob Barker, former host of 'The Price is Right' once spent $700k to move three elephants to a more comfortable climate
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Bob Barker stepped down as host of Miss USA/Universe pageants after 20 years after his request that fur prizes for the contestants be removed was refused. Following his wife's death Barker became a staunch advocate for animal rights.
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Bob Barker was trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to a fleet squadron in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."
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Bob Barker is part Sioux and spent most of his childhood living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota
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Bob Barker trained for eight years with Chuck Norris and is a black belt.
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Due to Bob Barker's animal rights activism any episode of the Price is Right featuring a fur or fur coat as a prize was cut from syndication
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Bob Barker's Price is Right microphone was so long so that he could easily reach jumping contestants mouths, and so thin so as to not hide contestants' reactions. One of the three mics is in the Smithsonian.
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Bob Barker, former host of The Price is Right, is 1/8 Native American and an official member of the Sioux Tribe
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Bob Barker is literally older than sliced bread.
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Vanna White failed miserably on 'The Price is Right' two years before she appeared as a letter turner on 'The Wheel of Fortune.' Bob Barker was not a fan.
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Bob Barker didn't stop dying his hair until he was 64. The first time he came out to host The Price is Right with gray hair, he got a standing ovation.
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Vanna White appeared on The Price is Right in 1980. Bob Barker, frustrated by her inattention, remarked: "You're so busy looking at yourself on the monitor, you don't know what's going on."
TV host Bob Barker trained in karate under Chuck Norris for eight years. - source
Chuck Norris taught people such as Bob Barker (The price is right),Priscilla Presley and Steve Mcqueen(actor) in his Karate schools - source
Bob Barker refused his role in Happy Gilmore until he discovered that he would win the fight against Adam Sandler.
Bob Barker was not initially considered to host "The Price is Right" in 1972. CBS recommended him for the role, but the show's producers initially declined. After some resistance between the producers and the network, both parties compromised, and Barker ended up hosting the show for 35 seasons. - source
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Bob Barker had a feud with Betty White over an elephant
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The reason Bob Barker was so into animal rights was because his wife, Dorothy Jo was way ahead of her time in recognizing the rights of animals and that shortly after her death in October 1981 he took up animal rights in order to keep doing something that she had done.
Bob Barker of The Price is Right studied martial arts at Chuck Norris' karate school.
The first prize Bob Barker ever offered on the Price is Right was a fur coat.
The Price is Right with Bob Barker was actually a revival of a show of the same name that ran for nine years from 1956 to 1965.
In September 1977, there was a "Price is Right" hopeful called down to Contestants' Row whose tube top slipped and exposed her breasts. Bob Barker memorably recounted the event in an interview: "She came on down and they came on out".
