CONFIRMED: 5 models were let go...

[MissesJanice]

Personally, I've never believed those accounts. Barker made a couple of very embarassing mistakes on the episode that was taped the day (or very close to the day) he announced his retirement if I have my dates correct. I remember thinking when I watched that show, "No wonder he announced his retirement after this was taped." I think Bob wanted to go out on top and not have viewers see him as "losing it" at times.

Price is such an important show to CBS daytime and affiliates across the country. I can't believe they'd jeopardize that by asking Bob to leave. Surely they knew that, for many viewers, Bob Barker and The Price is Right were one in the same. I think that has been pretty evident with the way ratings are supposedly going this season. CBS sure isn't coming out to say anything to the contrary.

AGREED!! Shane should have stayed, she reminded me of Janice Pennington.  The accounts are kind of interesting. Saying that Bob was told to retire or be fired. This was supposedly because of pending lawsuits that were bringing CBS into it. If the headline has said "BOB BARKER FIRED FROM PRICE" then Price would no longer exist.

[PriceFan14]

If Bob Barker was forced out of TPiR for whatever reason, the world would know about it. You don't just fire/force out the WGMC without it being caught. Who comes up with this stuff? This is THE main problem with message boards now-a-days - RUMOURS.

[isucgv]

If Bob Barker was forced out of TPiR for whatever reason, the world would know about it. You don't just fire/force out the WGMC without it being caught. Who comes up with this stuff? This is THE main problem with message boards now-a-days - RUMOURS.

You do understand the legal system, right?

[PriceFan14]

You do understand the legal system, right?

What does the legal system have to do with Bob speaking out about being forced from the TPiR hosting job...it's the same as the models speaking out about their dismissals...or any other celebrity let go from their job.

[isucgv]

What does the legal system have to do with Bob speaking out about being forced from the TPiR hosting job...it's the same as the models speaking out about their dismissals...or any other celebrity let go from their job.

Because very often, when big name people are let go from a big named production, even bigger named lawyers tell them not to say anything as part of their being let go, if there was a legal settlement involved.  Bob had already been involved in many legal actions over the course of the years.  It isn't outside the realm of possibility that he was forced out, and then offered a settlement and a payment to say he "retired". 

BTW: I don't know that any of this actually is why Bob left at the end of season 35.  Merely offering it as an example....

[temptation1979ga]

I can see where that example makes a whole lot of sense and might have some validity. I doubt very many of us know the full story. Personally, I've just never thought of Bob as the "take a settlement and keep quiet" kinda guy.

[Axl]

Bob had already been involved in many legal actions over the course of the years.  It isn't outside the realm of possibility that he was forced out, and then offered a settlement and a payment to say he "retired".

That seems to me to be a less likely scenario, actually, because when you start drawing up paperwork and contracts, you get a lot of lawyers and managers involved.  And when that happens, there's a greater possibility of leaks, no matter how Bob and Les would be bound.

Like you, I don't know what the real story is.  It may be as simple as what Bob said.  However, it could be a combination of factors.  Perhaps Bob knew he wouldn't have that much more time left, and when he saw another lawsuit coming down the pike, he decided to get out (with the encouragement of the network?) before his reputation was completely besmirched.

That's a potentially leak-proof scenario.  Bob has a very small posse now.  I can only think of his housekeeper, his brother, his manager (who doubles as his publicist), and an occasional girlfriend.  They could keep a lid on things if they wanted to.

[MrPlinko]

There are things about Bob's retirement that will never be known,

The most logical could also be health.  Advancing age catches up to everyone and even though Bob slipped up in the last few years prior to 2006, it would have been devastating for Bob to keep doing the show if he was in physical pain.  The legend got out at the right time, and it wasn't like watching poor Allen Ludden in obvious pain hosting his last few months on Password Plus before Tom Kennedy became permanent host.  The thing was, if Bob was in pain, he would do anything and everything to hide it for the love of Price and the people who made it special.  They were his "family."  That "extended family" was shared with millions of viewers each weekday for 35 years.  I credit the man far more for how long he extended Price with some of the greatest and wittiest people this industry has ever known, than pay much attention to the political and economic implications of past or pending lawsuits.  Who knows what if any effect they had on Bob's retirement? However,I would speculate the reasons for Bob stepping down were health related more than anything else.  Bob did say about a year before his retirement that it was getting "physically harder to do the show."

The man's over 80 years old.  From a health standpoint, he probably would have been able to do one more year at best before heath issues would have forced him to retire.  Better to step down in peace than continue in pain.

Joe

[ib4uf]

If Bob Barker was forced out of TPiR for whatever reason, the world would know about it. You don't just fire/force out the WGMC without it being caught. Who comes up with this stuff? This is THE main problem with message boards now-a-days - RUMOURS.

hopefully you set your alarm, cuz it's time to wake up

agreed, rumors abound in places like these, so, take it as the grain of salt that it is

Personally, I've just never thought of Bob as the "take a settlement and keep quiet" kinda guy.

he would if it preserved Bob

a lawyer worth his/her weight in garbage would tell Bob first - say nothing to no one and sign nothing

why would this be any different

[temptation1979ga]

Let's all avoid bumping threads that haven't been responded to in 30 days or more.