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‘Price Is Right’ model Holly Halstrom eviscerates late host Bob Barker: ‘Hate that man’
“Price Is Right” model Holly Halstrom railed against the game show’s late host Bob Barker while discussing her firing Wednesday.
The 73-year-old, who participated in E!’s new “Dirty Rotten Scandals” docuseries, declared that she “hate[s] that man” in a new interview.
Halstrom explained to People that she found herself on Barker’s “s–t list” when she “refused to testify in court … on [the emcee’s] behalf” when Dian Parker sued him for sexual harassment in 1994.
“I wanted nothing to do with it,” Hallstrom continued. “I was the only one [of ‘Barker’s Beauties’] that was asked to give a deposition and did not. I didn’t want to commit felony perjury, which is exactly what it would have been if I gave a testimony.”
While Halstrom believes this was the “final straw” for Barker, she noted that the network “could not fire [her] for that.”
She claimed, “Instead, Barker said I was overweight, and that’s why I was off the show. I was not surprised that he used that as the excuse, the reason, the justification for firing me.”
While Barker later denied this, Halstrom insisted, “How can you say I was not fired because of my weight when I was cut out of 50% of the show, and when I was on camera, I was hidden away behind automobiles and large appliances because of my weight problem?”
Halstrom was “devastated” and “didn’t want to retire,” telling the outlet she had “no choice” but to leave in 1995 after 20 years because Barker “wanted [her] gone.”
When Halstrom, who had not signed a non-disclosure agreement, spoke out upon her exit, Barker filed a defamation lawsuit — which led Halstrom to wait until his 2023 death to address their falling out further.
“He … dragged me through court for 10 years until I had nothing left,” she recalled, noting that she subsequently sued Barker for malicious prosecution.
“Even though he lost,” Halstrom said, referencing their out-of-court settlement, “he would’ve done it again in a heartbeat.”
Since Barker’s passing at 99 of natural causes, Halstrom has found sharing her story “liberating.”
She gushed, “They say the truth will set you free. Man, it set me free. Absolutely, 100 percent.”
During her appearance on “Dirty Rotten Scandals,” Halstrom dubbed Barker a “narcissistic egomaniac” who couldn’t be “reined in” after his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, lost her battle to lung cancer.
She claimed that after a “long period of mourning,” he “was unleashed” and “all of a sudden … became Mr. Man About Town.”
Barker subsequently moved on with longtime girlfriend, Nancy Burnet, and allegedly had an affair with Parkinson during their romance.
The scandal “took a toll,” Halstrom told viewers, explaining, “There was fighting on the sets, yelling, and it was massive. And it ultimately, I think, destroyed ‘The Price is Right.’”
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