Bob Barker, Longtime Host of The Price is Right, Dies at 99

Bob Barker, Longtime Host of The Price is Right, Dies at 99

Bob Barker has died at the age of 99.

The longtime host of the CBS game show “The Price is Right,” Barker also hosted the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants for 20 years.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” publicist Roger Neal said in a statement Saturday.

GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST

A staunch animal rights activist, Barker used his platform on The Price is Right to urge viewers to get their pets spayed or neutered. 

Barker, the recipient of an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement, was predeceased by his wife Dorothy Jo, who died of lung cancer at the age of 57 in 1981.  

They had wed in 1945.