Bob Barker, who hosted The Price Is Right for 35 years, dies aged 99

Bob Barker, who hosted the US crippled amusement The Price Is Right for 35 years, has died astatine property of 99.

The Price is Right is the longest-running crippled amusement connected US tv and is watched each weekday by audiences successful different countries.

Barker was its smiling look from the archetypal bid successful 1972 until 2007. He won 19 Emmy awards during a vigor and TV vocation that spanned six decades.

He died of earthy causes astatine his location adjacent Los Angeles, his cause said.

"The World's Greatest MC [Master of Ceremonies] who ever lived, Bob Barker, has near us," publicist Roger Neal said successful a connection connected Saturday.

Barker was calved successful December 1923 successful Washington State and joined the US Navy during World War Two, earlier starting a vocation successful radio, and aboriginal TV.

In CBS's The Price Is Right, excited contestants were famously invited to "come connected down" earlier Barker tested their cognition of the terms of user items successful instrumentality for prizes.

In 2007 helium was succeeded arsenic big by comedian Drew Carey.

When Baker's decease was archetypal reported, Carey tweeted: "There hasn't been a time connected acceptable that I didn't deliberation of Bob Barker and convey him. I volition transportation his representation successful my bosom forever."