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Dirty Rotten Scandals - Season 1 - Episode 05: The Price Is Right (1)
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00:09Tributes are pouring in today for Price is Right host Bob Barker who died of natural causes at age
00:1499 at his Hollywood Hills home. He was one of the most beloved men in the country if not the
00:22world.
00:22The Price is Right was the number one game show in America. The longest running game show in
00:27history. This was the American dream. People dream of hearing their names and being told to come on
00:33down. And Bob Barker was the number one show host. Bob Barker was a master at what he did. He
00:45was
00:45wonderful with the contestants. Women loved Bob Barker. When I was on The Price is Right I got up
00:52on the stage and I said Bob can I kiss you. You know all American game shows giving everybody cars.
00:59I've always admired him. He'd exude kindness. I don't think he could do anything wrong.
01:08America loved him but we knew a different Bob Barker. Most people are not aware of how many times Bob
01:17Barker
01:18has been sued by female employees. He is a liar. He is a shameless self-promoting liar. The real Bob
01:28Barker
01:28was selfish, conceited. He was verbally abusive to me. He called me a dumb bitch. He was vindictive. He
01:34was sexually aggressive. If you don't do what I want you are going to regret it. And then all of
01:40a sudden
01:40Bob started having sex with Diane. The Price is Right scandal was such a stunning story.
01:49One of the men stuck their hands right on my boobs. We're only allowed to have two black contestants
01:55on the show at a time. That was a direct instruction from Bob Barker. People were calling me the n
02:01-word
02:01saying you shouldn't have your black ass on the show. Sexist jokes, racist jokes. Intimidation,
02:07harassment, discrimination. Really something much darker that was happening behind the scenes.
02:14I lived through hell. The show has been shrouded in silence for too long. The story needs to be told.
02:35It's time to tell the truth.
02:39Come on now!
02:51I remember first hearing about the Bob Barker scandal in the 90s.
02:56Everyone's talking about game show host Bob Barker.
03:00And thinking, oh wait a minute, that can't be.
03:02The quiz show sex scandal that is rocking Hollywood.
03:05This grandfatherly guy that everybody loved might be a sex harriser.
03:10I have never forced her to do one thing that she did not want to do.
03:15It went so against his public persona that you had to cover it. And cover it we did.
03:23I'm Diane Diamond. I used to be a senior correspondent with the syndicated television show Hard Copy.
03:30We were a really popular tabloid television show back then.
03:36We all wanted to know what life was really like behind those big doors at The Price is Right.
03:43You know, Bob Barker, he was so popular.
03:46Was he actually doing what Diane Parkinson said he was doing back in the dressing room?
03:52We want to believe that these people who are on our televisions are beyond reproach.
03:57That they're our best friends.
03:59But believe me, in Hollywood, there's a lot of people with dark sides.
04:13I was thinking the other day that in our industry, there are one of a kinds.
04:18There'll never be another Elvis Presley, another Marilyn Monroe, and there'll never be another Bob Barker.
04:27So the tie I'm wearing, actually, it was one of Barker's ties.
04:30I was fortunate to be given a few of his ties when he passed.
04:34I have not put any of them on until today.
04:37I wear it proudly.
04:44I'm Roger Neal. I was Bob Barker's publicist for 15 years and knew him for almost 40 years.
04:51So Barker was born in 1923 in Washington State.
04:591950, he's 27 years old.
05:01He and his bride come to Hollywood.
05:04He had success when he got here.
05:06Radio and television.
05:08Remember this name.
05:09You're going to be hearing a lot about him.
05:11Here he is, ladies and gentlemen.
05:12Bob Barker.
05:13Bob Barker.
05:13Bob Barker.
05:16And it started his legendary career in Hollywood.
05:19So Mark Goodson and Bill Todman did the original version of Price is Right in the 50s.
05:26And in 1972, they decided to bring that show back.
05:29And they said, that's who we want to host the new Price is Right.
05:33Which created, I think, probably the greatest game show in history.
05:44When I hear the Price is Right, the first thing I think about is the first show.
05:49I think about Bob walking through the doors onto the Price is Right stage.
05:54And now here's the star of the new Price is Right, Bob Barker.
05:59And the audience went crazy.
06:03My name is Barbara Hunter.
06:06I was the first female producer for Mark Goodson Productions.
06:10The original production team was nine of us.
06:13I would be with Barker in his dressing room before every show.
06:19There's your $100.
06:20$100.
06:21And there's your one bin.
06:22My one bin?
06:23Yeah.
06:23We became really good friends.
06:28I think he had an ego.
06:30He called himself the world's greatest master of ceremonies.
06:34But I guess it was deserved.
06:36He never seemed to fail at anything.
06:43The new Price is Right was a hit from day one.
06:47And it had a lot to thank.
06:49It had a beautiful set.
06:51It had an incredible host.
06:53Bob Barker!
06:55People dream of being on the Price is Right.
06:57It was the only show taking every day untested people plucked from the audience to win glamorous prizes for a
07:07lot of people.
07:07It becomes this thing to attain.
07:11My name is Christian Carrion.
07:13I am one of the leading game show nerds in the world.
07:20In the new version of the Price is Right, we're jazzing up the show.
07:23We're going to jazz up the on-air personnel as well.
07:26And so they introduced the Barker's beauties.
07:29I think that was probably the smartest thing that they did was put three beautiful models on the show, modeling
07:35the prizes.
07:43We would call them the girls.
07:46It seemed okay at the time.
07:48Maybe it doesn't sound good now.
07:50But they were wonderful.
07:53Janice was the adult in the room.
07:56Diane was beautiful, but very fragile.
08:01And Holly was just a lot of fun, always.
08:05Holly Hallstrom was the funny one.
08:11She's my favorite by a mile.
08:14She wasn't afraid to fall on her face.
08:18She wasn't afraid to trip and drop something or, you know, mess up a prize because it was fun.
08:23It was just fun to watch.
08:26She was the first one to let everybody involved know you can get laughs and be a game show model.
08:32There was no precedent.
08:33So you were setting the precedent of how big you could go, how crazy you could act.
08:41I'm going to hit this boom mic, you know.
08:45Is the boom in the shot?
08:49How did I miss it?
08:50My head was right next to it.
08:53I think they could sense that I was not perfect.
08:57I was not poised.
08:59I was trying so hard to look like I belonged there.
09:02But, of course, I was just some country hick, hippie chick trying to convince people I was a professional model.
09:11If you look at my first shows, it's like just sheer terror behind the smile.
09:16I'm like, okay, is this good?
09:19And I'm looking at the wrong camera.
09:20Go lie down, Holly.
09:22But eventually, these people just became my new friends and family.
09:28I had come to L.A. and I didn't know anyone.
09:31It was such a tight, fun group.
09:35Here we are at Janice's Wild Kingdom.
09:38Oh, he's looking at us.
09:38Exploring the dangerous Katie did.
09:41At the time, I had no idea what was going to happen.
09:47America thinks he's Santa Claus.
09:50You know, he's out there giving away cars.
09:52People loved him.
09:54He was very amicable on stage.
09:59So that's what they saw.
10:03People are not going to believe when they hear the whole story.
10:10All the drama, all the chaos backstage, it was just bad.
10:16There were so many people involved.
10:18It wasn't just Barker.
10:18They know what they did, and they're still out there.
10:20It's power.
10:22It's 1,000% abuse of power.
10:26Finally, women stood up and said, no more.
10:32I wanted to wait until Bob was gone,
10:35because I knew that he would jump in and deny everything.
10:44But I was there, I heard what was said,
10:48and I know he is lying.
10:50For years, Bob Barker controlled the story.
10:54But that ends today.
11:05L.A. in the 70s, it was wild.
11:11It was out all night clubbing
11:14and just continue the party back at work.
11:20After we'd wrap, we'd sit in the green room
11:24and order pizza and open the liquor cabinet.
11:29It was full of any kind of liquor you wanted,
11:32all the cigarettes you wanted.
11:34That prompted some of us to go out onto an empty stage
11:39and put on shows.
11:40It was at 10 o'clock at night.
11:44The early days, it was so much fun,
11:47I couldn't wait to go there.
11:48We had a wonderful producer named Jay Wolpert,
11:53who was brilliant.
11:55He created a whole let's-have-fun-kitties kind of atmosphere.
12:01The Price is Right under Jay Wolpert had a sort of madcap quality to it.
12:07There's laughter and there's bizarre, surreal humor in the showcases
12:11and some of the prizes.
12:13Jay Wolpert was instrumental in that.
12:16It was a great day if you could make Jay laugh or surprise him.
12:19I can't tell you how many times I said,
12:21I can't believe they're paying me to do this.
12:24And all that changed when Jay left.
12:29When Jay left the show in 1978, I was on track to become producer.
12:36Barbara was basically running the show.
12:39But rather than promote Barbara to producer,
12:43the executive producer, Frank Wayne,
12:45hired his son, Phil Wayne, to produce the show.
12:50And he had no experience producing a television show like that.
12:57Nepotism is the worst thing about Hollywood
12:59because you have people in positions
13:02that should not be in those positions.
13:07There was all kinds of problems and stop tape
13:10because Phil would sit at the production table and doze off.
13:16What are you doing over here today?
13:18Now, first of all...
13:19Not only did they hire him,
13:22they put his name first on the credits
13:24and gave him the same salary
13:26that it had taken Barbara 10 years with the company to get.
13:35There was a prevailing attitude
13:37that the men were the decision makers
13:41and women were just accessories.
13:44If you look at the way the show was staffed back in the day,
13:47it was very much an old boys club.
13:48They're just so clearly from a different era.
13:52And Bob Barker, the guy with the power,
13:55he would dictate the culture of the workplace.
13:58I had some recurring characters that I would play.
14:02I remember the French maid.
14:04Yes, folks, our hardworking models are never finished
14:07until they've taken care of Bob Barker at home.
14:09When we did sketches, everything was catered to Bob
14:13because he liked the attention and the power that it gave him.
14:20That was their mindset.
14:24Women should just be voluptuous, movable props.
14:29You know, you go out, you stand next to a boat,
14:31and you're wearing a bathing suit.
14:33They put us in bathing suits every opportunity they got.
14:38And they liked to remind us, Janice, Diane, and I,
14:43that we were replaceable so that we would never feel secure.
14:50The producers would call us every week and say,
14:54we would like to use you this week,
14:57like we were just weekly contract players,
15:00when actually we were a huge part of the show.
15:03But they never wanted us to think that or know that.
15:11I remember one year, Frank came to me and said,
15:16we really need a model who can fill out a bathing suit.
15:22I would advise you to use your hiatus wisely.
15:28Meaning, I had to go get breast implants.
15:32And I had to pay for it myself.
15:36And they could do that back then.
15:38They could tell you, you're going to get breast implants.
15:41And there was nothing you could say.
15:43It was an office full of men,
15:46probably in their late 40s or 50s.
15:49And all the young girls, we were in our 20s,
15:52that's what we were dealing with.
15:55One time, I was told, go to wardrobe
15:59and put on a bunny cocktail outfit
16:03with mesh nylons on and high heels.
16:08And then take this bottle of vodka to Mr. Goodson.
16:13Mark Goodson was the biggest game show producer there was.
16:20And so, I said, okay.
16:25So, I went into Mr. Goodson's office with the vodka.
16:29And there were like five men sitting around.
16:33I was really uncomfortable.
16:37Nothing happened to me.
16:40I probably shouldn't have said yes,
16:43but I didn't want to lose my job.
16:45And I had no idea
16:48at what point could you lose your job.
16:53And then it starts to turn even darker.
17:03Bob's beloved wife, Dorothy Jo,
17:05passes away in 1981.
17:07Dorothy Jo was Bob's biggest cheerleader.
17:10She is why he had the career that he had up to that point.
17:12They went to Hawaii in August.
17:16Then she was diagnosed with lung cancer
17:21and died two months later.
17:24Bob really went into a funk after that.
17:28He was ready to take his own life.
17:31That's what he shared with me.
17:34He was devastated, really, by her death.
17:37There was a long period of mourning.
17:40And then, all of a sudden,
17:44he became like Mr. Man About Town, you know?
17:50He knew that he was the star
17:52of the biggest show in daytime.
17:56And Dorothy Jo wasn't there anymore,
17:59keeping him reined in.
18:01It's like he was unleashed.
18:07And turned into this
18:10narcissistic egomaniac.
18:25The Price is Right.
18:27By the time the 80s came around,
18:29just became this ratings juggernaut.
18:32It's the highest-rated show on CBS,
18:35the highest-rated show in daytime.
18:37The Barker's beauties become household names.
18:41And Bob Barker himself
18:43was becoming famous.
18:481982, Bob Barker wins his first Emmy.
18:51Bob Barker for The Price is Right.
18:54It was the first of 19 Emmys.
18:57The show was just beloved.
18:59And then he was hosting the pageant.
19:02And he was hosting the Tournament of Roses parade.
19:04The man was busy.
19:06When the show starts, you have to turn it on.
19:09And when you've done it long enough,
19:11you know which button to press.
19:14People could not get enough
19:16of The Price is Right and Bob Barker.
19:19I remember 1987, when Bob came back from vacation.
19:25And he walked on stage.
19:30And his hair had gone natural.
19:32And the audience went crazy.
19:36They gave him a three-minute standing ovation.
19:39And it was screaming, whistling, and catcalling from women.
19:43Thank you, ma'am.
19:47And it turned into this national publicity story.
19:51And it made him feel like the supreme ruler of his universe.
19:58So Bob really saw himself as a major star.
20:04Over the years, he would negotiate a little more power for himself,
20:10a little more control, or a little more money.
20:13And the next thing you know,
20:15Barker had literally seized control of the show.
20:20When I started researching this story,
20:23it was one of these stories that you never heard much more about
20:26because the principal characters weren't speaking.
20:28So I guess for me, this is just a great lost story
20:31about how people are intimidated and silenced.
20:35My name's David Kushner.
20:36In 2024, I wrote an article about The Price is Right
20:40for Business Insider.
20:42In the late 80s, Barker controlled the game.
20:45The game on TV, the game off TV, the game backstage.
20:51When Bob took over executive producer,
20:55he controlled with an absolutely ruthless iron fist.
21:00If something happened on set,
21:03like if he didn't have a prop that he was supposed to have,
21:06or if there were stop-downs during taping,
21:09if it made him angry, he had to just shred someone,
21:15a cameraman, a cable puller, anyone,
21:19venting his rage without ever considering
21:22how humiliating this was to whoever he was shredding.
21:27And he didn't care.
21:29He didn't care.
21:36One of the first cracks came in 1988.
21:40This was something that revealed the real power
21:43behind the scenes.
21:46My name is Robert Cisneros.
21:48I was stage manager on Price is Right.
21:51I was on the show from the good old days in the beginning
21:54until things kind of progressed a little bit differently later on.
22:00In 1988, I was backstage in my normal starting position for the show.
22:05The announcers started calling contestants,
22:07you know, come on down.
22:11One of the cameras has to swing from the stage
22:15to the audience to shoot the audience.
22:17The director's going,
22:18get your shot, get your shot.
22:20And the guy whipped his camera,
22:23and Janice happened to be standing right there.
22:25And there's a ledge with about a three-foot drop
22:27to the concrete floor.
22:30And he hit Janice, and she went over.
22:36And then people start screaming.
22:39Bob came out and said,
22:41listen, we have a show to do.
22:43He says, so I need you to be your best
22:46like nothing ever happened.
22:48Show must go on.
22:51One could argue that he has this,
22:53you know, show must go on attitude,
22:55and we got to just get together.
22:56But, you know, you just imagine someone,
22:59your family gets knocked unconscious,
23:00you're going to kind of stop everything.
23:02And ostensibly, they were a family,
23:04but he just was not treating anyone that way.
23:07So that episode revealed the attitude behind the scenes,
23:12which is you're kind of on your own.
23:13You get hit by a camera.
23:15We don't have your back.
23:19At the same time, CBS starts to get flack
23:22for being called the Caucasian broadcast system
23:27because of how white it is.
23:30So they're talking to each other.
23:32Listen, we've got to diversify.
23:34They targeted The Price is Right, of course,
23:36because this is the biggest daytime show,
23:38and all the models have always been white.
23:42So they do a casting call
23:44for the first black Barker's beauty.
23:50When I was growing up,
23:52I would always watch The Price is Right
23:54and admire the Barker beauties.
23:58This was the elite modeling gig of all time.
24:04I said, wow, that looks like something I could do.
24:11I'm Kathleen Bradley.
24:12I'm so happy and proud that I was able to be
24:15the first permanent black model on The Price is Right.
24:30I remember, never forget,
24:32and just driving up on the lot
24:34with the big CBS sign there right there
24:36on Beverly and Fairfax.
24:41Boy, was I nervous.
24:43I mean, all of a sudden,
24:44here comes a black girl on the show.
24:46And you're always going to have negativity
24:48and people who are prejudiced.
24:51But I'm kind of used to it.
24:52I got thick skin.
24:55I was born near Youngstown, Ohio.
24:58Dad worked at the steel mill
25:00like almost everyone else.
25:01I did break a lot of barriers.
25:03I was the first black homecoming queen.
25:07Then I went on to join an all-female group
25:11called The Love Machine.
25:12I did it for eight years
25:14to put me in the position I believe
25:17to be one of Barker's beauties.
25:19Since Kathleen has become Barker's beauty right here.
25:24I knew I could do it.
25:25I love being in front of the live audience.
25:28I called everybody.
25:29I told them, I said,
25:30finally, I'm going to be a Bob Barker beauty.
25:32I'm on The Price is Right.
25:33It was just one of the happiest times of my life.
25:36But as time went on,
25:39at some point it got back to me
25:41that some of the fans were writing negative things
25:45about me being on the show as a black model,
25:48saying you shouldn't have your black ass on the show
25:51and just not a good feeling.
25:53You'd like to think Kathleen Bradley's arrival
25:56would signify that times are changing.
25:58They were kind of changing on screen,
26:00but not necessarily backstage.
26:03Then one of the ladies on the production team
26:06brought to my attention
26:07that inside a production meeting
26:11when the models weren't in there,
26:14they would use the N-word.
26:18People should know the truth.
26:20The good, the bad, the ugly.
26:22It wasn't just Barker.
26:23And there are people
26:24who are not talking in this documentary
26:27because they know what they did
26:28and they're still out there.
26:30Intimidation.
26:31Harassment.
26:32Discrimination.
26:34Really despicable things.
26:38And they were just getting away with it.
26:53Watching older episodes of The Price is Right today
26:56is pretty cringeworthy.
26:59To just see the way that Bob handles women in general on the show.
27:06He would call contestants little girl.
27:08Step back here, my child.
27:09I want to talk with you.
27:10Just a minute.
27:11He would comment on their appearance.
27:14I'll watch you dress.
27:15You watch the wheel.
27:16I think it's fair to say that he wanted to be like Hugh Hefner
27:20or he wanted to be like Charlie with Charlie's Angels.
27:23That's just kind of how he saw the world, you know?
27:25Show them, everyone, what you can do
27:27with those lovely little dresses you have on today.
27:30There they go.
27:32There they go.
27:33And I think especially as it goes into the 90s
27:35and just that newfound freedom that women had to speak out.
27:39I was very uncomfortable with the idea and told him so.
27:42The world was changing.
27:44Justice Ginsburg, will you raise your right hand and repeat after me?
27:48But the culture backstage at The Price is Right
27:51didn't really change along with it.
27:56When I initially started the show,
27:58everybody was pretty cool and really friendly,
28:02especially the crew.
28:04But over a course of time,
28:06I kind of noticed the guys were kind of talking,
28:09looking, gawking at the girls.
28:11I found out this was a little more commonplace than I thought.
28:15It became common knowledge.
28:17Stay away from this person or stay away from that person.
28:21There was stuff going on where you had to say,
28:23hey, stop that.
28:27One time I was in the elevator
28:29and one of the men just stuck their hands right on my boobs.
28:35You know, I had to push them away.
28:39I didn't say anything.
28:41It became instinct to know how to handle it.
28:45One guy in particular,
28:46he was a little friendly, too friendly.
28:51He would rub up against us, joking around.
28:55It was totally inappropriate.
28:57I learned the stagehand had been around on the set for a long time
29:01and was probably doing it to all the other girls.
29:05When I reported this guy to the producers,
29:09to my surprise,
29:11no action was taken.
29:13I was really taken aback.
29:15This was really sexual harassment.
29:19So I took matters into my own hands.
29:23One day we had a set of golf clubs on the set.
29:26I said, oh, hey, show me.
29:28Do you know how to play golf?
29:29He said, yeah, I play a little bit.
29:31Come here and let me show you.
29:32So I let him get behind me
29:34and I said, uh, okay, uh, I backed up.
29:42I accidentally hit him right into growing.
29:45Accidentally on purpose, that was.
29:48We were so exhausted and tired of the treatment.
29:52And you just have to do what you have to do.
29:56If anyone had gone to Bob
29:59because Bob is in charge of the show
30:02and said, I have a problem, I have a complaint,
30:06he would have told her to get over it
30:09or look for a new job.
30:12Eventually, CBS,
30:14after receiving a lot of complaints about staff
30:17hitting on the models and staring at them
30:19and making creepy comments to them,
30:21they instated what they call the 10-second rule
30:23where you were not allowed
30:24to openly stare at a model
30:26for more than 10 seconds.
30:3010 seconds is a long time to stare at somebody.
30:35Yeah, it's crazy.
30:36One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
30:47It was something that was put in place
30:50to placate the people who were complaining
30:51about being objectified.
30:53And it wasn't, to my knowledge, enforced.
30:56There was no one monitoring
30:57how long the guys were staring at the models.
31:00It was a joke.
31:01It was an appeasement.
31:04They did things that made it look like
31:06they were taking action.
31:07So you will stop complaining and go away.
31:10The show was making a lot of money.
31:12The show was making millions.
31:13And so I think that it behooved them
31:15to sweep those things under the rug.
31:18Which was really hard
31:20because Bob started having sex with Diane.
31:26It took a toll.
31:27There was fighting on the sets, yelling,
31:30and it was massive.
31:31And it ultimately, I think, destroyed Price is Right.
31:46These were some very happy times.
31:50It was so nice and wonderful and happy days back then.
31:54And it just reverberates in my heart, my soul.
31:57Just looking at Bob, looking at Janice and Holly
32:00and standing next to everybody.
32:01You know, one big, happy family.
32:05When we hit the stage,
32:06the professionalism was there.
32:08But there were so many different things
32:10going on behind the scenes.
32:12There was some tension
32:14between the Barker beauties.
32:17There was a lot of animosity.
32:20Holly and Janice and Kathleen,
32:22they always got along together really well.
32:24And Diane was kind of the outcast.
32:27Diane Parkinson became the third Barker's beauty
32:30in 1975 on the Price is Right.
32:36She was what we would consider today
32:39to be the prototype of a supermodel.
32:42She won Miss USA.
32:45She was a runner-up in the Miss World pageant.
32:47With things like this around,
32:49I can't understand why Uncle Sam wants you.
32:52Diane Parkinson was, she once said,
32:55the wholesome, sexy one.
32:57She was really kind of positioned
32:59to be like the Pam Anderson of daytime TV.
33:03She'd wear negligees and revealing bathing suits.
33:06The fan reaction to Diane was pretty intense.
33:09I mean, I like the show, but she makes it.
33:11Diane is the show.
33:12She got thousands of pieces of fan mail per week
33:15from people that just loved watching her.
33:20Janice and I first realized
33:23long before the rest of the set knew
33:26that Diane and Bob were having sex.
33:30Diane confided in me,
33:32did you know I'm seeing Bob Barker?
33:34I'm like, what?
33:36Really?
33:37Oh, wow.
33:38Okay.
33:38I was really kind of surprised
33:40because Bob also had a girlfriend.
33:45As time went on,
33:46people were noticing the audience
33:48and the viewers at home
33:49how close Bob and Diane were
33:52hugging and looking at each other
33:53and playing around and all of that.
33:56There's nothing.
33:57Well, this is just a big mix-up.
33:58There's more Price is Right coming up.
34:00So it didn't really stay private very long.
34:06She would go downstairs
34:09throwing the breaks
34:11and go into his dressing room.
34:14And that's when
34:16some real hanky-panky was going on.
34:17She suggested that
34:19I had been so straight-laced
34:21all my life
34:22that I needed some hanky-panky in my life.
34:25Now, that was the word she used,
34:26hanky-panky.
34:27And she volunteered to provide
34:29the hanky-panky in my life.
34:32One day I was walking into the studio
34:34and walking past Bob's room.
34:37Well, she came walking out of that door,
34:40closing her robe
34:42with a big smile on her face.
34:44And I go,
34:45oh, what's going on here?
34:52Everybody knew who worked on that show
34:55that Bob Barker and Diane Parkinson
34:57were having an affair.
34:59It really divided the Barker beauties
35:02because suddenly Diane was the queen bee
35:05and they just had to watch their P's and Q's.
35:08Otherwise, pillow talk would go against them.
35:11Of course the other models hated Diane.
35:14Of course she was getting preferential treatment.
35:17She was sleeping with the boss.
35:18Everyone was basically kissing her behind
35:21because she may potentially be the new Mrs. Barker.
35:25In an already volatile interpersonal environment,
35:29to add that extra dynamic
35:30was like adding fuel to a fire.
35:36Next thing you know,
35:38I get a call from Bob's girlfriend
35:42and everyone knew that Bob was cheating on her with Diane.
35:49And she said,
35:50I know that Bob is sleeping with Diane.
35:53And I said,
35:54well, let's put it this way.
35:56She dates a lot
35:59and she targets celebrities.
36:01And she said,
36:02oh, like who?
36:03And I rattled off this list of celebrities,
36:06including several black men.
36:12And she said,
36:13oh my gosh,
36:14Bob has no idea
36:16that he has had sex
36:18with a woman
36:19who has had sex
36:20with black men.
36:22Bob has always said
36:23that black men
36:25are the most diseased people on earth.
36:30It was horrible.
36:32It was horrible.
36:33Was I surprised?
36:35No.
36:36He fit the profile.
36:38Rich, old, white,
36:40entitled, racist.
36:44When I heard what happened,
36:47I really did not want to believe that of Bob.
36:51I put Bob on a pedestal.
36:54I mean, he was like here.
36:55He was like the rock star.
36:57And for him to say this,
36:59I was angry.
37:00I was in disbelief.
37:02I was hurt.
37:04When you find out
37:06somebody you looked up to
37:07has a total different agenda
37:09than what you thought,
37:10what a big can of worms
37:13had just been opened.
37:17It was not a good look for Bob.
37:30Diane would confide in me
37:32that Bob did mention
37:34if she had ever been
37:35with any other person
37:36that was black,
37:38that he would not be happy
37:39and that he thought
37:40they might have had
37:42some kind of communicable disease
37:43or something.
37:47And sure enough,
37:48when Bob found out
37:50about Diane having slept
37:52with black men,
37:54he called her
37:55into his dressing room
37:57and they had
37:59the screaming fight
38:00of all time.
38:02He went off.
38:04The shit hit the fan.
38:05Oh, my God.
38:06The whole set
38:07was dead silent.
38:10Listening.
38:12And Diane
38:13comes out of Bob's dressing room
38:17and goes up the stairs
38:20and Bob's assistant
38:22is running after her
38:24saying,
38:24Diane,
38:25you've got to apologize
38:26to Bob.
38:27And Diane turns around
38:29at the top of the stairs.
38:30It's like the scene
38:30from Romeo and Juliet.
38:32And she's standing
38:33at the top of the stairs
38:34and the whole set,
38:36dead silent,
38:36is watching.
38:37And Diane says,
38:39I have sucked his
38:40too many times
38:42to start kissing his ass
38:43now.
38:46Woo!
38:48I'm like,
38:49what?
38:52It did not
38:53go over well
38:54with Barker.
38:56One of the producers
38:58standing next to me
38:59said,
38:59dang,
39:00who writes her stuff?
39:06Shortly thereafter,
39:08Diane was approached
39:10by Playboy magazine.
39:12We had already
39:13been forewarned
39:15that we were not
39:16to be in Playboy.
39:20Bob and Diane
39:21were not together
39:22at this time.
39:23Now,
39:23I don't know
39:23if it was her way
39:24of getting back at him,
39:25but she posed
39:26for Playboy.
39:30The photos
39:30were a little risque.
39:33That just did not
39:34go over well
39:35with Barker.
39:36And once again,
39:38this brought about
39:39an explosion.
39:43Bob arrived at the set,
39:45and we could hear
39:47the shouting.
39:47No, no, no, no.
39:48You're crazy.
39:50It's a family show,
39:51for Christ's sakes.
39:54Pretty much,
39:55that was the end
39:56of Diane Parkinson
39:57on The Price is Right.
39:59I want you folks
40:01to know
40:02that the lovely
40:03Diane
40:03is leaving
40:05The Price is Right
40:07to pursue
40:09other interests.
40:1218 years
40:13that Diane
40:14had been on the show,
40:15and she's gone.
40:18And Diane
40:19was not happy,
40:21and she was
40:22very bitter.
40:27She wanted
40:28to get back at him.
40:30We talked
40:31on the phone.
40:31She said,
40:32he was sexually harassing me
40:33and forcing me
40:33to do things to him
40:34in the dressing room
40:35when I didn't want
40:36to do it,
40:36and I'm going
40:37to get my attorney.
40:38I'm going to file
40:39a sexual harassment
40:40lawsuit against him.
40:43I was...
40:44I couldn't believe it.
40:51The quiz show
40:52sex scandal
40:52that is rocking Hollywood.
40:54Parkinson's lawsuit
40:55will be filed
40:56within a week.
40:57She's claiming
40:58sexual misconduct,
40:59and he's labeling her
41:01a greedy opportunist.
41:04As God
41:05is my witness,
41:06I have never
41:08forced her
41:08to do one thing
41:10that she did not
41:11want to do.
41:12Once Diane
41:13filed that lawsuit,
41:18everything changed.
41:21that's when things
41:22got even worse.
41:24Barker would not be
41:25the kind of person
41:26you'd want to mess with
41:28at all.
41:31If you weren't on
41:32Team Bob,
41:33look out.
41:34With Barker,
41:35it's not enough
41:36to just ruin your life.
41:39To fire you
41:41and deprive you
41:43and deprive you
41:43of your livelihood,
41:44he wanted to
41:46destroy you.
41:48I looked at him
41:49and I thought,
41:50you are scary.
41:51There's a snake
41:53inside there.
41:53Everybody
41:54was in trouble.
41:56Awesome.
41:56Ha ha ha.
41:57Let's go.
42:27There's a snake
42:27he's whereas
42:28you're a spicy
42:28person
42:28and he's
42:28man
42:28is
42:29and
42:29there's
42:29thing
42:29No.
42:30I wanted
42:30to .
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