{"id":2957,"date":"2024-07-08T01:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2024-07-08T01:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:26:59","slug":"bob-barkers-longtime-girlfriend-nancy-burnet-shares-an-update-on-his-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/bob-barkers-longtime-girlfriend-nancy-burnet-shares-an-update-on-his-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Barker\u2019s longtime girlfriend Nancy Burnet shares an update on his health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In 1972, a lot occurred. The No. 1 song at the time was \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d by Don McLean, Richard Nixon was in office and his administration was attempting to hide its involvement in the Watergate Scandal.\n\n\n\n

NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle program had also just been launched, and Bob Barker, the host of the Price is Right, was giving away brand-new cars, which at the time had a value of under $4000.\n\n\n\n

Bob Barker is a household figure and entertainment icon who is synonymous with The Price is Right. He hosted the well-known game show for 35 years.And Barker is commemorating a century of life this year.\n\n\n\n

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Barker, a Sioux Tribe member who grew up on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, met Dorothy Jo Gideon at an Ella Fitzgerald event. In 1945, while on leave from the United States Navy Reserve, where he trained as a fighter pilot during World War II, he married Gideon, his high school sweetheart. He never participated in active military service, but he did go back to school and earn a degree in economics.\n\n\n\n

When game show producer Ralph Edwards was seeking for a new host for Truth or Consequences, the first game show to air on television, Barker, who is now 99, was hosting a radio show in Los Angeles. Barker\u2019s reputation was growing as he hosted the enormously successful show from 1956 to 1975, and in 1967 he began hosting Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants.\n\n\n\n

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Then it took place. He made an appearance on the set of The Price is Right in 1972, catapulting both him and the program into superstardom.\n\n\n\n

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In 1988, Barker took over as executive producer of The Price is Right, which is still the longest-running game show in history. Barker was honored with 14 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host and four Emmys for his work as executive producer.\n\n\n\n

Barker said of his late wife in an interview with the Television Academy Foundation in 2008: \u201cShe gave me the confidence to even try to do what I set out to do. She actively supported me while I worked, not simply encouraged me.\n\n\n\n

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In 1981, Gideon, 57, died of lung cancer, leaving her husband of 36 years behind.\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI never had any inclination to remarry. She was my wife.\u201d Barker said.\n\n\n\n

He did however find another partner, Nancy Burnet, who has been with Barker now 40 years. According to Nancy, one of the key factors contributing to Barker\u2019s good health is his limited use of medication over the years.\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Fox News Digital just before his 99th birthday in December, Burnet, now 79, revealed something unexpected: \u201cHe\u2019s going to be 99, and he takes one prescription medication, and that\u2019s for his thyroid.\u201d And everybody who visits him or works in health care will remark, \u201cWell, we\u2019d like a list of his medications.\u201d Let me just show you the bottle, I\u2019ll say. I\u2019m done now. Therefore, he does not take any medication for high pressure, cholesterol, or any of the numerous other conditions that most people get as they age,\u201d remarked Burnet, making fun of his one prescription:\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in very good health for his age and his humor is still in good shape. He\u2019s had a very charmed life.\u201d\n\n\n\n

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However, it wasn\u2019t always like that. Barker underwent surgery to open a partially clogged artery and lower his risk of stroke in 1999 after seeing what he characterized as clumsiness in his hand. He had a stroke in 2002, and a few months later underwent prostate surgery. He enjoys the sun, but he\u2019s also had a few minor skin cancer instances, multiple falls resulting in more hospital trips, and severe back issues.\n\n\n\n

Burnet explains her intervention, helping Barker, a long-time vegetarian, gain strength with supplements. \u201cIt was not to replace meals but to enhance everything. To take that in addition to his meals because he was not doing well. He was looking tired and kind of frail, not just not looking healthy. And, you know, if you\u2019re going to be a vegetarian and vegan, you better know what you\u2019re doing.\u201d\n\n\n\n

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He made a few guest appearances after leaving his post as host of The Price is Right, which is now hosted by comedian Drew Carey, notably in 2013 on his 90th birthday.\n\n\n\n

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Burnet said of his time on the show, \u201cHe never grew tired of it. I\u2019m not sure I could do the same show every day. But he never grew bored with it. So maybe that\u2019s why it was so successful because he was always ready to do it and happy to do it.\u201d\n\n\n\n

A sentiment Barker also expressed on Good Morning America in 2007.\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am really not ready to say goodbye to it. So, I think it\u2019s a good time to say goodbye because I want to leave them wanting more.\u201d\n\n\n\n

He left with some wonderful memories, including watching Vanna White compete on Price is Right before she became famous for appearing on Wheel of Fortune and watching female contestants lose their shirts after dancing around in excitement.\n\n\n\n

The greatest aspect of the show, though, was that it offered Barker a platform to raise public consciousness about animal welfare.\n\n\n\n

Barker is also known as an advocate for animal rights and his show-ending catch phrase, \u201cThis is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.\u201d\n\n\n\n

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He credits his late wife, Gideon, as the inspiration behind his animal activism.\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe was ahead of her time,\u201d Barker told Good Morning America. \u201cShe stopped wearing fur coats before anyone was stopping. She became a vegetarian before people were becoming vegetarian. And I gradually did the same thing with her.\u201d\n\n\n\n

In fact, he has given millions of dollars to his DJ&T Foundation, which bears the names of Gideon and his mother, Matilda or \u201cTilly,\u201d who also loves animals, and which has been successful in establishing animal-rights curricula at law schools like Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern.\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf young people are introduced to the terrible exploitation and mistreatment of animals in society, it will help influence them in anything they do,\u201d Barker told the Associated Press in 2015. \u201cWhen your education and encouragement fail, you have to have legislation.\u201d\n\n\n\n

Together with Barker, Burnet, whom he first met at an animal adoption event he sponsored in 1983, promotes animal protection while opposing animal entertainment.\n\n\n\n

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