Game show host Bob Barker dead at 99

Bob Barker, longtime game show host of” The Price is Right” and “Truth or Consequences,” has passed away at age 99 according to a publicist.

Barker hosted “Truth or Consequences” from 1956 to 1975, and “The Price is Right” from 1972 until his retirement in 2007.

He passed away in his Los Angeles home.

“The Price is Right” is TV’s longest-running game show.

Barker was also known as an animal rights activist.

— With files from The Associated Press