Bob Barker acquired a standing ovation in 1987 when he walked onto The Value Is Proper sound stage and debuted his head filled with silver hair.

After a number of minutes of applause from the viewers for his new hair shade, Barker, who was 64 years outdated on the time, teased, “You just like the go well with, is that it?”

He then thanked the “girl within the again row” who yelled out, “We love your hair!” Barker went on to notice, “I do know that for those who noticed the present yesterday, my hair was darkish. And I will inform you, I had a blind date final evening.”

“By no means once more, however do you prefer it? As a result of for those who do not, for those who do not prefer it, I can chant an outdated Sioux Indian chant and it will be darkish once more,” he joked with a nod to his Native American roots of the Sioux tribe.

Afterward, Barker defined: “I used to be tinting my hair for years and it began getting blue. Then they put a everlasting dye in it and it obtained pink. And so I made a decision to do the patriotic factor and let it’s white. Purple, white and blue, and right here we’re.”

Whereas chatting with Los Angeles Occasions again in 1990, the TV character mentioned rankings for the CBS present improved as soon as he went all pure.

“I used to be prematurely grey,” Barker instructed the publication. “I started to grey at my temples, and I assume it might be that know-how at the moment was not what it’s at present, however I didn’t look good. It regarded like I had no hair at my temples, so that they steered I tint it.”

“I went on trip and I simply let it go,” he added. “Once I got here residence the individuals on the present mentioned, ‘You look higher this manner than you do with it dyed or tinted. Why don’t you permit it this manner?’”

As for the massive reveal on The Value Is Proper, Barker shared, “We taped forward. So let’s say on the Wednesday present I had darkish hair, however after we taped the following present I had grey hair and that present aired on Thursday. I obtained a letter from a fellow who mentioned, ‘Bob, you need to have had one hell of an evening.’”

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The acclaimed tv host died of pure causes in his longtime Hollywood Hills residence this week on the age of 99, Roger Neal — who served as his publicist from 1987 via 1994, and once more from 2020 — introduced Saturday on behalf of Barker’s girlfriend, Nancy Burnet.

“It’s with profound unhappiness that we announce that the World’s Biggest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,” Neal mentioned in a press release.

“I’m so pleased with the trailblazing work Barker, and I did collectively to reveal the cruelty to animals within the leisure trade and together with working to enhance the plight of abused and exploited animals in the USA and internationally,” Burnet added in her personal. “We had been nice buddies over these 40 yrs. He shall be missed.”

Barker is survived by his half-brother Kent Valandra and half-nephews Robert Valandra and Chip Valandra, in addition to a half-niece, Vickie Valandra Kelly.