My best friend worked on Price for years. She was outstanding at her job, made a good salary, had children. Unfortunately she had the bad luck misfortune to be in the dressing room next-door when Bob Barker fired Holly because of her weight (a fact he would later deny because of negative audience backlash, then claim Holly was lying and sue her for slander).
What do you do when you know that if you tell the truth, you'll lose your job? I watched my dear friend go thru Hell because of Bob Barker. She was a smoking gun in the "who's telling the truth, Bob or Holly" drama. She was pressured to change her testimony in order to back Bob, to lie and ignore what she had heard. Her job was threatened. (Would YOU lie to keep your job?)
In the end my friend testified truthfully and lost her job, as did other Price employees whose testimonies, along with evidence clearly showed that Barker did in fact fire Holly because of her weight (duh!). Models Janice and Kathleen were NOT fired for being old, as the Price mythology explains it, but rather for the facts they told at their depositions. Their testimony along with others devastated Barker's lawsuit against Holly. Barker was livid. Heads rolled. People lost their jobs. And for what? In the end Barker wasn't about to go to court and lose, so he dumped his lawsuit. Holly was declared the winner, and got millions.
But it didn't end there. Firing someone for refusing to perjure themselves is ILLEGAL, as is firing someone for refusing to provide sex or be sexually harassed, or creating a work environment where people can be humiliated and discriminated against because they are African American. These are all things that Bob Barker has been sued for in the last ten years, and he has never won any. Millions of corporate dollars have been spent in out-of-court settlements to make the charges against him go away. In the business world it's well known that it's "better to settle" if you know you're going to lose.
But as sweet as all that settlement money was for those people who were illegally fired, how hard must it have it been these past weeks watching the CBS/Barker media machine proclaiming Bob a daytime TV hero? ("Pay no attention to those lawsuits behind the curtain!") The man ruled that show with an iron fist. What about the people who lost their jobs because they wouldn't lie for this man, or have sex with him? And why was there only one reporter in the entire media who could dig back far enough (thirty years) to find an original Price castmember to say something nice about Bob Barker now?
Finally there is Chris Mann's article in Radar. For those people who actually know Bob Barker, Mann's article is a surprisingly accurate portrayal of the real person. Bob Barker is a game show host that is beloved by his TV audience, but not well liked by people who work for him. He IS mean, vindictive and sadly alone. Mann presented an in depth portrait of the man. Radar reported many sides of a newsworthy story, for those who care to know. ( If you want to know more about The Price Is Right, the testimonies, evidence, rulings, etc. are all public record now, and available at Los Angeles Superior Court and accessible online.) Go and see for yourself. Or be glad that there are reporters like Mann who get behind the scenes, get the interviews and report ALL the facts fairly and accurately. And be grateful that there is an independent outlet like Radar Magazine that can tell the story beyond a network press release.
A word of warning: If you don't like what you've read in Radar, you're probably not going to like all that's coming. There's another lawsuit against Bob Barker in the works that's based on racism. Now that he's off Price there are books by people from the cast and crew, in the courtrooms, a behind-the-scenes TV movie, etc., able now to tell the real stories of the Price Is Right......stay tuned.
My best friend worked on Price for years. She was outstanding at her job, made a good salary, had children. Unfortunately she had the bad luck misfortune to be in the dressing room next-door when Bob Barker fired Holly because of her weight (a fact he would later deny because of negative audience backlash, then claim Holly was lying and sue her for slander).
What do you do when you know that if you tell the truth, you'll lose your job? I watched my dear friend go thru Hell because of Bob Barker. She was a smoking gun in the "who's telling the truth, Bob or Holly" drama. She was pressured to change her testimony in order to back Bob, to lie and ignore what she had heard. Her job was threatened. (Would YOU lie to keep your job?)
In the end my friend testified truthfully and lost her job, as did other Price employees whose testimonies, along with evidence clearly showed that Barker did in fact fire Holly because of her weight (duh!). Models Janice and Kathleen were NOT fired for being old, as the Price mythology explains it, but rather for the facts they told at their depositions. Their testimony along with others devastated Barker's lawsuit against Holly. Barker was livid. Heads rolled. People lost their jobs. And for what? In the end Barker wasn't about to go to court and lose, so he dumped his lawsuit. Holly was declared the winner, and got millions.
But it didn't end there. Firing someone for refusing to perjure themselves is ILLEGAL, as is firing someone for refusing to provide sex or be sexually harassed, or creating a work environment where people can be humiliated and discriminated against because they are African American. These are all things that Bob Barker has been sued for in the last ten years, and he has never won any. Millions of corporate dollars have been spent in out-of-court settlements to make the charges against him go away. In the business world it's well known that it's "better to settle" if you know you're going to lose.
But as sweet as all that settlement money was for those people who were illegally fired, how hard must it have it been these past weeks watching the CBS/Barker media machine proclaiming Bob a daytime TV hero? ("Pay no attention to those lawsuits behind the curtain!") The man ruled that show with an iron fist. What about the people who lost their jobs because they wouldn't lie for this man, or have sex with him? And why was there only one reporter in the entire media who could dig back far enough (thirty years) to find an original Price castmember to say something nice about Bob Barker now?
Finally there is Chris Mann's article in Radar. For those people who actually know Bob Barker, Mann's article is a surprisingly accurate portrayal of the real person. Bob Barker is a game show host that is beloved by his TV audience, but not well liked by people who work for him. He IS mean, vindictive and sadly alone. Mann presented an in depth portrait of the man. Radar reported many sides of a newsworthy story, for those who care to know. ( If you want to know more about The Price Is Right, the testimonies, evidence, rulings, etc. are all public record now, and available at Los Angeles Superior Court and accessible online.) Go and see for yourself. Or be glad that there are reporters like Mann who get behind the scenes, get the interviews and report ALL the facts fairly and accurately. And be grateful that there is an independent outlet like Radar Magazine that can tell the story beyond a network press release.
A word of warning: If you don't like what you've read in Radar, you're probably not going to like all that's coming. There's another lawsuit against Bob Barker in the works that's based on racism. Now that he's off Price there are books by people from the cast and crew, in the courtrooms, a behind-the-scenes TV movie, etc., able now to tell the real stories of the Price Is Right......stay tuned.