SAD LAST DAYS OF BELOVED STARS

BOB BARKER

AT 97, “The Price Is Right” legend is fading fast 14 years after leaving the popular show.

Now insiders fear Bob Barker may be heading for the final Showcase Showdown. The increasingly frail game show icon no longer tends the backyard garden at his Hollywood home, and has a full-time caretaker to prepare his meals and groom him, sources said. Bob was once a regular at the grave of his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, who died of cancer in 1981, but those visits are now few and far between. “His friends believe he won’t last much longer,” a source spilled.

Bob was once a regular at the grave of his wife, but those visits are now rarer, an insider spilled Continued on page 16 NOW

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