Regardless of The Price Is Right being some of the fashionable exhibits in sport present historical past, not every thing that occurs on set is one thing to smile about. For the sport present mannequin and one among Bob Barker‘s former beauties, Janice Pennington, an accident that occurred whereas filming modified the trajectory of her profession without end.
Again in 1988, Janice Pennington was knocked off the stage by a camera, the place she fell into the contestants’ row. Her fall was so laborious that it knocked her unconscious. Regardless of the severity of the damage, which concerned somebody that Bob Barker knew personally, the present continued whereas Pennington was being transported to the hospital. After a 45-minute hindrance that was attributable to Janice being transferred onto a stretcher after which into the ambulance, the cameras had been again to rolling. After two surgical procedures, Pennington was left with one shoulder an inch shorter than the opposite, and ugly scars that prevented her from carrying swimsuits to work ever once more.
‘The Value Is Proper’ Fired Janice Pennington
Regardless of every thing Janice had been by means of on The Value Is Proper — particularly the results of her surgical procedure, which was career-ending for a mannequin — she confronted one more setback. In October 2000, after 29 years on the present alongside Bob Barker, Janice was dealt one other blow when she was let go from her duties, according to The LA Times.
Janice claimed that though she and Bob Barker labored side-by-side for nearly three many years, he by no means stated a phrase to her as soon as she was let go from the present. “My supervisor known as Barker the following day and left a message, however he by no means returned our name.” No correct goodbye, no send-off on The Value is Proper, and no phrase to her supervisor both, though Janice said that her supervisor reached out. Barker claimed that he did return her managers’ name, solely after Janice agreed to signal a settlement which prevented her from talking about her dismissal from The Value Is Proper.
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Each Janice Pennington and Bob Barker had two totally different tales about how this sequence of occasions performed out. “[Pearson Television] didn’t need me to change into concerned in any approach. However on the very day Janice signed the settlement, I left a message on her answering machine and advised her that I needed to clarify why I had not known as even sooner. And she or he has not returned my name.” Barker claimed that Pennington was the one who determined to not attain again out. Nevertheless, Pennington stated that she and Barker had barely had a dialog for the reason that summer season earlier than she was fired. No matter who reached out first, the scenario escalated rapidly. And Janice Pennington was not the one lady with a rocky relationship with Bob Barker who was let go from The Price Is Right.
A number of Ladies Had been Let Go Over the Years
One other assistant on the present, Kathleen Bradley, was fired the identical day as Pennington. Curiously, Bradley blamed Bob Barker for her and Pennington’s firings. In accordance with Bradley, she believed that she and Pennington had been let go from The Price Is Right as a consequence of their testimony given in a wrongful termination lawsuit, filed by one other former colleague of theirs, Holly Hallstrom. Holly claimed that she was fired due to weight gain. Bob Barker denied these accusations.
Kathleen Bradley referred to their firings as “retaliation.” She claimed that because of Kathleen and Janice’s testimonies in court, Bob Barker gave them the boot. “He was upset as a result of my reality and his reality had been totally different. If I [hadn’t] needed to testify, I’d nonetheless be a Barker’s Magnificence,” Bradley stated to The LA Instances. Bob Barker responded by calling the accusation “completely unfounded,” and claimed that it was not his determination. Each Janice and Kathleen stated they got no good purpose for his or her firings, and no correct goodbye from Barker or Pearson. The Value Is Proper is out there to stream on Paramount Plus within the US.
Supply: LA Times
