Bob Barker back on The Price Is Right

He’s BACK! Bob Barker returned to "The Price Is Right"
After nearly two years in retirement, the 85-year-old former game show host was invited to come on down to "The Price Is Right" to promote his upcoming memoir, "Priceless Memories," due out April 6.

Barker on Wednesday once again stood on the set where he had worked for 35 years. As he walked the halls of the studio, old co-workers greeted Barker with broad smiles, seemingly as happy to have him back as he was to be there.

Dressed in a black suit with a hot pink shirt and matching tie, the silver-haired host appeared alongside successor Drew Carey near the finale of the show, which airs April 16, to present two prize showcases that were somewhat stretched to promote Barker's memoir.

One showcase, for example, featured a computer to order the book, a trip to New York City to buy a bundle of the books from the publisher, and a truck to haul them all back in.

"That general idea was in their script, but I shamelessly overacted on a lot of it," Barker said, laughing mischievously in his dressing room after the show.
All 300 members of the show's live studio audience also received a copy of Bob Barkers book.
"I have remarked that I better go back and start doing the show again to get a little rest," Barker said.

But despite his busy lifestyle, the veteran performer said he misses the excitement of "The Price is Right."
"I could never have done this show if I hadn't enjoyed it, and one of the things I enjoyed was the excitement with the audience, the fun with the audience, the responses of the audience," Barker said. "I'd done audience participation my entire adult life."

ESC SIDE NOTE: Did you know that when Bob Barker first started in the entertainment industry he turned to the porn industry for his start? That’s right; Bob Barker was going to become a porn star. Things took a different turn for the young Barker at the time, and now he is who we all know and love today.

Asked at the end of the interview if there was anything else he'd like to add, Barker chuckled and said, just as he had for 35 years on network television: "Help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered."