Is Former 'Price Is Right' Host Bob Barker Dead At Age 94?

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The former game show host suffered a head injury in June 2017, but he did not die.

Kim LaCapria

Published July 31, 2017

Image courtesy of Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com Claim: 'The Price is Right' host Bob Barker died in July 2017, after falling and hitting his head at his home. Rating: False

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In July 2017, a web site called The Price Is Right game show host Bob Barker had died of a head injury sustained in a fall at home:

Bob Barker was rushed to the emergency room after a fall that split his head open. Several hours later, he was pronounced dead.

The 94-year-old former The Price Is Right host suffered a nearly two inch laceration on the side of his forehead due to a fall that took place near the star's Hollywood Hills home.

'Bob was taking a walk at around 10:30 AM near his Hollywood Hills home when he tripped on the sidewalk,' police reported.

Police administered aid and called the paramedics. Barker was then taken to Cedars-Sinai hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:34 p.m.

As is often the case with the celebrity death hoax form of fake news, one single, disreputable source reported what would have been major entertainment news covered by multiple national news outlet if it were true. There was a nugget of truth in the hoax, as People magazine had recently