Marc Summers Backs Bob Barker Claims, Says Docuseries Was 'True and Then Some' at 74
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 1
Marc Summers Backs Bob Barker Claims, Says Docuseries Was 'True and Then Some' at 74
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 1
Summary
Marc Summers, 74, said allegations in E!'s "Dirty Rotten Scandals" about Bob Barker were "true and then some," adding he knew off-camera stories "that make your hair curl."
Summers said Barker changed after wife Dorothy Jo died in 1981, describing an outsized ego symbolized by a "WGMC" — "World's Greatest MC" — sign that Barker once refused to tape without.
He also recounted being paid just $50 after writing 50 game-show questions for Barker, using the anecdote to illustrate what he called Barker's behavior behind the scenes.
The docuseries revisited claims from former model Holly Hallstrom, who said she was fired in 1995 after refusing to back Barker against Dian Parkinson's 1994 sexual-harassment lawsuit.
Barker, who died in 2023 at 99, long denied wrongdoing; his publicist and former producer Roger Dobkowitz have rejected the series, with Hallstrom later reaching a multimillion-dollar settlement with CBS.