Beloved US game show legend Bob Barker dies aged 99

LOS ANGELES – The charismatic host of one of the most popular US television game shows in history, “The Price Is Right’s” Bob Barker, has passed away aged 99, his publicist confirmed Saturday.

For 35 years, audiences in the United States and in many countries around the world watched every weekday as the famously affable Barker called on excited contestants to “Come on down” and test their knowledge of how much consumer goods cost, in return for cash and prizes.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,” his publicist Roger Neal said in a statement to AFP.

He said Barker had died of natural causes in his Hollywood Hills home.

Barker, who won 19 Emmys in his 60-year career in radio and television, hosted “The Price Is Right” — the longest-running game show in North American history — from 1972…