Wheel Of Fortune’s Vanna White looks unrecognizable as she shares emotional memory with Bob Barker on Price Is Right

WHEEL Of Fortune star Vanna White looks unrecognizable as she shares an emotional memory with Bob Barker on Price Is Right.

Vanna, 66, was on Price Is Right as a contestant in 1980 – two years before she joined Wheel of Fortune.

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Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White was a contestant on Price is Right in 1980Credit: CBS

Vanna shared a sweet tribute post to Bob BarkerCredit: CBS
The game show star shared a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, commemorating her time on the game show.

Vanna shared a photo of herself from the episode which was filmed 43 years ago.

She was 23 years old when she was on the episode, and looks unrecognizable in the throwback photo with an ear-to-ear smile.

Vanna captioned her post: “When I moved to LA in 1980, I was on Price Is Right and met Bob Barker.

“Thank you Bob for introducing me to the game show world!

“We will miss you,” she concluded.

GET SERIOUS

In the episode Vanna was a contestant on, she ran down to the stage with much excitement.

As Bob entered the stage, he said: “Backstage, they have monitors where the fellas on the crew can watch and see what’s going on out here.”

He continued: “When Vanna was invited to come on down, one of them read her t-shirt where it said ‘Get Serious,’ and he said, ‘I am!'”

Bob smiled at Vanna and said: “I thought you’d like to know that.”

Vanna didn’t win anything in the episode, but Bob roasted her for asking for the the bids again.

When Vanna asked for the bid numbers from the previous contestants, Bob told her: “You’re too busy looking at yourself in the monitor to know what’s going on.”

ICON GONE

Bob reportedly passed away on the morning of Saturday, August 26, 2023, in his home due to natural causes.

He was 99 at the time of his death.

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

Bob is survived by his half-brother, Kent Valandra, and his longtime partner Nancy Burnet, who broke her silence earlier today.

Nancy, 79, began dating Bob back in 1983 – but they never married after Barker’s first wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, died in 1981.

Nancy broke her silence after Bob’s death by stating she was “so proud of the trailblazing work” they accomplished “together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry.”

Bob was passionate about animal rights, and Nancy is the president of United Activists for Animal Rights.

Nancy also shared that Bob used his fame to “improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally.”e

“We were great friends over these 40 years,” the mother-of-two told Page Six.

Nancy concluded: “He will be missed.”

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Vanna was on Price is Right two years before she started Wheel of FortuneCredit: CBS

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The star’s throwback photo was from 43 years agoCredit: Getty

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Vanna thanked Bob for ‘introducing her to the game world’Credit: Getty