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I’ve had little sections done-a little brow lift or a little something lipoed from under my chin. “What I’ve done is gone in and had, like, the bags taken care of under my eyes. “I’ve never gone in and had a head-to-toe sort of thing,” says the model, explaining that the show’s year-round taping schedule-with only a six-week summertime hiatus, prevented any radical overhauls. To maintain her all-important youth, Pennington has undergone several cosmetic touch-ups through the years. Walking into the dining room of the Regent Beverly Wilshire, dressed in silver hoop earrings, a form-hugging black turtleneck and tight black leather pants (which no doubt would drive animal rights crusader Barker nuts), Pennington looks years younger than 58. While all parties involved have conflicting stories to tell, whichever way you look at it, all the behind-the-scenes bickering and ugliness boils down to one real-life contest no one can win: aging and physical change, coupled with the institutionalized insecurity of show business. Pennington says the two had barely spoken since this past summer, and fellow on-air assistant Kathleen Bradley, who was dismissed the same day as Pennington, blames Barker for their firings. The amicable relationship between Barker and Pennington on the show, as it turns out, was just another Hollywood illusion. “But on the very day Janice signed the agreement I left a message on her answering machine and told her that I wanted to explain why I had not called even sooner. " did not want me to become involved in any way,” explains Barker, saying that he left the studio prior to the firing of his longtime girl Friday. “My manager called Barker the next day and left a message, but he never returned our call.”īarker, who today celebrates his 77th birthday, says he did return the call-but only after Pennington signed a settlement, forbidding her from discussing details of her dismissal by Pearson Television, the production company that had assumed ownership of the show that Oct. “He never said a word,” says Pennington, whose final appearance Wednesday will have no mention of her departure. 19 taping (which will air on Wednesday), without so much as a handshake from Barker. After 29 years of handing off the microphone to host Bob Barker at the start of more than 6,000 shows since its 1971 premiere, Pennington was dismissed immediately following the Oct. Then this past October, Pennington received a hit of another sort.
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Ugly scars from the operations prevented her from ever again wearing her trademark swimsuits. Two surgeries later, the stately “Barker’s Beauty” was left with one shoulder an inch shorter than the other. After a 45-minute delay during which Pennington was transferred by stretcher to an ambulance, the show continued without her. In 1988, “The Price Is Right” game-show model Janice Pennington was knocked off the stage into “contestants’ row” by a wayward camera and rendered unconscious.