'Price Is Right' Announcer Rod Roddy Dies
LOS ANGELES - Rod Roddy, the flamboyantly dressed announcer on "The Price is Right" whose booming, jovial voice invited lucky audience members to "Come on down!" for nearly 20 years, has died. He was 66.
Roddy, who suffered from colon and breast cancer (news - web sites), died Monday at Century City Hospital, according to his longtime agent, Don Pitts. He had been hospitalized for two months.
"He had such a strong spirit. He just wouldn't give up," Pitts said Monday.
Roddy had been ill for more than two years but tried to work as long as he could, said Bob Barker, host of "The Price is Right." Roddy had been with the game show for 17 years.
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There was nothing better than staying home from school when one was "sick" and being able to watch the Price is Right and Sale of the Century. Then all those crappy soap operas would come on, and you would stare at the clock waiting for 3 or 4 when cartoons would come on.
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