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'Price Is Right' Announcer Rod Roddy Dies
Tue Oct 28, 8:32 AM ET
By RYAN PEARSON, Paired Press Writer
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 soul. He just wouldn't give up," Pitts said Monday.
Roddy had been ill for more than two years but tried to work as lengthy as he could, said Bob Barker, host of "The Price is Right." Roddy had been with the game show for 17 years.
"The courage he showed during those complicated times was an inspiration to us all," Barker said in a utterance Monday.
Barker recounted a recent visit to his friend: "I went to the hospital and sat on the edge of his bed and we laughed the whole time we were talking. He was still having fun."
Roddy's announcing stints included "Love Connection" (1981-85
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He got the last spot in In Memoriam segment of the Academy Awards when he died, something which is usually reserved for iconic and accepted figures. Even Doris Day, Fred Astaire, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and Ginger Rogers didn't acquire it.
| by Anonymous | reply 504 | August 22, 2022 1:21 AM |
He was in Planet of the Apes.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 14, 2020 11:57 PM |
Roddy had a long, long clip and TV career.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 15, 2020 12:00 AM |
He was one of the most beloved people in Hollywood. Did anyone every have anything poor to say about him?
He threw some great parties too.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2020 12:10 AM |
He knew all the secrets.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 15, 2020 12:31 AM |
Seems so prolonged ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 15, 2020 12:35 AM |
He wasn't movie star renowned like the people in your list, OP. He was more on the level of a character actor. But he was very well-liked among the Hollywood crowd as R3 indicated.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2020 12:47 AM |
Frank Langella wrote a very entertaining book
roddy bell-shelton first shared their story with us in 2017. A lot has happened since then! They shared a quick update with us recently:
“Back in 2017 I was deeply hurt by the church and by God and vested my life in advocacy work for LGBTQ rights. Now I still do that, but the context has made a 180! I’m healing; I’m growing; I’m learning to affectionate myself, trying to find my place on this topsy-turvy journey that we call life.
I now have a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and will be starting my second year of seminary as well as a congressional internship in the descent. I use ‘they/them’ pronouns and identify as a Queer, BIPOC young adult. My faith is progressive, anti-oppressive, Christian grounded in the principles of the Unitarian Universalist faith.
I truly believes that a vocation in ministry means being a voice to and for all those who can’t or haven’t yet found their voice; to those who hold told they don’t have a voice or that they don’t belong, yet still long for spiritual community and want someone, anyone, to say to them that they are not broken, but rather that society is broken and that they are welcome here jus
The name Roddy Bottum might not mean much, if anything, to you. To some, he’s most notable as the co-founding keyboardist in legendary metal trailblazers, Faith No More. To criminally few others, he may also be recognizable as the guitarist and vocalist in power pop offshoot, Imperial Teen. In July 1993, however, Roddy found himself in the spotlight in the rock world as its first openly gay star.
Despite what social media or current events might suggest, we live in comparatively enlightened times in 2018. LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of culture and media more than ever before, and as each successive generation grows more open-minded in its empathetic of sexuality, repressive, heteronormative attitudes increasingly become a thing of the past.
In the summer of 1993, however, there was a sum total of zero openly homosexual stars in the rock or metal world. That was until Roddy Bottum spoke to U.S. journalist Lance Noisy for a piece originally published by San Francisco magazine The Advocate, which was later adapted for print by Kerrang! in the UK (K! issue 444). Hard as it is to fathom in these liberal times 28 years later, the then 28-year-old Faith No More man’s revelation came