Who Is Bob Barker's Girlfriend? All About Nancy Burnet

Bob Barker found love again.

The former The Price Is Right host was first linked to Nancy Burnet in 1983 — two years after the death of his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon. Barker and Burnet were together for four decades until the TV legend died of natural causes in August 2023. He was 99 years old.

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

Meanwhile, Burnet's statement read, “I am so proud of the trailblazing work Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry. We were great friends over these 40 years. He will be missed.”

Later that month, she reminisced about her life with Barker in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.

"I did not baby him or fawn over him," Burnet shared. "I was very honest and direct with him. Everybody needs someone to keep them at ground level, and I was that person. I think he could depend on me, and he trusted me and respected me."

On what would have been Barker's 100th birthday, Burnet spoke with Entertainment Tonight about her longtime love.

"He had a really wonderful, charmed life," she told the outlet, adding that if Barker had been alive to witness turning a century old, he'd have said, "I'm just as cute as I ever was."

Here’s everything to know about Nancy Burnet and her decades-long relationship with Bob Barker.

She and Barker met in 1983

Burnet and Barker met at an animal adoption event on March 27, 1983, hosted by Barker and actor Earl Holliman, per Fox News.

At the time, Burnet was not very familiar with The Price Is Right or Barker, but when a friend told her about his involvement in the spay-neuter movement, she was intrigued. She approached him about a different project, and they connected over a shared love of animal rights advocacy.

“I knew almost nothing about him really,” Burnet recalled in an August 2023 interview with PEOPLE. “I knew he did The Price Is Right. I knew that he was interested in animals, and he had the format to get the word out.”

She’s the president of a nonprofit organization

Burnet founded United Activists for Animal Rights in 1987, an animal rights group based in California. She serves as the president of the organization, which is supported by Barker.

She has also served as the director of the DJ&T Foundation since 2000. Founded in 1994 by Barker, the foundation provides spaying and neutering services at a low cost. DJ&T was named after Barker’s late wife Gideon and mother Matilda "Tillie" Barker.

She and Barker got involved with animals everywhere they went

Though the couple were committed to animal rights at home, it’s also something that had a tendency to follow them on their travels.

"Just about everywhere we ever traveled, we became involved in some animal issue or something," she told Fox News. During one trip to the Cayman Islands, they attempted to organize a protest after learning a circus was coming to town.

"They were happy to see us leave Cayman," she shared.

On a trip to Hawaii, something similar happened when the pair found an injured pit bull loose in a tourist area begging for food. The two believed the dog had been in a fight since they saw a piece of the skin on its side had been ripped away.

"We found out that it wasn't dog fighting at all. It was because of hunting pigs with pits," Burnet said. "And so we tried to get a campaign going for that, and they were happy to see us leave there. We weren't welcome in a lot of places."

She worked on Barker’s “greatest living legacy”

In 2018, Barker donated over 400 acres in Moreno Valley, California, to DonkeyLand, a nonprofit rescue organization that works with injured and sick wild donkeys and burros.

This land helped fence off part of the property so the animals can be protected and still roaming freely. Burnet called the donation Barker’s “greatest living legacy,” and in total, he has donated millions of dollars to DonkeyLand through his charitable organizations.

"That was a disaster," she told Fox News. "Donkeys were being hit by cars, trains, it was a hideous situation."

"Five hundred acres that's fenced and that's thanks to Bob Barker and Nancy Burnet and the foundation for the generous contributions for the sanctuary and the fencing," Chad Cheatham, vice president of Donkeyland, told NBC Los Angeles.

Barker said he would never remarry

After the death of his wife of 36 years, Barker remained committed to keeping Gideon’s memory alive and kept true to his word that he would never remarry.

"She was with me all the time until she died," Barker told Esquire in 2007. "For some men, maybe a second or third marriage would work out fine. In my case, I had my marriage and she was the love of my life."

Despite their decades-long relationship, Barker and Burnet never tied the knot. But after Barker's death in August 2023, Burnet revealed during an interview with PEOPLE that Barker did consider tying the knot again.

"Neither of us had any desire ever to be married again, and he believed it when we first started seeing each other," she said. "But as the years went by, he proposed to me many times. I just said, 'I just don't want to be married.' Our humor was very dry. We kidded in a way. And he said, 'Not even to me?' And I said, 'Especially not to you.' "

Burnet claimed that in 2011, Barker had his attorney draft a prenup without consulting her.

"He had his attorney send it to me," she recalled. "I said, 'I just don't want to do this. I'm not going to accept this.' And he said, 'Well, if you don't like the terms of the prenup, take it to your own attorney. You can change it.' I never did do it."

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