While Bob Barker and Nancy Burnet cared deeply for each other, Barker didn’t have a desire to get married again. The star had already been in a long-term marriage and wanted to honor his wife Dorothy Jo Gideon after her death in 1981. He said, “I never had any inclination to remarry. She was my wife,” per Good Morning America. In 2007, Barker told Esquire, “She was with me all the time until she died.” He continued, “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.”
Barker and Gideon were high school sweethearts and tied the knot in 1945, per People. They were head over heels for one another, as Barker once told the outlet, “We fell in love as kids. And we stayed in love.” Barker continued to commemorate his wife after she died. In 2017, photos showed him at Gideon’s gravesite on the 36th anniversary of her passing, per the New York Daily News. He set down a bouquet of white daisies by her grave and polished her headstone.
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