Author Topic: Holly Hallstrom News (Read 12559 times)

chris319 · « **on:** October 24, 2005, 04:34:22 PM »

Be sure to watch today's (Monday 10/24) edition of The Insider for news about Holly Hallstrom and her legal action involving The Price Is Right.

The Insider is hosted by Pat O'Brien.

FOXSportsFan · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2005, 05:26:31 PM »

Or as his peeps call him, the Notorious P.O.B., HOLLA!

joe_capitano · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2005, 06:04:12 PM »

Holly appeared on the Today Show this morning as well. The segment can be found on today.msnbc.com (#4 on Monday's video list - click the right arrow three times and you should see a familiar face).

By the way, she is a tad chunkier than she once was, but to me she still looks like a million bucks.

chris319 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2005, 06:15:54 PM »

I am totally rooting for Holly. For Barker to sue her after dumping her from the show tells you what kind of guy Bob Barker is.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2005, 06:24:30 PM »

Where did NBC get the footage from? I guess I'm not sure why Freemantle Media would provide them with footage for a negative segment on a competitor's network.

clemon79 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2005, 06:36:04 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 03:15 PM\']I am totally rooting for Holly. For Barker to sue her after dumping her from the show tells you what kind of guy Bob Barker is.

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Nothin' to root for, she says in the piece that the settlement check (whose value she would not divulge, save to confirm that it was in "millions") cleared last week. She's already a winner.

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 03:24 PM\']Where did NBC get the footage from? I guess I'm not sure why Freemantle Media would provide them with footage for a negative segment on a competitor's network.

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I'm sure all of that came from file footage. Once you have footage, you have footage, it's not like you have to pay for it to use it again. I'm sure they got that file way back for some kind of story (or it just came down as file, for any number of reasons), at the time Fremantle gave it up willingly, and now they're getting it on the back end. Betcha any money it was fed when Barker got his Walk Of Fame star, or when they were hyping his birthday, or the renaming of 33.

HYHYBT · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:04:44 PM »

This is a really stupid question, but what was the suit about?

clemon79 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:17:38 PM »

[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 04:04 PM\']This is a really stupid question, but what was the suit about?

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Only a little stupid in that all would have been told if you went to the link and watched the piece, but I could see where for any number of reasons you might not be able to, so: During the whole Dian Parkinson fiasco, Holly claims that Barker asked her to do interviews and such saying what a swell guy he was and that he would never do anything like that and Dian was a liar, and Holly refused. Barker then fired her, citing weight-gain issues from a medication she was taking at the time. She sued for wrongful termination, he counteresued for slander and defamation of character.

urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2005, 08:03:18 PM »

Good for her!

Now here's hoping we can move on and enjoy the show.

Don Howard · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2005, 08:48:07 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 03:34 PM\']The Insider is hosted by Pat O'Brien.

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And he's wonderful in it....especially if one is watching while taking a bubble bath.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2005, 08:49:59 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 07:48 PM\']And he's wonderful in it....especially if one is watching while taking a bubble bath.
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The mental images....they hurt....my head...

chris319 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2005, 03:01:02 AM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 05:48 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 24 2005, 03:34 PM\']The Insider is hosted by Pat O'Brien.

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And he's wonderful in it....especially if one is watching while taking a bubble bath.

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Visions of Jimmy Joe Jeeter.

chris319 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 25, 2005, 03:29:21 AM »

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She sued for wrongful termination, he counteresued for slander and defamation of character.

It's acutally the other way around. Barker brought the slander suit first and she countersued for wrongful termination.

In my opinion, Holly going around saying she was fired for being overweight is not sufficiently damaging to Barker's reputation to merit a judgement for defamation. It may put a chink in Barker's gargantuan ego but it is not the stuff of defamation awards. If Barker had swallowed and not brought his suit, maybe Holly wouldn't have brought the countersuit in which she prevailed. My opinion: Barker's ego has cost the defendants an amount in the upper seven figures.

clemon79 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 25, 2005, 11:44:13 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 25 2005, 12:29 AM\']It's acutally the other way around. Barker brought the slander suit first and she countersued for wrongful termination.
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Okay. That was how she couched it in the Today interview, that she sued and he countersued. I sit corrected.

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Johnissoevil · « **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2005, 02:42:11 PM »

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She sued for wrongful termination, he counteresued for slander and defamation of character.

It's acutally the other way around. Barker brought the slander suit first and she countersued for wrongful termination.

In my opinion, Holly going around saying she was fired for being overweight is not sufficiently damaging to Barker's reputation to merit a judgement for defamation. It may put a chink in Barker's gargantuan ego but it is not the stuff of defamation awards. If Barker had swallowed and not brought his suit, maybe Holly wouldn't have brought the countersuit in which she prevailed. My opinion: Barker's ego has cost the defendants an amount in the upper seven figures.

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I don't understand how Goodson cancelled Feud and threw Dawson in the trash after just 9 years, yet he had someone like Barker working for him for the last 20 freaking years of his life.