In an interview for the Palm Beach Post, game show host Bob Barker, who’s written a memoir, talks about the time he was offered a role in a porn flick.

Q: While you were living in Palm Beach, you also did some modeling. That lead to an unlikely offer to appear in a porn movie. What’s the story behind that?

A: (laughs extremely hard): The National Enquirer got an advance copy of the book and that was the one thing they picked out. The headline was ‘Price not right for Bob Barker to become porno star.’ You can imagine what that did. One person tells another person and pretty soon it’s, ‘Bob has been in a pornographic movie.’ The story is I was doing some modeling for Cities Service in Palm Beach. A New York photographer came down and he needed a model. Someone — I don’t know who it was — suggested me. He asked me if I was married and if my wife was pretty. I told him that she was beautiful and he used us as models. For years, we were on the road maps for Cities Service. I told this photographer that eventually we were going to move to California and I wanted to get into radio. This photographer gave me the card of a friend of his who he thought could use me as a model to get a little work while I was trying to break into radio. I called him, made an appointment. He said he couldn’t use me, but he had a friend on Santa Monica Boulevard who might be able to use me so I met this fellow and (the offer to be in a porn flick) was done so diplomatically and gently that I didn’t realize at first what we were talking about. But suddenly it dawned on me that this guy was offering me a part in a pornographic picture! I said, ‘This is just not my thing’ and I fled. I thought it was so funny and I laughed all the way home.

Q: How’d your wife react?
A: She turned around with a straight face and she said, ‘Did you take it?’

Q: Did she want you to take it?
A: (laughing): Oh, nooooo! If there had been an audition, I would’ve never been offered the part.