A former employee of The Price Is Right is suing Bob Barker and CBS for wrongful demotion.

After testifying in a wrongful discrimination suit against Barker, Deborah Curling claims she was moved to an “intolerable” working environment back stage.

Hello, what could be intolerable about watching hundreds of people live their dreams by guessing the price of a can of SpaghettiO’s?

Curling, who is black, also claims that the show was hostile to black employees and discriminatory to black contestants.

According to the lawsuit, "Barker created an atmosphere of terror on the show.”

Look, it’s in the rules of The Price Is Right that if your bid is over the retail price, you lose.

When choosing Bob Barker's successor on The Price Is Right, CBS producers had the choice of sitcom star/overweight improv comic Drew Carey, loudmouthed lesbian Rosie O'Donnell (endorsed by none other than Barker himself) and washed-up Beverly Hills 90210 star, Ian Ziering.

After Rosie took herself out of the race, producers inexplicably passed over Ziering and went with the more successful, more widely recognizable and generally more impressive Carey.

"I guess I was a little disappointed," Ziering, 43, told PEOPLE at Tuesday's The Simpsons Movie premiere in Westwood, Calif. "I was really kind of hoping that would happen…For the last month, I've been so titillated, my family has been excited at the mere notion of me hosting The Price is Right."

When asked to explain their decision, producers admitted they "never really liked" Steve Sanders, citing his "doofy hair" and "annoying self-righteous attitude" as undeniable character flaws. Meanwhile, they acknowledged that Drew Carey was only "sort of funny," but pointed out that Whose Line Is It Anyway? reruns are a huge hit amongst the "unfunny, middle-aged white person demographic."

Whether you thought it was a match made in tv game show heaven or an embarrassment to Bob Barker's legacy, Rosie's bid to host The Price of Right may be in jeopardy.

And while negotiations for the deal (or no deal) continue, inside sources are saying a family feud may preclude O'Donnell from making the move to the west coast. Apparently, Rosie's partner Kelly has nixed the idea, and O'Donnell herself isn't thrilled about living amongst all those Hollywood "squares."

When reached for comment, Rosie reaffirmed that monetary concerns were not the issue, adding, "When you're married, with kids, this is your life. Besides, who wants to be a millionaire?"

Does Rosie O have what it takes to fill Bob Barker's topsiders on the set of The Price Is Right? Barker seems to think so, but then again, he's just some crazy unemployed old guy. In any event, Rosie's meeting with the networks to figure out whether the idea has potential. Although, for her part, Rosie says she's down.

"If they asked me/i sure would," O'Donnell wrote in her quirky blog style at Rosie.com.

"She knows the show," Barker told reporters after getting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. "There's no doubt in my mind she could do the show. Now, whether they want a lady host, I don't know. I've never heard that discussed. As far as I know, they've only auditioned men."

Asked about Barker's shout-out, O'Donnell wrote: "I KNOW/ FANTASTIC/I LOVE THE PRICE IS RIGHT."

Wow/her style/isquirky!

Meanwhile, insiders say Barker's comments mark the first time Rosie was characterized as a "lady" since the day she informed her parents that she wanted a pants-suit for her 10th birthday.

Days after officially stepping down as host of CBS' The Price Is Right, Bob Barker has already endorsed his pal Rosie O'Donnell to take over the reigns. However, while Rosie fights for her right to Plinko, we're far more concerned with Barker's next move.

And after years of making everyone else's dreams come true (assuming their dreams involved winning a Toyota Corolla and/or garishly upholstered lounge chairs) it's time for Bob to pursue his own secret ambitions. And while he's said to have politely declined the opportunity to appear on the next season of The Surreal Life, Barker isn't quite ready to leave showbiz just yet.

In fact, word has it, he has his eye on becoming the newest fast-cracking announcer over at ESPN's SportsCenter. Thankfully, we've somehow gotten our hands on his "audition tape," so take a look and let us know whether "Air Barker" has what it takes to follow in Keith Olbermann's illustrious footsteps.

After some 50 years in the TV business, Bob Barker is done wittit. Sure, that CBS special last month may have made you think he retired his The Price Is Right gig, but no: yesterday, in fact, was his last day. Which meant today it was time to make the press rounds, which included Ann Curry's overzealous expressions while listening to him on speaker phone.

• Penthouse magazine attempts to disguise dirty, dirty porn as "art."

• Bob Barker spins the wheel, commits his very last act of sexual harassment as host of The Price Is Right.

• CNN anchor Heidi Collins is thrilled at being forced to cover Paris Hilton.

• If Conrad Black is going down, he's taking his old company with him. Sun-Times, formerly Hollinger International Inc., "has endured a 46 percent drop in its stock price since Black was ousted as chairman in January 2004." And they say crime doesn't pay!

• The 2007 Webby Awards are five-and-half-hours we'll never get back. But at least they had toilet humor!

• With Rupert Murdoch (possibly) taking over Dow Jones, the solution is simple: the Financial Times should simply hire the top 100 Wall Street reporters, and beat Murdoch to the punch.

• While contemplating life after The Price is Right, Bob Barker realizes he'll miss playing Plinko the most. That, and getting blitzed on sherry then hitting on the spokesmodels before every show.

• Lou Dobbs still in hot water for calling illegal immigrants a bunch of job-stealing lepers.

• Times' Managing Editor, Jill Abramson, was in a traffic accident yesterday that involved a private sanitation truck rolling over her foot and a whole lot of morphine.

• British newspapers mercilessly mock President Bush for his unintentionally awkward reception of the queen.

• Word to the wise: if you're going to engage in insider trading, don't go overboard and buy $15,000,000 worth of shares.

• Meanwhile, Conrad Black is officially screwed. And not in the "good" way.

• CBS just renewed Dave Price weatherman gig on The Early Show, and now might be lookin to him for replace Bob Barker on The Price Is Right. Hopefully there's room in the budget, since it's rumored Les Moonves had to pay Barker to retire and get him out of his contract, which required the show go dark for a year after his departure. [P6]

• With no Kitson or D&G at rehab, what's Nicole Richie to do but check out for the day and get a Centurion card workout? [Scoop]

• The Mississippi news producer who booked Borat for an on-air segment is regretting not using a news professional's first line of defense: Google. [Fox 411]

• Jay Leno will leave the Oscar hosting duties to the lesbian. [Planet Gossip]

• Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are teaming up for a new sitcom loosely based on their lives: two best friends, both writers, one gay, one straight. And their hot young assistants. Oh, the power to produce a show based on the life you wish you had. [THR]

• When young Hollywood and young socialites pair up, they can't get past the doorman. [P6]

As we wave goodbye to Bob Barker as the host of The Price Is Right host – which, we're often ashamed to tell friends, we TiVo – we mulled over the many ways we could bid farewell. But why try to outshine these winners?

• Bob Barker — The Price Is No Longer Right, TMZ

• Bob Barker Bids Bye Bye, Cinema Blend

• Time is 'Right' for Barker to quit, NYDN

• Barker nearing final call to 'come on down', Vancouver Sun

• Soon, Bob Barker Will No Longer Have To Pretend That A Busty College Girl Bidding $1 On A Refrigerator Is The Cleverest Strategy He's Ever Heard, Defamer

• Arts, Briefly, NYT