Price Is Rights Drew Carey shares candid feelings | TV Shows

The Price Is Right‘s Drew Carey has always been candid about what it’s been like hosting the hit CBS game show since 2007.

Now, he’s opened up about one strange aspect of his hosting duties: watching himself on TV.

The 66-year-old, who recently concerned viewers with how players manhandle him, shared his honest feelings about the subject while celebrating the long-awaited release of the 30th anniversary edition of The Drew Carey Show: The Complete Series on DVD.

“Not a lot of my fans know [that] I don’t like watching myself on TV. I have a real hard time,” he told Parade. “I’ve sat in the editing room a few times on The Drew Carey Show, and I had to leave.

“I don’t do it that often because every time I saw it, I was like, ‘That’s what I look like? And that’s [how] I walk?’ I get so tired of seeing myself.”

“Thoughts of dying on stage with a microphone in my hand have gone through my mind,” he laughed. “I never want to leave. I’m having such a good time there. Everybody treats me great and the cast is great and the production office is great.”

“I really feel supported and loved there and wanted,” Carey continued. “When you’re 65 and in the entertainment business, you don’t really get that that often. I’m in a pretty rare situation so I wanna keep that going as long as I can.”

In 2007, Carey took over hosting the beloved game show from Bob Barker and since then, he’s made the show his own, adding a new set, logo and theme music.

Despite making falling into the role perfectly and honing his skills as host over the years, Carey told People earlier, in March 2024, that he initially turned the role down.

“I said, f— no,” the comedian recalled at the time. “I just wanted to be able to do things that were fun and interesting instead of having a ‘job-job’ or something I had to do every day, because I just had, after being on The Drew Carey Show and everything, I was done with the idea of just being on a show forever.”

Carey revealed that he quickly changed his mind after realizing his dreams of buying a Major League Soccer team — or, at least becoming a part-owner of one.

“I knew how much money it was going to take for that to happen,” he explained. “Then one of the show’s producers asked me what my favorite thing to do was. I go, ‘I love leaving big tips when I go to restaurants.’

“‘Well, if you work on The Price Is Right, you’ll be able to do that all the time for a living,’ they said. ‘Just give out things.’ That was the light bulb that went off in my head.

“I could just make a living giving prizes to people and being around happy people all day. I met [my agent] at a steakhouse. … And I go, ‘I think I want to be the host of The Price is Right.’ He shook my hand and goes, ‘Well, there’s your soccer money.’”