He was not great to be around.
from a fan who asked,"What was bob hope like If you met him i have heard conflicting stories about him.""He was an [expletive] that made a living off of the troops," the star replied."Plus he got plenty of [expletive] doing it. A miserable human being. Not from me. I was Miss Palm Springs here and just turned 17."
In the tweet, Van Doren shared a photo of herself standing next to Hope when she was Miss Palm Springs. The comedian had also been a frequent beauty pageant host during his career, which may explain how they met.Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Imagesand made a claim that he had come on to her when she was very young.
"I was just the right age for Mr Hope….16," Van Doren wrote."Because I turned him down he would never invite me to work with him." When Van Doren was 16, Hope would have been in his mid-40s.In her Facebook post, Van Doren also cast doubt on the assumption that Hope's work with the USO was done out of the goodness of his heart."Bob Hope made millions of dollars off entertaining the troops," the star continued."Those tours were sold to NBC.
"Worst of all, he wasn't funny," Van Doren added."He was surrounded by writers all the time, and couldn't be funny without them."
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