Mike Walker (columnist)

Mike Walker
Occupation	Gossip columnist, Radio personality
Website
www.thegossipgame.com

Mike Walker is a gossip columnist for The National Enquirer,^[1] and hosted the magazine's 1999-2001 MGM-produced newsmagazine, National Enquirer TV. He is also the author of the 2005 book, Rather Dumb: A Top Tabloid Reporter Tells CBS How to Do News. Between April 11, 1996 and December 2010, Walker was a guest every week on The Howard Stern Show to play "The Gossip Game." He would read four gossip stories, and the Stern crew guesses which one is false.

Walker co-wrote with Faye Resnick the #1 New York Times best-selling book about the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Nicole Brown Simpson: Private Diary of a Life Interrupted (1994) (which as of October 1995, had reportedly sold 550,000 copies).^[2] It debuted at #1 on the non-fiction side of the Times bestseller list on November 6, 1994.^[3]

Walker had a weekly radio show on KABC, Los Angeles, California.

Walker grew up in Boston and started working for the Enquirer in 1970.^[4]

It is also known that Mike Walker visited the Howard Stern Show, and was the cause of the infamous Mike Walker Fart, in witch Sal Governale and Richard Christie recorded him releasing gas during a radio appearance.

References

1. ^ Yalor, Tanis (5 October 2001). Mike Walker - Interview, Metro (British newspaper), Retrieved December 14, 2010
2. ^ Tabor, Mary B.W. (1 October 1995). Word for Word: An O.J. Biography; Is There Anyone Who Hasn't Milked the Trial of Juice?, The New York Times, Retrieved December 14, 2010
3. ^ (6 November 1994). BEST SELLERS: November 6, 1994, The New York Times, Retrieved December 14, 2010
4. ^ Hughes, Scott (25 May 1998). CV: MIKE WALKER Gossip columnist, 'The National Enquirer', The Independent, Retrieved December 14, 2010

External links

• The Gossip Game

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