Mike Walker | |
Birth Date: | January 16, 1946 |
Occupation: | Gossip columnist, radio personality |
Website: | www.thegossipgame.com |
Mike Walker (January 16, 1946 – February 16, 2018) was an American radio personality and gossip columnist for The National Enquirer,[1] and hosted the magazine's 1999–2001 MGM-produced newsmagazine, National Enquirer TV. He was 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 guessed 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 Best Seller 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]
On February 16, 2018, self-styled writer and TV personality A. J. Benza tweeted that Walker had died.[5]