Mike Walker (January 16, 1946 – February 16, 2018) was an American

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and

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'',Yalor, Tanis (5 October 2001)
Mike Walker - Interview
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'', Retrieved December 14, 2010 and hosted the magazine's

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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-produced

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, '' 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 ''

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'' 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).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?
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'', Retrieved December 14, 2010 It debuted at #1 on the non-fiction side of the ''Times'' Best Seller list on November 6, 1994.(6 November 1994)
BEST SELLERS: November 6, 1994
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'', Retrieved December 14, 2010 Walker had a weekly radio show on KABC,

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. Walker grew up in

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and started working for the ''Enquirer'' in 1970.Hughes, Scott (25 May 1998)
CV: MIKE WALKER Gossip columnist, 'The National Enquirer'
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'', Retrieved December 14, 2010 On February 16, 2018, writer A. J. Benza tweeted that Walker had died.

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