{{short description|American gossip columnist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{more footnotes|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Flo Anthony | image = Flo Anthony.jpg | caption = Flo Anthony | birth_date = March 4 | birth_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | occupation = Gossip columnist, radio host, TV correspondent & author | years_active = 40 years | known_for = }} '''Florence "Flo" Anthony''' is a gossip columnist, syndicated radio host, TV contributor and author. She is a reporter who writes for the gossip page of the ''Philadelphia Sun''. <!-- and The National Examiner--><ref>{{cite news|last1=Armstrong|first1=Jenice|title=On the go with Flo Anthony|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/jenice_armstrong/20140310_On_the_go_with_Flo_Anthony.html|accessdate=September 2, 2017|website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=March 10, 2014}}</ref> Anthony resides in the East Harlem section of New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Flo-Anthony/410156921|title=Flo Anthony|website=Simon & Schuster|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> Flo Anthony married Michael Spinks on January 6, 2026 at the courthouse in New York City after dating him since 1987.
==Biography== Florence Anthony is a graduate of Howard University.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
After working as a publicist for sports legends like Muhammad Ali, Butch Lewis, Michael Spinks, Larry Holmes, Mike McCallum and Matthew Saad Muhammad; Anthony wrote in the mid-1980s entertainment news.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
She became the first African-American reporter to work on the gossip column of the ''New York Post'',{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} as well as the first African-American to pen a column in The National Examiner.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} An expert on everyone from Michael Jackson and O. J. Simpson to Whitney Houston and Donald Trump, Anthony was a contributor on news magazine shows like Inside Edition, The Insider and Entertainment Tonight.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
In the 1990s, Anthony became a gossip girl on ''The Ricki Lake Show'', The ''Rolonda Watts Show'', ''The Joan Rivers Show'', ''The Geraldo Show'', ''The Sally Jessy Raphael Show'', ''The Tempestt Bledsoe Show'', ''The Gordon Elliott Show'', ''Forgive or Forget'', ''The Leeza Gibbons Show'', ''The Danny Bonaduce Show'', ''The Bertice Berry Show'', ''The Mark Walberg Show'', ''The Vicki Lawrence Show'', and ''The Maury Povich Show''. She was also a guest on Court TV, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, CNN and HLN; and ''The Dini Petty Show'' and ''The Camilla Scott Show''.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
For six seasons, Anthony was a contributor and in time co-host of E! Entertainment's ''The Gossip Show'', a roundtable entertainment news show of gossip columnists. She also appeared on ''E! True Hollywood Story'' episodes on celebrities like La Toya Jackson, Robin Givens, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown and countless others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1798965/|title=Flo Anthony|website=IMDb|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref>
Anthony continues to be a fixture in multimedia. With her own company, Dottie Media Group LLC, Anthony has two syndicated radio shows, ''Gossip To Go With Flo'' and ''Flo Anthony's Big Apple Buzz'', that are distributed in partnership with Superadio. The shows are heard by over 3 million listeners daily in upwards of 20 radio markets nationwide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://superadio.com/gossip-on-the-go-with-flo/|title=Gossip on the Go with Flo|date=May 15, 2017|website=Superadio|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20|archive-date=August 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828133901/http://superadio.com/gossip-on-the-go-with-flo/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
As a writer, Anthony is a regular contributor to the ''New York Daily News'', providing entertainment news stories for its popular Confidential column. The famed Hollywood insider also has a weekly syndicated column of her own that appears in ''The New York Amsterdam News'', ''Philadelphia Sunday Sun'', ''BRE Magazine'', ''Columbus Times'' and ''Oklahoma Eagle''. Anthony also heads up Steven Hoffenberg's PostPublishing.buzz website and is a contributing writer for ''Resident''magazine. She is also the former publisher/editor-in-chief of ''Black Noir'' magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of ''Black Elegance'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comclean.us/AboutUs/Flo.aspx|title=Come Clean Entertainment|website=www.comclean.us|access-date=2019-11-20|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515112221/http://www.comclean.us/AboutUs/Flo.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> thumb|Michael Spinks & Flo Anthony at the National Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles. On TV, she is regularly featured as a guest contributor on TV One (U.S. TV network)'s documentary series ''Unsung'' and ''Unsung: Hollywood.'' She also appeared for numerous seasons on TV One's now defunct series ''Life After''. Anthony can also be seen talking breaking news and celebrity culture on multiple cable news shows and local shows like ''Good Day New York''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/jackson-i-made-a-terrible-mistake|title=Jackson: 'I Made a Terrible Mistake'|date=March 25, 2015|website=Fox News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref>
As an author, Anthony made her debut in 2000 with her first novel, ''Keeping Secrets Telling Lies'' Her second tome came 13 years later in 2013, when she inked a book deal with Zane (author)'s Strebor Books to release ''Deadly Stuff Players.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Flo-Anthony/410156921|title=Flo Anthony|website=Simon & Schuster|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> The sequel to that novel, ''One Last Deadly Pay'' was released in 2016 through W. Clark Distribution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wclarkpublishing.com/wcp-authors|title=W. Clark Publishing Authors {{!}} W. Clark Publishing|website=www.wclarkpublishing.com|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> Anthony regularly appears at book festivals and expos signing copies of her books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Flo+Anthony|website=aalbc.com|access-date=2019-11-20|title=Flo Anthony – Syndicated Celebrity Radio Host, Columnist ★ }}</ref>
She also handles personal appearances and publicity for boxing great Michael Spinks.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
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==External links== *http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Flo-Anthony *http://superadio.com/gossip-on-the-go-with-flo/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828133901/http://superadio.com/gossip-on-the-go-with-flo/ |date=August 28, 2019 }} *http://amsterdamnews.com/staff/florence-anthony/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429085510/http://amsterdamnews.com/staff/florence-anthony/ |date=April 29, 2017 }} *https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Flo+Anthony *http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/jenice_armstrong/20140310_On_the_go_with_Flo_Anthony.html *https://www.newswire.com/press-release/steven-hoffenbergs-ny-post-publishing-inc-is-now-postpublishing
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