Flo Anthony

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Florence Anthony was a graduate of Howard University.^{[citation needed]}

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]}

She became the first African-American reporter to work on the gossip column of the New York Post,^{[citation needed]} as well as the first African-American to pen a column in The National Examiner.^{[citation needed]} 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]}

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]} She also worked in radio on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show with her segment "Gossip to go with Flo" as well as the "Skip Murphy & the morning show" in Dallas Texas.

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.^[2]

With her company, Dottie Media Group LLC, Anthony had 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.^[3]

As a writer, Anthony was a regular contributor to the New York Daily News, providing entertainment news stories for its popular Confidential column. She also had 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 headed up Steven Hoffenberg's PostPublishing.buzz website and is a contributing writer for Residentmagazine. She was the former publisher/editor-in-chief of Black Noir magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of Black Elegance magazine.^[4]

On TV, she was 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 could also be seen talking breaking news and celebrity culture on multiple cable news shows and local shows like Good Day New York.^[5]

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.^[6] The sequel to that novel, One Last Deadly Pay was released in 2016 through W. Clark Distribution.^[7] Anthony regularly appeared at book festivals and expos signing copies of her books.^[8]

She also handled personal appearances and publicity for boxing great Michael Spinks.^{[citation needed]}

Flo Anthony was married to boxer Michael Spinks in January 2026^[9] and they resided in the East Harlem section of New York City.^[6]

She died on August 6, 2026.^[9]