Andy Walker
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- This page refers to the Canadian TV presenter and journalist. For the Scottish footballer and broadcaster, see Andy Walker (footballer).
Andy Walker (born July 4, 1967 in Norwich, England) is a Canadian television personality and journalist.
He is best known as having been a co-host alongside Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur of Call for Help, a technology help television program on G4techTV Canada in Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. His most popular segments on the show were what he called "food demos" which use household groceries like cheese and whip cream to show how complex technology mechanisms work. In one show he built a transistor out of cheddar cheese and tomato juice.
Walker is also the owner of CyberWalker.com[1], a technology advice website, and the author of The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware and Viruses from Que Books.
Walker is also in the process of writing Windows Vista Help Desk, which will be released in mid-2007.
Walker immigrated to Canada at the age of eight and was raised in Beaconsfield, Quebec. He studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto.
On August 31, 2005, after hosting Call for Help with Leo Laporte for over a year, Walker announced that he was leaving the show due to an unsatisfactory pay cut in his proposed contract renewal.
Walker hosted two spin-offs to Call For Help called Web Gems and My Media. Web Gems focused on tips and tricks on navigating the Internet. My Media was focused on TV and living room technology. Both shows aired on G4techTV Canada until late 2006. Walker also currently co-hosts an internet technology podcast called Lab Rats with Sean Carruthers. He appears as one of the first guests on Leo Laporte's new television show The Lab with Leo Laporte, which started production in Vancouver, Canada in April 2007 and airs in May 2007 on G4techTV Canada in Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia.
