Elaine Lui
| Elaine Lui | |
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Lui in 2009
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| Born |
September 26, 1973 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario |
| Occupation | Television personality, reporter |
| Spouse(s) | Jacek Szenowicz (m. 2001) |
Elaine "Lainey" Lui (Chinese: 雷若芬, born September 26, 1973) is a Canadian television personality, reporter, and infotainer. She is a self-proclaimed gossip maven. She pens a website, laineygossip.com, is a reporter for CTV's etalk, and is also a co-host on CTV's daily talk series The Social.
Lui was born and raised in Toronto. Her parents, Judy and Bernard, immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1970. They worked odd jobs, including washing dishes and cleaning hotel rooms. Eventually, her father found stable work as an accountant. When Lui was 6, her parents divorced and her mother returned to Hong Kong. Lui spent many summers in Hong Kong to visit her mother. Her parents reunited when she was 16.
Lui attended middle school and high school at the Toronto French School and graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute. In 1996, she graduated with a B.A. in French and history from the University of Western Ontario.
After graduating from Western, she worked for Rogers Communications and trained employees to install Internet connections.
Lui worked in not-for-profit fundraising. She was living in Vancouver and working for the University of British Columbia when she returned to Toronto to care for her mother, who needed a kidney transplant. She then took a job with Covenant House, which offers shelter and services for the homeless. The roots of LaineyGossip.com are in an email that Lui sent to two friends to keep them up to date on celebrity gossip. That subscriber list quickly grew and she started her blog. She left Covenant House in 2006 to commit herself full-time to her blog.
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