Elaine "Lainey" Lui (born 26 September 1973 [1] ) is a self-proclaimed gossip maven. She pens a website, laineygossip.com, and is a reporter for CTV's etalk.
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Lui was born and raised in Toronto. She attended Toronto French School as a child and completed her secondary education at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute. Post-secondary, she attended the University of Western Ontario where she majored in French and History.
Lui’s career began in not-for-profit fundraising. She was living in Vancouver and working for Covenant House when she returned to Toronto to be with her mother, who was ill. 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
etalk, CTV's Canadian entertainment newsmagazine, hired Lui in 2006 as a celebrity gossip source.[2]
Since joining etalk in 2006, Lui has covered the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the JUNO Awards, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs).
Lui currently resides in Vancouver, BC with her husband Jacek and her two beagles. Lui is also a consultant for Covenant House, which offers shelter and services for the homeless.