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13 Facts About Elaine Lui

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Elaine "Lainey" Lui is a Canadian television personality and reporter.

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Elaine Lui has a website called LaineyGossip, is an anchor on CTV's etalk, and was a co-host on CTV's daily talk series The Social.

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When Lui was 6, her parents divorced and her mother returned to Hong Kong.

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Elaine Lui spent many summers in Hong Kong to visit her mother.

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Elaine Lui attended middle school and high school at the Toronto French School and graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute.

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Elaine Lui had been 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.

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Elaine Lui then took a job with Covenant House, which offers shelter and services for the homeless.

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Elaine Lui left Covenant House in 2006 to commit herself full-time to her blog.

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Since joining etalk, Elaine Lui has covered the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the JUNO Awards, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the MuchMusic Video Awards.

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Elaine Lui participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where she advocated for Raziel Reid's novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies.

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Elaine Lui married Jacek Szenowicz when she was 28 years old.

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Elaine Lui has stated that she and her husband do not wish to have children.

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However, unlike Mulroney, Elaine Lui faced no disciplinary action and retained all of her jobs.