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Introduction
Lainey Lui is a Canadian television personality and reporter. Lui owns a blog, LaineyGossip, and is also an anchor on CTV’s etalk. She is also a co-host on CTV’s daily talk series The Social.
Early life
| Name | Lainey Lui |
| Net Worth | $2 million |
| Occupation | TV personality, Reporter |
| Age | 48 years |
| Height | 1.65m |
Elaine “Lainey” Lui was born on September 26, 1973 (age 48 years) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Judy Lui and Bernard Lui. Her parents 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. Laine 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.
Career
Lainey Lui worked for Rogers Communications after graduating from Western and trained employees to install Internet connections. Lui worked in not-for-profit fundraising.
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. She then took a job with Covenant House, which offers shelter and services for the homeless.
LaineyGossip.com grew out of an email that Lui sent to two friends to keep them up to date on celebrity gossip. The subscriber list quickly grew and she started her blog. She left Covenant House in 2006 to commit herself full-time to her blog.
Lainey Lui was employed in 2006 by etalk, CTV’s Canadian entertainment news magazine. Since joining media giant etalk, she 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). The Social premiered on September 2, 2013, with Lui as co-host alongside Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst and Traci Melchor. The show airs daily at 1 p.m. on CTV.
Lui participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where she advocated for Raziel Reid’s novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies. Lui hosts the Smut Soiree, an annual event at which she talks about the latest gossip in pop culture and Hollywood. The event was first held in 2005.
Controversies
Lainey Lui made a comment which resurfaced in June 2020 on her website, causing scandal, after Lui accused Jessica Mulroney of using her white privilege against lifestyle blogger Sasha Exeter, the niece of Lui’s co-star at the time on The Social, Marci Ien. These included comments described as body-shaming, slut-shaming, homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist and ageist. These comments sparked outrage and were widely discussed on social media. However, unlike Mulroney, Lui faced no disciplinary action and retained all of her jobs.
Lui was quoted in April 2021 as saying, “For me, part of restorative justice is making contrition an ongoing process. I don’t ever plan to get to a point where I say, ‘I don’t want to talk about this anymore.’ I’ll talk about it as much as anyone wants me to talk about it. I don’t think an apology is a one-and-done things. I’m trying to be much more aware of not benefitting but also taking responsibility — but not being praised for taking responsibility. It’s a very uncomfortable place to be.”
Husband
Lainey Lui is married to Jacek Szenowicz, they had their wedding in 2001. Lui wedded her husband when she was 28 years old. The couple now resides in Toronto with their dogs Barney and Elvis. Jacek helps to run LaineyGossip.com. Lui has stated that she and her husband do not wish to have children. Lainey Lui stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits his personality. As of mid-2022, Lui and her husband Jacek are still married without children.
Lainey Lui net worth
What is Lainey Lui’s net worth? Lainey Lui’s net worth is estimated at around $2 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a television personality and reporter. Lainey Lui’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $350,000 dollars annually. She is one of the richest and most influential television personalities in Canada. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips.