Portrait of Elaine "Lainey" Lui, co-host of CTV's The Social
Shots from TV Screen of February 8, 2018 episode
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There are 12 signs on the Chinese calendar, and every sign has an opposition. I was born in the Year of the Ox. The mortal enemy of the Ox is the Sheep or the Goat (for superstition purposes, they’re basically the same). I guess the Chinese elders who came up with this business had to create drama between certain farm animals with four legs. Anyway, we are currently halfway through the Year of the Sheep/ Goat. Which means that it’s been six months of sh-t for the Ox. That’s me. And now my mother and my dog have cancer. Is this what religion feels like? Clinging to an intangible belief to manage the unpredictable? Or am I making it all about me?
From
Elaine "Lainey" Lui
Chinese-Canadian
Professional Gossip
Canadian Television Personality
CTV (Canadian Television) Co-Host of The Social
Memoirist:
Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's A Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)
(April 1, 2014)
Blogging Enterprise:
Lainey Gossip
Celebrity Reporter on CTV's etalkn
Former employee at Covenant House, Vancouver: Shelter for "homeless youth"
Marital Status: Married, although debatable (No links to spouse at all on any web search)
Spouse(?): Jacek Szenowicz (m. 2001), white, Polish-Canadian(?)
Business Manager: Jacek Szenowicz(?)
Children: None ("
By Choice")
Age: 44 years
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Elaine Lui is a co-host on CTV's
The Social, which appears to model itself on the American show
The View.
There is ample information on her here, here, and here.
But I will provide my (brief) observations.
There is no doubt that Lui made it this far in the television media through hard work and some ingenuity. But is that enough, and is she really that good?
Her shtick is "gossip," which she promotes through her website and enterprise:
Lainey Gossip.
For all its exuberant title, the website is really an unimaginative version of
Entertainment News or
People Magazine. Lainey ain't no Cindy Adams.
Here is
a sample of a recent article by Ms. Adams:
Husbands, headlines, kids and awards ago, Angelina Jolie was Miss “Tomb Raider.” No more. In its new incarnation, that Lara Croft role is Alicia Vikander.
And
another:
Gripe desk
I have been inundated with letters. One female decrying outfits on award shows. Another upset about language now used as everyday speak.
A former “Girl Scout leader” calls the “see-through wardrobe a disgraceful show of body parts that should not be exposed.”
Another’s appalled by “the disgraceful display of the F-word numerous times a famous actor used in describing our president.” The handwriting adds: “In some countries, that person would be imprisoned.”
Statistics show that 10 percent of men over 80 use Viagra for sex twice a week. One problem — they can’t remember with whom.
And
here is Lui's postmodern foul mouthed vocabulary.
There are so many articles that I’ve banked about Black Panther [the new move that's out] that I can’t wait to read until I see it.
[...]
For now then…let’s enjoy the photos. And the style porn. The Black Panther European premiere was last night in London. Can we start with Danai Gurira? Because this dress, holy sh-t motherf-cker (Quincy Jones’s favourite word). It’s Jean Louis Sabaji. And it’s a design that feels like it’s taking place in real time. Doesn’t it look like those feathers are spreading across her body right now? As you’re looking at it? Kind of like the way Mystique’s body transforms in X-Men?
Cindy Adams will be turning in her grave.
Leave asde Lui's demons (and she does have a handful), I wonder what is the societal reason that makes her present herself like this?
It is my ongoing theory that non-Whites are always, and always will be, uncomfortable in their own skin in a Western country.
They cannot (or will not) follow the predominant historical white culture partly because it is their profound belief that it is a RACIST culture.
And partly (here is the zinger) they will never feel that they quite add up.
And they cannot ignore or abandon it because without it, well, they have nothing.
Try going to China to start a gossip website! Who cares about Chinese movie stars, even the Chinese themselves? It will always be about Hollywood, and White Hollywood, even with the Black, Asian and Hispanic stars that appear in the movies and the runways.
I think it is this love/hate split with her own culture, race and country, that produces the demonic outrages that Lui blurts out even with non-controversial, or simply "fun," topics.
Lui, of course, like most children of immigrant Asians, is married to a White man, who at one point was some kind of manager for her gossip enterprise. But he has been out of the radar for the past few weeks. He is not on her recent Facebook/Twitter page posts, nor in her updated Instagram photos. He used to have his own website, but that has also been removed, and cannot be found through search engines.
Trouble in the henhouse?
My theory is that Lui, who had spoken vociferously about not wanting children, and has
written about it also, no longer has her husband on her side. She is forty four years old and with diminishing chances of having children from now on, even if she changes her mind.
Meanwhile, her husband, like all red-blooded males, will certainly want his own children. And he will have to start finding ways to make that become a reality before
he becomes (way) too old.
And who wants to stick around with a ranter that hates whites (i.e.: him?) and kids?
The collage above is what I put together from shots directly from tv of the
The Social last February 8. It is a discussion about lottery money and big prize winners who want to keep their anonymity. Her flap is that since their multi-million dollar wins are from money ticket purchases by the public, they lose this anonymity and become part of the news (gossip) for this public. Fair enough, although I disagree (Lui would lose her slinging sources otherwise - that hick from Alabama who bought ten year's worth of of Chitos who could figure in an "I Hate Whitey" column could bring her much needed revenue).
Watch her here at the ....... point (and probably to f you're up to t).
Watch how she sneaks in the word: entitlement...
The really strange thing that her co-hosts look to her as some kind of (buddhist) sage. True enough she sits benignly, and almost motionless, through their attempts at telling us how the world works, and as the final word of wisdom, they all turn to her.
And they get this.
But why do these women follow her lead? Well all are some non-White amalgam.
-
Cynthia Loyst presents herself as
half German/ half Italian. But she looks Middle Eastern and possibly Greek to me. I read a long time ago that she followed Greek traditions. Many "Germans" have Greek or Turkish identity from the workforce that Germans allowed through the years from these regions, German citizenship doesn't mean German blood.
Loyst is also somewhat known for her "Sex" columns, and now her
"Sex" enterprise. But she ain't no Dr. Ruth and is in fact somewhat lewd perhaps to promote her business.
She is
lives with her "partner," and they have with one child. Her "partner" is part Hungarian, part Malaysian. Their son looks Asian, and has a Malaysian name, Jaya.
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Melissa Grelo is half Filipino, half Portuguese. She is married to an Italian man, but he looks somewhat Middle Eastern to me. Grelo dyes her black hair variations of light brown. And cakes her eyes with makeup, including long fake eyelashes. With her black hair and subdued makeup, she looks Asian and not the Mediterranean image she promotes.
Catholic http://thismomloves.ca/2014/07/melissa-grelo-behind-scenes-at-socia.html
- Marcia Ien is perhaps the most authentic of these four. But Blacks are always allowed to be authentic, and even looked up to for that. Still,
Ien promotes her "Caribbean" background even though she has spent her life in Canada, of course as an antidote to the "white" society she is "forced" to live in.
Ien is married with two children.
Prior to this marriage she was engaged to a Black rapper
Maestro Fresh-Wes, and has a tattoo on her foot to show for those days.
Here's a (one line) sample of Maestro Fresh-Wes' rap:
I burn my green, I put suckers on the guillotine
I'm not sure how much leopards can change their spots, but Ien seems to have "moved on" from all of that.
None of these women Grelo and en who clearly have Christian heritages seem to accept unconditionally the Lui's ("by choice") childlessness, and Loyst's unchristian cohabitation.
And then there s .....
She is the only "blue blood" white of the group.
And she is the resident joker.
