Apr 17, 2014
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In April of 2014, Elaine "Lainey" Lui fulfilled a lifelong dream when her first book, Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When a Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter to do? A Memoir (Sort Of) was published (by Random House in Canada and Penguin in the USA).
Here KGNU's Claudia Cragg talks
about the book, a paean to her mother aka 'The Squawking Chicken'
and learns how Lainey co-founded LaineyGossip.com, an
entertainment news and gossip blog and how she also became co-host
of CTV's daytime talk show "The
Social", and a reporter on CTV's "etalk", Canada's
number one rated entertainment news show. She
joined the show in 2006 as a special correspondent and has since
covered the Red Carpet at the Oscars, SuperBowl XLII, Cannes and
Toronto International Film Festivals, and other events
worldwide.
Her website in fact started as an email to small group of friends
and colleagues in 2003 and spread by word of mouth to thousands of
now loyal readers. It launched as a website in December 2004 and
has since grown into an immensely popular entertainment destination
visited by over 1.5 million monthly unique readers. Generating over
18 million monthly page views, it is now a leading international
celebrity gossip source and a must read for well-read, educated
females across North America.