Elaine "Lainey" Lui (Chinese: 雷若芬, born September 26, 1973) is a Canadian television personality and reporter.

She 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.

The Social premiered on September 2, 2013, with Lui as co-host alongside Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst and Traci Melchor.

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

[5] Lainey made her acting debut on Murdoch Mysteries, season 18, episode 12, as Gail, a gossip columnist, who attended the grand opening of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Lui hosts the Smut Soiree, an annual event at which she talks about the latest gossip in pop culture and Hollywood.

[8][9] These included comments described as body-shaming, slut-shaming, homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, misogynistic and ageist.