The List: 10 things celebrity gossip guru Lainey Lui can’t live without
1 | My e-cigarette
It’s almost like a hookah pipe, with liquid nicotine that you inhale. It still gives you the throat hit. I use it everywhere: in bed, watching TV, in the car. I panic if I don’t have it.
2 | My daily papaya
My mother said I should eat a papaya every day to ward off bad luck, and I do everything she tells me to do. She wasn’t very forthcoming with the reasons, but now no day is complete without one.
3 | My Sweet Valley High books
When I was in grade school, the book publisher Scholastic would come around with order forms. My dad worked two jobs then and didn’t have a lot of money, but he always let me buy books. One of my early must-reads was Sweet Valley High. It started my lifelong love of reading.
4 | My rooster charm
My wallet was stolen a few years ago in Cannes. It was the worst day of my life. When I got back and bought a new wallet, I attached this charm to the zipper. It’s meant to protect against crime. I pity the next person who tries to steal my wallet.
5 | My Nexus card
It’s the best invention ever. I was on something like 80 flights last year, most of them to the States. Now I can get to the airport 45 minutes before takeoff and breeze through security.
6 | My husband’s student card
We’ve lived together for 13 years and I recently found his student card from Grade 10. He looks like such a dork. I love it! I keep it in my wallet.
7 | My monogrammed pyjamas
I have eight pairs: four for winter, four for summer. They’re used on a one-week rotation. All of them are from J.Crew and monogrammed with my initials on the breast pocket. If I’m not in pyjamas in bed, I don’t feel like me.
8 | My ear scratcher
It’s a stem the length of a Q-tip, but thinner and with a tiny scoop on one end. I think it’s an Asian thing. There’s nothing as satisfying as scratching an ear itch with one of these.
9 | My Harry Potter wand
I was sent on assignment for eTalk to the grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Florida. I’m a Harry Potter freak so it was a big deal for me. They gave us these special wands with tips that lit up at the ceremony. To me it’s a symbol of all the amazing things I’ve been able to do in my job: go to the Super Bowl, the royal wedding, stuff like that.
10 | My Rolex
My dad gave it to me for my 30th birthday, so when I have it on, I think of him.
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this was more sentimental and a little bit odder than most. which made it infinitely more interesting than the brunt of these 10 lists…
Sweet Valley High. Just one more reason to adore Lainey.
Lainey is so bitchin’ and this awesome list is so her – love her.
I’ll never get that two minutes of my life back.
hell yes, this list is essential reading! Also, The Social is an amazing program full of useful info that everyone should watch every day.
… said no one ever.
If the day your wallet got stolen in Cannes was actually the worst day of your life, you are one sheltered, lucky mothafrucka!
It used to be that those who couldn’t do, taught. Now, and for the past decade, at least, those who can’t do, become gossip bloggers and get TV hosting gigs that can’t disguise the reality that people like Lainey and every single “new media personality” borne of being a professional leech on the teat of mostly-American celebrity (itself an only slightly less dubious construct) contribute absolutely nothing of worth to society. Thus it’s all the sadder that her List is comparatively more down-to-earth when set against the excruciatingly twee inanity of the Rosedale twats who regularly populate this feature.
I wonder if the bags she uses at the airport are the same as the ones that are under her eyes. They seem to be the same size.