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Loni Love Wins Big For Project Angel Food On Celebrity Family Feud

29/06/2021 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online, Media, TV Appearances

CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD (ABC/Eric McCandless)
LONI LOVE, ROSS MATHEWS, STEVE HARVEY

Loni Love is a winner!

Team Loni Love swept Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey, primetime on ABC, Sunday, June 28th to win $25,000 for Project Angel Food. Whoo-hoo!

The Emmy Award-winning host, comedian, author and Project Angel Food volunteer led “Team Loni Love” which included her “boo” James Welsh, his son Brian Welsh, her friend of three decades Rosa Brice, and Rosa’s fiancé Ken Browne to victory against “Team Ross Mathews.” Ross was adorable with his fiancé Dr. Wellinthon Garcia, his brother Eric Mathews, besties C Jay Jordan and Taya Farber. But “survey says” cute doesn’t win Celebrity Family Feud, Loni Love does.

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Loni Love Hilariously Coaches Boyfriend’s TikTok Moves on Celebrity Game Face (Exclusive)

10/09/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online, Media, TV Appearances

Loni Love looks like she can get her boyfriend James Welsh to do just about anything.

During an exclusive clip for the latest “Celebrity Game Face,” the comedian competes on the game show by watching clips of TikTok dances while attempting to coach her beau into imitating them. The catch? James can’t see what Loni is witnessing.

As soon as host Kevin Hart gives the count down, Loni begins describing the first viral boogie being performed by a young TikTok user.

“Um, fly like an eagle,” she tells James, as he begins to flap his arms. “Fly like a ballerina! Fly! Fly free, you’re free!”

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New York Times: These Celebrities Can Change Your Life

03/08/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online

Loni Love, the comedian, actor and co-host of the TV chat show “The Real,” has a gift: She can preach without being preachy. In I TRIED TO CHANGE SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO: True Life Lessons (Hachette Go, 241 pp., $28), Love tells her story about growing up in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass projects at the height of the crack epidemic. Her formative years were every bit as harrowing as 50 Cent’s, with hunger a constant theme and ketchup sandwiches a staple. When Love was tapped to be a dealer’s girlfriend — an honor among her friends — she demurred. The French-horn-playing, math-loving teenager had other ideas. She made her money delivering groceries, then got a job on the G.M. line glue-gunning car carpet (all the while secretly living in her car — her mother had thrown her out to make room for her new boyfriend). With help from an exec who saw her reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” — who had himself made it out of the projects — she turned in her glue gun and went to college. In a few years she was working as an engineer at Xerox by day, and trying out her comedy chops on the Chitlin Circuit (the Black L.A. comedy clubs) at night. At various points in her life she tried to make herself what she was not: skinny, corporate, a “Black Stepford wife.” Fortunately, none of it worked.

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The Real’s Loni Love Gets Candid About Her Path to Success: ‘This Is My American Story’

03/08/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online, Media

You may recognize Loni Love as an Emmy-winning co-host of The Real, a daytime talk program led by women of color. Perhaps you’re a fan of her comedy work, or recall her acting roles in kids show Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide or the star-studded film Mother’s Day. Maybe you listen to her on the nationally syndicated radio show Café Mocha, or were charmed by her turn on RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race. But do you know how she found fame, going from a little girl in the projects to a successful engineer and, finally, a star?

“A lot of people only know me from certain areas in my life, and a lot of people don’t know how hard it was to get where I am,” Love, 48, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue, on stands Friday. “I didn’t know anybody in this industry. I wasn’t born with money or well-off parents. I want to show that this is a country where you can have humble beginnings and you can make it. This is my American story.”

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Loni Love’s Latest Memoir Will Help You Accept Your Flaws

03/08/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online, Media

On June 18, Loni Love delivered a refreshingly honest commencement address via Zoom to her high school alma mater in Detroit, MI. In true Loni Love fashion, the actress laid out a blueprint for how to accept, embrace, and live life to the fullest—all the while cracking jokes and humble bragging about her run-in with Beyoncé. It’s no wonder the Emmy- and two-time NAACP Image Award–winning co-host of The Real was designated the class of 2020’s “part-time Auntie.”

That sensibility—wise but relatable—can be found in Love’s latest book, I Tried To Change So You Don’t Have To. In the collection of comedic essays, she writes about resisting the pressures of conformity, loving yourself for who you are, and how embracing your God-given flaws are the keys to unlocking your true potential. While her first book was focused on no-nonsense relationship advice, this time the author applies that delivery to every aspect of life.

Ahead of the release of Love’s second book, out today, Marie Claire chatted with the comedian and co-host of the number-one nationally syndicated GRACIE Award-winning radio show Café Mocha about the embarrassing mistakes, uphill battles, outlandish characters, and unexpected breakthroughs that fill its uproarious pages.

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Loni Love On Dating In Her Late 40s: It’s Never Too Late To Find Love

03/08/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Loni Online, TV Appearances, Videos

“His name is James. We met online. He’s a wonderful man,” “The Real” co-host Loni Love, 48, tells Rach and co-host Nate Berkus. “We just really, really get along. To be an older woman and to find love — that’s what I talk about in my book [I Tried To Change So You Don’t Have To], that it’s never too late to find love.”

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Quarantine Diary: Loni Love misses Tamera’s hugs on ‘The Real,’ drives beau crazy with flute

25/06/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: lonilove | In: Loni In the News, Videos

Still in quarantine? You’re not alone. Celebrities are cooped up in their homes across the country just like many of us. As we collectively navigate this uncharted territory, USA TODAY presents Quarantine Diaries, which give readers a peek into how our favorite stars are spending their time at home.

Today’s diarist is “The Real” co-host and comedian Loni Love, who’s at home in Los Angeles with boyfriend James Welsh. Love and Welsh started dating in March 2020, as luck would have it, right before shutdowns across the country.

Although spending unlimited time holed up together during quarantine has proved to be a challenge for some couples, Love says it’s been smooth sailing, aside from the fact that “he farts a lot.”

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