Take Luvvie Ajayi, the 32-year-old author, speaker and digital strategist.
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" I was on the front page of the Star, a "sobbing luvvie.
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And her blog, Awesomely Luvvie, is rife with her classic wit and candor.
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Ajayi, who runs the popular Awesomely Luvvie blog, was known for her Scandal live tweets.
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Then there's the "West African Voltron" that includes Luvvie Ajayi, Cynthia Erivo, and Bozoma Saint John.
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Twitter guru Luvvie Ajayi live tweeted the show each week, growing her platform in the process.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that ABC tapped Luvvie Ajayi to live tweet Scandal.
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But Luvvie Ajayi did it with her book of social commentary, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.
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Luvvie Ajayi is the author of New York Times best-seller I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.
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" Malcolm John Haines wrote on Facebook, "Another boring piece of 'art' from the left wing's favourite millionaire luvvie.
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Tarana Burke, Luvvie Ajayi, Tamika Mallory, Symone Sanders, and Yolanda Sangweni speak onstage Friday during the 2018 Essence Festival.
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I've known Luvvie for a few years now and it's important that we understand how unbelievably funny she is.
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Glennon Doyle (left) and Luvvie Ajayi attend "Hello Sunshine x Together Live" at Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University on Nov.
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When cultural critic Luvvie Ajayi called Lee "heavy-handed" with the social messages he embeds in his films, I couldn't agree more.
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In her debut book, subtitled "The Do-Better Manual," Luvvie Ajayi calls out the ways we behave badly in the digital age.
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As she tells Krawcheck, it wasn't until other opportunities failed to materialize that she considered moving full steam on her own site, Awesomely Luvvie.
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Yvonne Orji got a new boo and now co-hosts a podcast with Luvvie Ajayi about their background as Nigerian Americans called Jesus & Jollof.
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"I first noticed Luvvie because she was doing 'Scandal' recaps, and that led me to read other pieces of her work," Ms. Rhimes said.
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"It fell into the culture that was already there and blew it up," said Luvvie Ajayi, who became one of the series' most recognized bloggers.
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Rhimes' production company, in partnership with ABC Signature Studios, has acquired the rights to Luvvie Ajayi's best-selling book I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual.
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Author and speaker Luvvie Ajayi also made a list of Black women running for office in 2018; almost all of them are Democrats, and many are progressive.
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Social media star Awesomely Luvvie has one of the best play-by-plays of the epic exchange (including the deleted tweets) we've seen yet, so thank us later.
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This season of the MAKERS Money video series ended with an interview about finances and success between Ellevest cofounder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck, and blogger phenom Luvvie Ajayi.
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It tried to obscure this little problem by taking its usual swipe at "luvvie" city dwellers: it dug up a headmaster who banned playing in the snow, for fear the little darlings would be hurt.
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And just this week, it was announced that the production company was venturing into comedy; it acquired the rights to best-seller I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual, the hilarious essay collection by Luvvie Ajayi.
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But you probably will, because Luvvie Ajayi, a Nigerian-born "professional shade thrower," as she calls herself, is offering incisive, hilarious commentary on polarizing issues (race and gender in particular), and she has found her audience.
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi See Details Since The Bedwetter was released in 2010, before memoirs by comedians were so ubiquitous, some reviews seem confused that this book balances both humor and heart.
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In "How to Keep Your College Admission Offer: Start With Digital Literacy," Luvvie Ajayi writes: A few years ago I started teaching workshops to high school and college students about the importance of maintaining a clean digital reputation.
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Her new book, "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual," debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times best-seller list in October, thanks in part to fans of her blog, Awesomely Luvvie, and her Facebook and Twitter platforms.
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Swipe through her Instagram feed and you'll find her dancing barefoot with Luvvie at last year's White House Christmas party, performing "Tyrone" at a karaoke event in front of Ms. Badu herself, and slaying with her celeb twin Jill Marie Jones on the gram #fortheculture.
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Cameron argued that "the key to accepting a Luvvie is not to take yourself too seriously", and said that if she were presented with a Luvvie she would "welcome it with open arms – otherwise you might look a bit po-faced and silly".
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Luvvie Ajayi (born January 5, 1985) is a Nigerian American author, speaker, and digital strategist. Her first book, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, was a New York Times best-seller..
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Luvvie Ajayi was born in Nigeria; she moved to Chicago with her family when she was nine. She attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying psychology.
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She intimated that she's not prepared to work alongside some pro-Palestinian actors, citing Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes as examples and further described herself as a "Labour luvvie" under the tenure of Tony Blair, as opposed to a "party member".
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Davies described the suggestion as "appalling and discriminatory". Davies suggested that the police could save money by not paying for interpreters for non-English speaking victims of crime. When criticised, Davies responded by calling him a "moron" and a "leftie luvvie".
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Ajayi began her career in marketing and digital strategy, and started blogging in 2003. Her site AwesomelyLuvvie.com amassed a following, particularly for Ajayi's recaps of television shows like Scandal, drawing the attention of Scandal showrunner Shonda Rhimes. In 2016, The New York Times reported that Ajayi had an audience of approximately 500,000 between her personal Twitter feed and the Awesomely Luvvie website.
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Ultimately however only three episodes were released, the rest with the note 'exact release date pending'. Fry's use of the word "luvvie" (spelled "lovie" by Fry), in The Guardian on 2 April 1988, is given by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest recorded use of the word as a humorous synonym for "actor". (requires subscription) Fry was, at one time, slated to adapt A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole for the big screen.
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Mark Grist is a poet and battle rapper based in Peterborough, UK, who rose to prominence when his Don't Flop rap battle against Mancunian MC Blizzard became an internet sensation. The video of the rap battle became the most viewed UK rap battle of all time and Grist is ranked the third most viewed rap battler in UK history. His poem Girls Who Read produced by Roundhouse London and published on their YouTube channel has also gained significant fame on the internet, winning two International Luvvie Awards for 'Best individual performance' and 'Best Viral Video'. Grist starred in Channel 4's 'Mr Drew's School for Boys', Redbull TV's 'Mark Grist battle the World' and his poetry and rap battle videos have gained over 30 million views online.
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The Trip received positive reviews. Andrea Mullaney of The Scotsman said that "on paper, The Trip sounds bloody awful: a cosy, luvvie giant in-joke for Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon", but went on to describe it as "completely brilliant" and "hilarious". Brian Viner of The Independent said: "The Trip never fails to oblige. I love it for its originality and its daring." John Crace of The Guardian described the show as "one of the funniest things on TV." Director Richard Curtis described the series as one of the greatest television programmes of all time at the 2013 British Comedy Awards. It was nominated, in 2011, for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Situation Comedy, and Steve Coogan won the award for Best Male Comedy Performance. It won the Best New Programme award at the 2012 Broadcast Awards in London. In 2018, Rob Brydon was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, but lost out to Toby Jones for Detectorists.
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