Sophie Lui

Sophie Lui is the host of Global BC’s Saturday & Sunday Morning News, as well as the Weekend Noon News Hour. She’s been a part of the Global family for a number of years – whether in Vancouver, or in Victoria at affiliate CHEK News.

Her favourite part of the job is the opportunity to learn something new everyday. She loves that she has an occupational excuse to call just about anybody to ask just about any question.

Sophie was born and raised in the Lower Mainland and has been a news junkie for as long as she can remember. She attended BCIT and graduated from the Broadcast Radio program. From there, she worked at several news radio stations like CKNW, CKIQ-Kelowna, and CFAX-Victoria - before turning toward television news.

In 1999, she joined CHEK News in Victoria - where she anchored and reported. In 2002, she moved to Global BC in Vancouver - where she hosted The Weekend Morning & Noon News and reported during the week. Two years later, she returned to Victoria to rejoin CH News (now known as CHEK News) and hosted CH News at 5.

In 2006, Sophie and her husband decided to indulge in their passion for travelling. They put everything in storage, grabbed a couple of backpacks, a video camera & laptop, and took off for six months - visiting 14 countries in the UK, Middle East, South Asia and Australia. Along the way, she filed the occasional story for Global and wrote travel columns for The Victoria Times Colonist. She loved the adventure and is reluctant to call it "the trip of a lifetime" because she plans to keep travelling as often as she can.