Ricki Lake weekdays. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Lake was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, to a secular Jewish family. Her parents are Jill (a homemaker) and Barry Lake (a pharmacist), but was largely brought up by her paternal grandmother, Sylvia Lake, until Sylvia's death in 1978. Lake attended Ithaca College for one year. Lake made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waters's 1988 cult-classic "Hairspray". Lake also starred in other Waters films including "Cry-Baby" (with Johnny Depp and
Charm School with Ricki Lake decides to expel Natasha because she felt she didn't need "Charm School" as much the other two do and Bubbles is beginning to speak up for herself. Natasha says she was never there for the money, she was there to change and fears she's going to go back to her old ways because she wasn't in "Charm School" long enough. Reasons for Expulsion: "First aired June 15, 2009" The girls have to build playgrounds for children. No one finishes,so they are all up for elimination. At dinner with Ricki Lake, Ricki plays a game with the girls. She asks each