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
The Ricki Lake Show five new talk shows to premiere during the 2012–2013 television season, "Ricki Lake" ranked fourth, behind "Katie", "Steve Harvey", and "The Jeff Probst Show", but ahead of "The Trisha Goddard Show". "Katie", "Probst", and "Trisha" have since been cancelled, leaving "Harvey" as the only one to successfully do well in the ratings. During the week of November 5, 2012, "Ricki Lake" averaged 924,000 viewers. Global picked up the program for Canada, which debuted the program on September 10, 2012, the same date as the US airing. The series has also been acquired by FX (UK) who will air the show