Melanie Louise McLaughlin (born September 1979) is an Australian sport presenter for the

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. McLaughlin previously worked for

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where she hosted

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

shows including ''Kick Off'',

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and ''

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'', while also being a regular on Fox Sports News.Fox Sports kicks off A-League
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Career

McLaughlin started her television career with

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in Sydney, as a reporter and presenter. In 2007, she joined

where she hosted multiple

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shows including ''Kick Off'', ''

'' and ''

''. She was a regular on Fox Sports News. In 2013, she joined

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to host the network's coverage of the

Big Bash League The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash Le ...

. She also hosted Ten's coverage of the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

and Australian F1 Grand Prix. McLaughlin was also host of the short-lived The Thursday Night Sport Show alongside

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and Mark Howard, and a fill-in sports presenter on '' Ten Eyewitness News Sydney''. In January 2016, cricketer

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propositioned McLaughlin during a live interview during a Big Bash game. He was sanctioned with a 10,000 fine for inappropriate conduct. In April 2016, McLaughlin moved to the

. She was appointed weeknight sport presenter on '' Seven News Sydney'' replacing Jim Wilson. She hosted Seven's coverage of the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

and the

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, as well as the network's coverage of the

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and

2017 Rugby League World Cup The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was the fifteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup tournament and took place in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea between 27 October and 2 December 2017. The tournament featured the national teams ...

. She has also filled in as sports presenter on ''

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'' and on '' Seven Morning News''. In 2018, she was appointed host of Seven’s Test Cricket and Big Bash League Coverage alongside

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Personal life

McLaughlin was born in September 1979 in Sydney to an Anglo-Indian mother and an English father who had migrated to Australia in 1978. She was raised in

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where she attended St Andrew's Primary School and

St John Paul II Catholic College The St John Paul II Catholic College is a dual schoolcampus independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, with campuses located in Nirimba Fields and Schofields, in the City of Blacktown in the western suburbs of Sydney, Ne ...

. McLaughlin was married to Australian actor Luke Panic from 2012 to 2014. She is currently in a relationship with British former footballer Ashley Westwood. McLaughlin is an ambassador for the Lung Foundation Australia, having lost a sister to lung cancer.

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