[3][4] McLaughlin started her media career with Radio 2 in 2005 before moving to Sky News in Sydney, as a reporter and presenter.

She also hosted Ten's coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 Commonwealth Games and Australian F1 Grand Prix.

[6][7][1] In January 2016, cricketer Chris Gayle propositioned McLaughlin during a live interview during a Big Bash game.

[13] In 2018, she was appointed host of Seven's Test Cricket and Big Bash League Coverage alongside James Brayshaw.

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