Laura Csortan well known for her current roles on two national ratings TV shows - as travel presenter on The Great Outdoors and former co-host on Australia’s longest running and internationally successful game show Wheel of Fortune.

Born and raised in Adelaide, Laura displayed a genuine love of ‘the great outdoors’ from an early age with skills ranging from solo sky-diving, rock climbing, cross country snow-skiing, advanced scuba diving, competitive swimming, white water kayaking, horse-riding and water-skiing (making it to the level of SA State Champion).

A former model and fitness instructor, Laura has had previous television experience before joining Channel 7 as a travel reporter for The Great Outdoors in 2000.

She hosted Beyond Production’s World’s Best Beaches for the USA Travel Channel and a travel show on Australia for Italian television and co-presented several Adelaide based specials for Channel Seven.

As a model, Laura featured in the Australian Fashion Awards, on The Battle of The Sexes on the Ten Network and graced the covers of numerous national sports magazines.

Laura is more famously known as a former Miss Universe Australia (1997) and Miss World Australia (1998)- the first model to represent Australia in both the two major international pageants. She was crowned Miss Congeniality at the 1997 Miss Universe Pageant.

Last year saw Laura host the BBC series Massive Nature, a six part series on Channel 7.  

“The past five years have been amazing,” she says. “I have been jumping out of planes at 16,000 feet, mountain bike riding in Scotland, white water-rafting in the US and even clay pigeon shooting!  It’s a privilege to see the world and also share my journeys with viewers along the way. 

Her extensive television experience has now led to Laura becoming a key not speaker at tourism and lifestyle seminars and MC’ing events when she is not travelling.

In her down time Laura loves to ride her new Ducatti and loves hanging out with her mate- border collie Abbey.