Petra Bagust is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 television presenter, well known as host of New Zealand program What's Really in Our...? and previously What's Really in Our Food?, which first aired on TV3

TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

 in June 2008.

Bagust is currently co-presenting TVNZ's Breakfast.

Career

Bagust grew up in Christchurch and attended University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...

, where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995. She joined local TV station Cry TV

Cry TV

Cry TV was a regional music television station broadcast in Christchurch, New Zealand between 1993 and 1997.It broadcast from a shed on the Port Hills, below the Sugarloaf Transmitter....

, beginning her television career. She later co-hosted popular series Ice TV and later Ice As. In 2008 she hosted New Zealand program What's Really In Our Food? for which she has been nominated for both the 2009 and 2010 Qantas

Qantas

Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...

 Best Presenter Award.

Since 2001, Bagust has been one of the hosts of the annual Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park event, broadcast on TV3.

Bagust began as a presenter of TVNZ's Breakfast in 2011, alongside Corin Dann.