Career
She hosted a Sunday night radio show on GLR from 1990 for several years, and was one of the launch DJs on British Broadcasting Corporation 6 Music. MacLeod worked as a researcher at the British Broadcasting Corporation before making her on-screen debut in 1987 on Channel 4’s youth show Network 7. Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes.
She appeared as a guest interviewer in Sean Hughes" 1992 comedy series Sean"s Show.
She was a team captain on the Radio 4 music quiz All the Way from Memphis, with Andrew Collins, and a regular contestant on the Radio 4 books quiz, The Write Stuff. She has been the restaurant critic of The Independent since 1997, winning the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for "Restaurant Writer of the Year" in 2003, and being awarded "Restaurant Writer of the Year" by the Guild of Food Writers in 2008 and 2010.
She has also been literary editor of Marie Claire, and radio critic of the Mail on Sunday. She is a director of the talent agency KBJ Management, where she manages television presenters including Simon Amstell and Kevin McCloud.
She attended Ipswich High School.
MacLeod has appeared on many aspects of entertainment such as radio, television and newspapers.