Atkinson-Wood has been a regular presenter for the Channel 4 series Collector's Lot and has made guest appearances on programmes such as Call My Bluff.
She was a guest in episode 9 of the C series of QI, when she answered a question deemed almost impossible by host Stephen Fry by correctly naming a chemical reaction equation as an explosion of custard powder, earning 200 points.
Through answering this single question, she held the highest cumulative total of any QI panellist at the time (this is no longer the case - for example, in the K Series episode "Knowledge", Alan Davies scored 689.66 points).
[5][user-generated source] Craig Ferguson wrote in his book American on Purpose that he and Atkinson-Wood were in a romantic relationship that lasted five years.
She left him because of his alcoholism, saying, “I love you, but I won’t watch you kill yourself.” [6] She married the writer and director John Morton in 1997, first meeting after she rang to tell him how much she liked his radio comedy "People Like Us" and he replied, "Thanks a lot.