[10] Munchetty joined Working Lunch after the show was revamped in October 2008 and stayed with the programme until it was cancelled in July 2010.
Munchetty co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate on BBC One with Sally Taylor in September 2010.
She was a contestant on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, having been paired with Pasha Kovalev,[18] and being voted out in week four (16 October 2016).
In 2017, Munchetty joined the cast of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed playing a fictionalised version of herself as a Media Studies teacher who acts like a newsreader.
[22][23] In September 2019, Munchetty was ruled to have breached the BBC's guidelines by criticising US President Donald Trump for perceived racism.
That July, while presenting BBC Breakfast with Dan Walker, Munchetty took issue with Trump's comments telling his opponents to "go back" to the "places from which they came".
Several public figures, including Lenny Henry and Adrian Lester, signed an open letter asking the corporation to reconsider its ruling against her.
[32] In October 2012, she won the Hertfordshire de Paula Cup at Bishop's Stortford Golf Club.
[34][35][36] She is also a trustee of local theatre, Watersmeet, and a governor at St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth.
[37][38] Munchetty was diagnosed with adenomyosis in September 2022 and revealed her diagnosis during her BBC Radio 5 Live programme in May 2023.