Tracey MacLeod (born 30 October 1960 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is an English journalist and broadcaster.
MacLeod worked as a researcher for the BBC 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.
Her friend Helen Fielding partly based the Jude character in Bridget Jones's Diary on her, and she appeared as an extra in the literary party scene of the film, directed by Sharon Maguire.
[4] She has also been literary editor of Marie Claire, and radio critic of The Mail on Sunday.