Aggie was born in Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, Scotland. At high school she discovered an aptitude for languages; she can say ‘filth’ in German, French, Italian and even Latin! Aggie and her three sisters were taught the art of cleaning by their mother, who deployed a dizzying array of remedies for spots and stains.
Aggie studied languages in Aberdeen, then went to London to work at the Foreign Office. On her first day, they told her she had been security-screened and would in fact be working for MI6. After two years she abandoned her Miss Moneypenny position to pursue a career in women’s magazines, and eventually ended up at Good Housekeeping as associate editor in charge of the Good Housekeeping Institute, testing the latest consumer appliances, developing and testing recipes and investigating new cleaning products and gadgets.
In 2002 Aggie was invited to take a screen test alongside housekeeper Kim Woodburn. A few months later ‘How Clean Is Your House?’ was born and Aggie and Kim became the nation’s dream cleaning team, with Aggie specialising in explaining the dangers of living in high levels of bacteria. For the past six years she’s been writing a weekly domestic queries column, Ask Aggie, for the Saturday Times, a collection of which has just been published by Penguin - and shot to Number One in the Home and Garden chart on Amazon. She also writes a monthly food page in Good Housekeeping, In Aggie’s Kitchen.
Most recently Aggie was invited to join a panel of housing experts from the world of politics, media, design and academia, chaired by Lord Best, in order to identify key issues in the future provision of housing for the elderly. The report and film will be presented to the Ministerial Advisory Group with recommendations for future government policy in this important area of housing development.
TV credits include How Clean is Your House?, Too Posh to Wash, Come Dine with Me, The F Word, Never Mind the Full Stops, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Richard and Judy, This Morning, GMTV, The Jonathan Ross Show, Graham Norton, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Children in Need, Loose Women, Saturday Kitchen, Ready Steady Cook, Big Brother’s Little Brother, Dead Ringers (by proxy!), The Wright Stuff, Breakfast News, The Paul O’Grady Show, Hider in the House, Market Kitchen, The One Show, Dancing on Ice, Daily Cooks' Challenge, Britain's Best Dish, BBC News 24, Rodge and Podge (RTE), Daily Politics Show.

Ask Aggie is published by Penguin, £7.99