Aside from her acting and music career, Bassingthwaighte co-wrote her first book, "Sistahood: A Journal of Self-Discovery", with her younger sister in 2008. That same year, she made her debut as a television presenter, hosting "So You Think You Can Dance Australia" for its first three seasons, which earned her another three Logie Award nominations. From 2011 to 2014, she was a judge and mentor on "The X Factor Australia", and briefly joined "The X Factor New Zealand" in 2015. That same year, Bassingthwaighte launched her own children's clothing label, Chi Khi. Bassingthwaighte has been married twice; in 1998 she married Graham Wilmott, a chef from Wollongong, for two years. In December 2011, she married her former Rogue Traders bandmate Cameron McGlinchey. The couple have two children, a daughter named Harper Rain Sinclair McGlinchey and a son named Hendrix John Hickson McGlinchey.