Leila McKinnon started her TV career in 1993 where she worked in Rockhampton at WIN Television before going on to WIN's Cairns bureau. Two years later Leila began reporting and presenting Gold Coast News with the Nine Network and then moving to A Current Affair in Brisbane where she specialized in exposing con men and in 2001 moved back into the news department in Sydney. In 2005 McKinnon was presenting the National Nine News bulletin and in 2006 she is traveling all over the country recording stories for What's Good For You on the Nine Network.
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 40, a son Edmund McKinnon Gyngell on October 17, 2012 at 2 am. Childs father is her husband, David Gyngell.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 41, a daughter Gwendolen Gyngell on May 21, 2014. Childs father is her husband, David Gyngell.
