Kirsty Jackson Young was born on 23 November 1968 and is a Scottish television and radio presenter.
21 Facts About Kirsty Young
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Kirsty Young presented Crimewatch on BBC One from 2008 to 2015.
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Kirsty Young attended Cambusbarron Primary School and Stirling High School.
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Kirsty Young returned in June 2008 to officially open the school's new building.
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Kirsty Young left Scotland Today in 1996 to become a relief presenter for The Time, The Place and appeared on the Holiday programme.
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Kirsty Young co-hosted a consumer show, The Street, on BBC Two.
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Kirsty Young then left Channel 5 to join ITV in 2000 and briefly hosted the quiz show The People Versus.
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In November 2003, Kirsty Young presented an edition of Have I Got News for You.
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Kirsty Young has since featured on the show a further eleven times.
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In June 2006, Kirsty Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006.
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Kirsty Young returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Channel 5 News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor since the programme's inception on the same day as Channel 5's launch, a decade earlier.
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Kirsty Young presented the show from January 2008 until December 2015.
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On 31 August 2018 it was announced that Kirsty Young would be stepping down from Desert Island Discs "for a number of months" to receive treatment for a form of fibromyalgia, and that Lauren Laverne would deputise during this period.
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On 2 June 2022, Kirsty Young presented Platinum Beacons: Lighting up the Jubilee; BBC One's live coverage of the lighting of more than 1,500 beacons to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign.
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Kirsty Young fronted the later part of the BBC's television coverage of the state funeral of Elizabeth II at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on 19 September 2022.
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Kirsty Young received praise for her closing monologue at the end of the broadcast.
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Kirsty Young previously dated rugby player Kenny Logan; they separated after 3 years.
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Kirsty Young met and then married businessman Nick Jones, the founder of Soho House club.
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Kirsty Young has two daughters with Jones and two stepchildren, Jones' children from his first marriage to Tania.
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On Christmas Day 2022, Kirsty Young appeared as the interviewee on Desert Island Discs, the programme that she had hosted up until 2018, when she stepped down for well documented health reasons, suffering from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.
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In 2016 Kirsty Young was appointed president of Unicef UK; her successor in 2020 is actress Olivia Colman.