Background
Young was born in East Kilbride.
Young was born in East Kilbride.
She is the main presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio"s Desert Island Discs and used to present Crimewatch on British Broadcasting Corporation television Her media career began in 1989 when she worked as a continuity announcer for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland. In 1992 she moved to Scottish Television where she presented the main evening news programme, Scotland Today and also hosted her own chat show, Kirsty. She left Scottish television and Scotland itself in 1996.
That year she guest presented The Time, The Place and also featured on the Holiday programme.
She co-hosted consumer show The Street on British Broadcasting Corporation Two. In 1997, she joined the news team of the new terrestrial channel, Channel 5.
She left Channel 5 to join Independent Television in 1999 and hosted a quiz show called The People Versus in 2000. Young returned to Channel 5 in 2002 and hosted both the 5.30pm and 7pm editions until her maternity leave began in January 2006, when she was replaced by John Suchet and Helen Fospero.
In November 2003, she guest-presented an edition of Have I Got News for You As of June 2012 she has guest-presented ten times, and has appeared on the show eleven times in total.
She appeared on Room 101 in 2004 during which she nominated cowboy boots, Britney Spears and "baby on board" stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, it was announced that Young was to be the new presenter of the long-running British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, replacing Sue Lawley. Which she began on 1 October 2006.
According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1.
She then returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News.
On 29 September 2007, it was announced that Young would replace Fiona Bruce as a presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Crimewatch programme. She presented the show until December 2015.
From 11 January 2010, she presented a four-part British Broadcasting Corporation television series entitled The British Family.
In March–April 2011, she presented the television series The British at Work.
Quotations: "lieutenant only happened for a very fleeting few months and I dealt with it myself.".