Happy Birthday Kirsty Jackson Young born 23rd November 1968 in East Kilbride.
I first remember Kirsty from her collaboration with Angus Simpson, they had a great chemistry between them.
Kirsty was brought up in Stirling and attended Cambusbarron Primary School and Stirling High School.
Kirsty’s journalistic career began in 1989, when she became a newsreader for BBC Radio Scotland. In 1992, she moved into television to present Scotland Today news programmes mainly with the aforementioned Angus.
She was the launch host of Five News in 1997 During her time as presenter of 5 News Kirsty received the prestigious Sir James Carreras Award for Outstanding New Talent of 1997 at the 46th Variety Club Show Business Awards. A month later, in March 1998, she was named Newscaster of the Year awards.
From January to September 1998,Kirsty co-hosted Talk Radio’s weekday breakfast programme. From 1994-95 she was the host of ‘Kirsty’, a bi-weekly live discussion programme on the week’s hot topics, on STV, also for STV she also presented Late Edition, a live, late-night entertainment and music show. In 1996 Kirsty was a guest presenter of ITV’s The Time, The Place. Her BBC credits include presenting and reporting for Holidays Out, Holiday `96 and Film `96 on BBC1, and presenting BBC2’s consumer affairs show, The Street.
She is a regular guest presenter for BBC2’s Have I Got News For You and was an occasional stand in for Michael Parkinson’s Radio 2 Show and Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 Show.
From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and previously presented Crimewatch on BBC One from 2008 to 2015.
In 2019 Kirsty revealed she suffered with fibromyalgia and has since eased back on her working life she is however is president of Unicef UK and still supports many charities.. Last month she did make a welcome return to broadcasting in a series of BBC podcast where she quizzes star guests on their youth, including Jamie Oliver, who admits he was 'really annoying'....what do you mean "was"?
