Kirsty Jackson Young is a Scottish television and radio presenter. From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and previously presented Crime-watch on BBC One from 2008 to 2015.
Kirsty Young children: Freya Jones, Iona Jones
She got married in the year 1999 and had two children, they are Freya Jones and Lona Jones.
She was born in East Kilbride, a suburb of Glasgow in the United Kingdom on the 23rd of November 1968. She is 53 years of age. Her father is called Joe Jackson and he was a police detective, her mother’s name is Catherine Jackson also known as Rena was a secretary. She has a sibling namely Laura Ewing.
She went to Cambusbarron Primary School and Stirling High School. In June 2008 she officially open the school’s new building. She shared with viewers that she had suffered from bulimia as a teenager on the first episode of her first TV show. In a later interview, she said, “It only happened for a very fleeting few months and I dealt with it myself.”
She made up her mind not to attend university and her media career began as a runner and as a researcher.
Who is the father of Kirsty Young’s daughters?
She got married to Nick Jones who is a businessman and founder of Soho House club and the father of her two daughters.
She is also a stepmother to Jones’s two children from his previous marriage, their names are Natasha Jones and Oliver Jones.
Her estimated net worth is between $ 1.5 to $ 2 million.
She stands at the heights of 5 feet and 6 inches tall and weighs around 65 kg. She is fair in complexion and has blonde hair and blue eyes color.
