Where is Kirsty Young now? What does Kirsty Young do now?

Popular radio and television presenter, Kirsty Young returned earlier this year (2022) to the radio and tv shows. She got back to BBC Radio 4 show for its Christmas Day episode, however, she returned as an interviewee. In 2018, she stepped down as host of Desert Island Discs after suffering from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.

She said that she had to step down because she was going through so much pain.

“Chronic pain grinds you away. You lose your personality, you lose your sense of humor, you lose your sense of self – there are all sorts of things that go with it. It’s awful,” she said.

The sickness she suffered from, ‘Fibromyalgia, “causes pain all over the body and can bring on severe fatigue, while rheumatoid arthritis causes pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints. The long-term conditions are often linked,” sources report.

According to her, she found a brilliant doctor who advised her to reduce her workload.

“Well, part of getting better is, we can introduce all sorts of drugs, we can monitor you, but you have to reduce the stress in your life and you have to take this seriously. You can’t just keep shoveling painkillers down your neck, which don’t work anyway, and feeling shocking,” he reportedly said.