Sunday 27 November 2022 01:17 AM Kirsty Young returns to Desert Island Discs for this year's Christmas Special ... trends now
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Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young is to return to the show – as a guest.
Having presented the Radio 4 show for 12 years, interviewing nearly 500 castaways, she will be the star of the Christmas Day edition, the BBC announced today.
Ms Young, 54, who was forced to step down from the show in 2018 due to ill health, last night said it had been strange rejoining the long-running programme for her own episode, which was pre-recorded.
She joked: 'It was a slightly discombobulating and thoroughly enjoyable experience – although making anyone narrow down their favourite discs to just eight is frankly unreasonable. It'll never catch on.'
Ms Young joined Desert Island Discs in 2006 and soon became a firm favourite with its huge army of devotees.
She was forced to quit, however, after she was diagnosed with secondary fibromyalgia, a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Lauren Laverne, who interviewed her for the
