Kirsty Young board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs", replacing Sue Lawley; 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 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,
Elaine Crowley (presenter) Elaine Crowley (presenter) Elaine Crowley (born 18 August 1977) is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader, best known for presenting TV3's "Midday" from 2010 to 2016. She currently presents her own titular daytime talkshow "Elaine" on TV3. Crowley studied at Dublin Institute of Technology before joining TV3 in 2000. She was a newsreader and a presenter on morning talk show "Ireland AM" before headlining panel show "Midday" from 2010 to 2016. Crowley has been open about her struggles with her weight and body image, and with clinical depression. In 2016, she took part in "Celebrity Operation Transformation" on RTÉ One.