In 1999, Young competed in the first Celebrity Stars in their Eyes, winning the competition with her Peggy Lee impersonation, singing the hit "Fever".
Young then left Channel 5 to join ITV in 2000 and briefly hosted the quiz show The People Versus.
[citation needed] In 2004, she made an appearance on Room 101, during which she nominated cowboy boots, Britney Spears, Brazilian waxes and 'baby on board' stickers among her pet hates.
[citation needed] 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.
[citation needed] On 29 September, a month after leaving Channel 5, the BBC announced that Young would succeed Fiona Bruce as the presenter of Crimewatch.
[citation needed] On 31 August 2018, it was announced that Young would be stepping down from Desert Island Discs "for a number of months" to receive treatment for a form of fibromyalgia, and that Lauren Laverne would deputise during this period.
[13] In July 2019, Young announced that she was to stand down as the host of Desert Island Discs, saying: "Having been forced to take some months away from my favourite job because of health problems, I'm happy to say I'm now well on the way to feeling much better.
[15] Young fronted the later part of the BBC's television coverage of the state funeral of Elizabeth II at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on 19 September 2022.
[24] On Christmas Day 2022, Young appeared as the interviewee on Desert Island Discs, the programme that she had hosted up until 2018, when she stepped down for health reasons, suffering from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.
In an interview on 8th August 2024 with Emma Barnett, Young said she was living in chronic pain and said she felt a sense of "failure and shame", as well as a reluctance to talk about it to other people.