The Crush: Kirsty Young

How close we came to a Scottish ‘Yes’ vote got Crush all misty-eyed and thinking of its favourite Scottishy things: Tunnock’s Teacakes, that time Snoop Dogg wore a kilt, but mostly Kirsty Young.

OK, we admit our love for the Desert Island Discs presenter was somewhat slow-burning, but she married the man who invented Soho House, FFS, so do forgive Crush for being excited at the idea of all the cocktails, the Cowshed facials, the nights we could spend luxuriating with the media elite in rustic-chic splendour from Shoreditch to Chicago.

Now our feelings for Kirsty, aka the best thing on Radio 4 that isn’t The Archers, are simply on fire. Her soothing, velvety voice had us at ‘Hello and welcome…’ She’s such a good listener, we just want Kirsty to know all our darkest secrets and are sure — like Lily Allen, who told her she won’t stop her kids taking drugs, and Yoko Ono, who chose a song by The Cheeky Girls — that we’d say something we’d regret. But thankfully, KW strikes us as totally non-judgemental (unless you end up on her other show, Crimewatch).

She also seems practical; the sort of person who, were she marooned on an island, would take her eight records and make a raft. Add to this a knack for perfect power-dressing and dainty yet authoritative desk-perching, and Kirsty is our ultimate highbrow pin-up.