Young and Jones put loch’s wallaby island on sale – Daily Business

Kirsty Young won’t be moving the Loch Lomond island

Scottish television presenter Kirsty Young and her husband Nick Jones, founder of the Soho House private clubs chain, have dropped their plans to build a home on a secluded island in Loch Lomond.

The couple spent just under £2 million in 2020 on Inchconnachan Island, where they planned to build a home.

Their only neighbours on the 103-acre wilderness would be a rare group of red-necked wallabies introduced in the 1940s.

After securing permission for a two-storey lodge, boathouse and private jetty, ill-health has intervened and forced them to put “wallaby island” up for sale.

Instead they will remain in the Cotswolds after Jones, 62, was successfully treated for prostate cancer, a decision that led him to step down from Soho House after almost 30 years as chief executive. 

“My priorities have changed,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “When you go through what I went through, you’re looking for a slightly smaller life rather than a bigger life.” 

Ms Young, 57, who made her TV breakthrough with Scottish Television, has suffered health problems of her own, standing down from presenting Desert Island Discs to receive treatment for a form of fibromyalgia. 

The lodge will be designed by Nicos Yiatros and Gunnar Groves-Raines of GRAS architects and has been designed to have “uninterrupted views across the loch to Ben Lomond”, according to Sotheby’s International Realty UK, the estate agent.

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