iview in April 2017. In 2017, Flanagan co-hosted New Year's Eve: The Early Night Show with Hoot the Owl, which screened on the ABC and ABC iview in December as part of the public broadcaster's New Year's Eve programming. Community and charity work In 2013, Flanagan and her dog Henry became ambassadors for Delta Society which involves taking trained therapy dogs to visit hospitals, care facilities and schools across Australia. As ambassador, Flanagan helped the Delta Society to spread the word and promote Delta Society's charitable programs including Delta Therapy Dogs, Classroom Canines and Delta Dog Safe. Flanagan is particularly fond of Delta's Classroom Canines program which uses the principles of dog therapy to assist children with reading difficulties and gets children excited about reading and writing. Flanagan has donated her time and talent to perform at charity and fundraising events such as Comedians Unite for the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal to help victims of Queensland's 2011 floods, and she donated half of the profits from her 2013 Bundaberg show to the Queensland Red Cross Flood Appeal. In 2009, Flanagan performed in Sydney at the Jerry Lewis 'Laugh For Life' Charity Concert to support Muscular Dystrophy Foundation Australia (MDFA) in their fund raising and awareness efforts to fight the devastating muscle wasting disease. Flanagan appeared alongside fellow Australian comedians Julia Morris, Paul McDermott, Mikey Robins, Peter Berner, Fiona O'Loughlin, and Tom Gleeson in the fundraising gig at Sydney's Enmore Theatre. In 2003 while Flanagan was living and working in the UK, she joined some of the UK's top comedians for a charity fundraiser hosted by fellow comedian Steve Coogan. Flanagan appeared alongside Ross Noble, Johnny Vegas, Simon Pegg, Tim Vine, Lee Mack, Matt Lucas, Rob Brydon and Mark Williams in Coogan's 'Drugathon 2' to raise funds for the Chemical Dependency Centre (now named Action on Addiction) and RAPt (The Rehabilitation of Prisoners Trust). Personal life Flanagan was born in Manly, a suburb in Sydney's north. Her father, John Flanagan, is an Australian author, best known for the Ranger's Apprentice and Brotherband novel series. Her sister, Penny Flanagan, is a musician and one half of 1990s indie band Club Hoy; she often appears in Kitty's shows. Her brother, Michael, is a chef and runs a coffee shop in the snowfields of Japan. Flanagan lives in Melbourne, with a Burmese cat named Sarge and two dogs, one a Havanese dog named Henry.