Who is BBC Euro 2024 presenter Gabby Logan?
WHEN it comes to sports presenting, Gabby Logan is at the top of her game – and that is something football fans are expected to find out when the broadcaster joins the coverage for Euro 2024.
The popular presenter is well known for her work with the BBC, and has become one the UK’s leading hosts.
Gabby Logan is a popular sports presenterBBC
Who is Gabby Logan?
Gabrielle “Gabby” Logan was born on April 24, 1973, in Leeds to former Welsh international footballer Terry Yorath and his wife Christine.
As a child, she moved around a lot due to her dad’s career, which also sparked her interest in football.
Gabby inherited her dad’s athletic gene as she was good at netball and high jump at school but excelled at gymnastics.
She was a gymnast during her teen years and at her peak came in 11th place in rhythmic gymnastics while representing Wales at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
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Despite showing much promise in the sport, she had to retire from gymnastics aged 17 due to sciatica.
Who is Gabby Logan’s husband Kenny and do they have children?
Gabby is married to former Scotland international rugby union player Kenny Logan.
The pair wed on July 19, 2001.
After undergoing IVF treatment, Gabby gave birth to twins – son Reuben and daughter Lois on July 28, 2005.
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She was crowned Tesco Celebrity Mum of the Year in March 2012.
In 2022, Gabby’s husband Kenny revealed he had been battling prostate cancer.
Speaking about his diagnosis at the time, she shared: “He [Kenny] was really upset as you can imagine and I just thought, ‘Right no, this is going to be absolutely fine, what are we going to do? What are the answers here?’
“His neurologist was brilliant, he’s a brilliant communicator and told us what the options were and I was like, [to Kenny] ‘We’ve just got to get a plan together, you need to know what you’re doing and then we will keep being positive about it’.
“That’s what we did really, once we got over the initial shock, we just really kind of focused on it as a project we had to deal with and it’s a bloody awful operation.”
What TV shows has Gabby Logan presented?
After Gabby finished her degree at Durham University, Logan began presenting on Metro Radio in Newcastle.
She then became a presenter on Sky Sports in 1996 and left in 1998 to work for ITV.
Gabby co-hosted the celebrity diving reality show Splash! on ITV, alongside Vernon Kay and Olympic diver Tom Daley from 2013 until 2014.
From 2007, Logan started presenting for BBC sport and stands in for Gary Lineker on Match Of The Day.
She was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2007.
Logan has also hosted coverage of the Olympics, the London Marathon, the Commonwealth Games and the Aquatics World Championships.
Gabby has won Sports Presenter of the Year four times at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards in 2000, 2002, 2004, and in 2014.
