Gabby Logan on resilience, reinvention, and making TV history
White Wine Question Time
Stak
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is a trailblazer in sports broadcasting, a former international gymnast turned award-winning presenter who’s become one of the most respected voices at the heart of some of the UK’s biggest sporting moments: it’s the brilliant Gabby Logan!
In this episode, Gabby reflects on her transition from athlete to broadcaster and the resilience that has defined her career since she faced the shock of being let go by ITV mid-World Cup while juggling life as a new mum to one-year-old twins. Now, she’s stepping into one of the most iconic roles in football as part of the Match of the Day presenting team — she shares what it means to her and how it feels to take on such a landmark role.
She also opens up about life beyond broadcasting, where she’s navigating the empty nest phase as her twins set off on their own big adventures, rediscovering life as a couple with her husband Kenny, and diving into her passion for health, longevity, and midlife reinvention.
If you can’t get enough of Gabby, tune into her hit podcast The Midpoint wherever you get your podcasts, and catch her making history on Match of the Day next season alongside Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of white wine question time i kind of felt i was maybe going to have |
| 0:11.5 | to shift and do something completely different because i had a boss that wasn't really |
| 0:14.4 | into me and wanted to slightly promote me and yeah took me off a world Cup in 2006 my kids were a year old and I was |
| 0:23.2 | flying off to Germany leaving my babies behind going to the World Cup and in the middle of the |
| 0:27.5 | World Cup he kind of sideline me and I came home with my tail between my legs feeling oh I'm just not |
| 0:35.1 | I didn't take it in the middle of the World Cup? |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, so I was due to do so many knockout games and he said, I just don't come back, basically. |
| 0:43.7 | He's really nervous about doing it in front of me. |
| 0:45.5 | Because it's performers that you took into. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah, performer. |
| 0:47.5 | And after about 45 minutes, I'd resisted saying anything, because the teacher can't have her eyes on everybody. And after 45 minutes, I said, oh, I think your leg just needs to go a bit further back. |
| 0:57.1 | And he went, fuck off. |
| 1:02.6 | He was, except fuck off in his Scottish accent. |
| 1:05.3 | So everybody in the first year, |
| 1:07.1 | I just burst out laughing because, obviously, |
| 1:09.5 | he was so cross with me for correcting him. |
| 1:11.6 | But I'd done so well not correcting him until that point. |
| 1:14.6 | I was kidding you. |
| 1:15.6 | I said, I think it's best we keep this hobby separate for a while. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, we'll just you do you and I'll do me on the reform. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm just going to be really bendy over here. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah. |
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