Gabby Logan tells secret to making 24-year marriage with Kenny work
BBC presenter Gabby tied the knot with former Scottish rugby union player Kenny in 2001, just two years after they first started dating, and the couple welcomed twins in 2005
Gabby Logan has revealed the secret to making her 24-year marriage with husband Kenny work.
The BBC presenter, 51, tied the knot with former Scottish rugby union player Kenny back in 2001 after they dated for two years, and in 2005, they welcomed twins - son Reuben and daughter Lois. Gabby, who has a busy schedule thanks to her extensive work on BBC sports coverage, spoke about keeping her marriage to Kenny alive after more than two decades together, and confessed she took inspiration from sport to help keep them both happy.
She compared her marriage to a “team sport”, and told Best magazine that they take it in turns to help each other through tricky patches. “Sometimes there’s going to be a player who needs picking up, and other times they’re the star of the game and it’s someone else who needs the boost,” Gabby explained. “With a marriage it’s the same: you’re never walking along the same bit of road at the same time.”
She also said her and Kenny “never stop working” at their relationship, and said every marriage “needs a bit of an assessment” regularly. Earlier this month, she confessed she had refused to talk about her marriage for fear of “jinxing” it, and is now happy to share just how content she is with Kenny. “I used to be really nervous talking about it. I thought I’d jinx it. But we’re very much a team,” she told The Sun.
Gabby also touched upon their long-distance relationship, and said despite their busy schedules, they see each other more often than people realise. “You can't be apart all the time and expect everything to be great,” she added.
In his 2010 memoir Just For Kicks, Kenny recalled being “dumbstruck” when he first met Gabby, and decided to propose after just seven months of dating. “I was in the K Bar in Fulham with a few of the Wasps boys and in walked this blonde bombshell, who I recognised from the telly,” he wrote. “She was with someone I knew, Tamsin from Sky Sports, so I sidled up to them and got myself an introduction. was dumbstruck. Dumbstruck and incredibly excited.”
The couple also managed to weather a devastating health scare in 2022, when Kenny was diagnosed with prostate cancer. After undergoing treatment, the former rugby star was given the all-clear, but he confessed that there had been some long-lasting effects on the couple’s sex life. “Six months on, I would say I'm physically 100 per cent, mentally 100 per cent, feel good. From a sexual point of view, it's not consistent. As the surgeon said to me, this could take 18 months,” he said in an interview with The Telegraph last year, as she discussed erectile dysfunction.
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