Gabby Logan: From Athlete to Leading Sports Broadcaster

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Gabby Logan Biography

Gabby Logan, born Gabrielle Nicole Logan is a well-known British television presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast. She has been broadcasting for more than 20 years and has been at the BBC since 2007, covering the biggest sporting events, including the Six Nations, Olympics, and football World Cup.

Gabby Logan Age

Logan is 51 years old as of 2024. She was born on April 24, 1973, in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Gabby Logan Height

She is 1.73 meters tall.

Gabby Logan Nationality

She is British.

Gabby Logan Education

Logan attended the Cardinal Heenan High School and Notre Dame Sixth Form College in Leeds. She later studied law at Durham University. Her education laid a foundation for her career in sports broadcasting, where she has become a well-known figure in the UK, covering a variety of sports events and programs.

Gabby Logan Parents

Logan’s parents are Terry Yorath, a former Welsh international footballer and manager, and Christine Yorath. She has three siblings. In 1992, Logan’s 15-year-old brother Daniel collapsed and died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Logan has actively appealed for the Daniel Yorath Appeal, which raises funds for the treatment and detection of the condition. Her brother Jordan Yorath (born 1986) played football for England Universities in 2008, and for Sheffield Wednesday, Halifax Town, and Wakefield F.C. Logan’s sister, Louise (born 1974), was a performer in Cirque Du Soleil’s Zumanity show. Her father, Terry Yorath, has struggled with alcoholism he got into as a way of dealing with the loss of his son Daniel. Terry and Christine also divorced after the death of Daniel.

Tragedy brings some families closer together but that wasn’t the case for us. We were close before, but eventually Mum and Dad divorced. I think my brother Jordan’s life was affected most dramatically because he was six when Daniel died, he saw him die and then he lived at home while all the changes in my parents’ relationship were going on. My sister and I had already flown the nest. I feel that he missed out on a normal life.

Gabby Logan Husband

Gabby married former Scotland international rugby union player Kenny Logan on 19 July 2001. The couple met in 1999 in a bar. She has said that meeting her husband was a motivation to exercise regularly again. The couple live in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. On 28 July 2005, after undergoing IVF treatment, Gabby gave birth to twins, a son named Reuben, and a daughter named Lois. Her husband Kenny was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022.

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Gabby Logan BBC

Logan is a former international gymnast who has been broadcasting for more than 20 years. She has been at the BBC since 2007, covering the biggest sporting events, including the Six Nations, Olympics, and football World Cup.

Logan began presenting on Metro Radio in Newcastle, and on Tyne Tees Television on their Tonight program, from where she was offered a job as a presenter on Sky Sports in 1996. She worked there until 1998 when she joined the ITV TV network.

Her career came to notice when she fronted On the Ball. She was one of a small number of female sports presenters to have made the transition to terrestrial television. After ITV lost the terrestrial rights to the Premier League, she presented their UEFA Champions League coverage, including the 2005 and 2006 finals, between A.C. Milan and Liverpool, and Arsenal and Barcelona, respectively. Logan left ITV for BBC Sport in December 2006, In 2003, she reported on the Rugby World Cup. Also that year, Logan presented a program called Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies featuring a young Jessie J.

She co-hosted the celebrity diving show Splash! on ITV, alongside Vernon Kay and Olympic diver Tom Daley from 2013 until 2014.

In 2015, Logan returned to ITV for the reality series Flockstars, a show she later said was her “biggest disappointment”. In June 2011, while still presenting the sports results shows for BBC One on Saturdays, Logan joined Channel 5 to present a discussion and magazine show following The Wright Stuff at 11:10 am each weekday initially called The Wright Stuff Extra, and later renamed as Live with Gabby. On 5 April 2012, the show tweeted to confirm that Logan was leaving the program.

Gabby Logan Salary

Logan’s salary ranges from £240,000 to £244,999 according to the annual reports published by BBC about its highest-paid stars.

Gabby Logan Net Worth

Her net worth ranges between £1 million to £5 million.

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