Episode 116: Gabby Logan
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Gabby Logan is best known as a BBC sports presenter but has also turned her hand to stand up comedy for Sports Relief (2012), to writing her memoir called The First Half, and to ice baths on Freeze Your Fear (2022). She hosts an excellent podcast called Mid-Life in which she, a guest and an expert explore how to navigate the mysterious territory of middle age.
She has 18 year old twins and is married to retired Scottish rugby union player Kenny Logan. I spoke to Gabby a few months after her son Reuben had left the nest, with her daughter Lois following suit in a year, and she told me how the house is starting to feel too big.
We talked about her brother Daniel's sudden death in 1992 when he was 15, and Gabby was 19 - and how she and her family were - and still are - impacted by this tragedy. But Gabby has a core of positivity and stressed that people can go on to have a good life even when something so terrible happens.
Gabby represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 as a rhythmic gymnast, which Gabby so perfectly described as: where sport meets showbiz. The brightly-coloured leotards she wore were not a million miles from what I wear on stage now - but she wasn't too impressed by my opening bid to buy them as a job lot. I'll keep working on her!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, happy new year. |
| 0:37.2 | How's it going? I'm at home today. I took down the tree. It's Saturday, |
| 0:44.4 | the 6th of January. Is that too late? I wasn't really sure if it's supposed to be the 5th or the 6th, |
| 0:50.5 | and then we'd run out of time on the 5th. So yeah, yeah took down the tree today so it's kind of annoying |
| 0:56.5 | i mean i love having the decorations up but then again our tree had done good service and was kind of |
| 1:04.1 | looking quite dead if i'm honest with you like when i took the decorations off a lot of the branches |
| 1:07.5 | snapped and that kind of thing but it's also quite funny because because Richard and I were doing a bit of a look around. |
| 1:14.0 | Have we definitely got all the decorations packed up? |
| 1:16.0 | And actually, to be honest, in our house, it's quite hard to tell. |
| 1:18.3 | There's a lot of things I collect that could definitely double as a decoration. |
| 1:23.1 | But anyway, I hope everything's right with you. |
| 1:26.2 | Hope you had a lovely Christmas, however you spent it. |
| 1:30.2 | And New Year, we did my favourite thing for New Year. |
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