Gabby Logan says ITV bosses found it “slightly difficult” to deal with when she announced that she was pregnant.
The presenter, 50, who fronted ITV’s Champions League football coverage in 2005 and 2006, claimed executives found it “tricky” having a pregnant host on their screens. She said “I think it was troubling and slightly difficult for some of the bosses I worked with.
“It was like, ‘OK, it’s one thing that we’ve accepted this woman to do this job, but a pregnant woman?’ And, even if they didn’t openly say that, I think it was quite tricky to kind of handle a little bit of that. And it was certainly challenging for me.”
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She added: “Travelling across Europe to present the Champions League was a physical challenge. But I was determined that I wanted to keep going and not use my pregnancy as a reason to shift back from what I was doing. But I did feel more under the microscope.”
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It comes after Gabby opened up to Lorraine Kelly about a health scare that affected hubby Kenny Logan and brought him into hospital. Logan, 50, was speaking on Lorraine’s ITV show about feeling so-called “empty nest syndrome” after her children are leaving home.
She was also on the show to promote her podcast The Midpoint, which helps chronicle Gabby’s mid-life crisis. The broadcasting legend and former gymnast was also speaking to Lorraine about a health scare that engulfed the family last year. At her suggestion, Gabby’s husband Kenny had a prostate exam that had shown something was not right.
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After doing some more tests, the rugby star was diagnosed as being in the early stages of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is one of the biggest killers of men in the UK, with 12,000 men dying of the disease every year.
“I was in my office, busy working on something and he said, ‘I’ve just been listening to your interview with Davina [McCall] and she talked about how hormones drop off in women, your libido can drop. What might happen to me?’,” Gabby recalled. She initially was frustrated with Kenny asking questions and referred him to Well Man to get checks done for his health.
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“He did and they said, ‘Don’t worry about your hormones, but do worry about your PSA’, which is to do with prostates and the number can represent the likelihood of developing prostate cancer. And, to cut a very long story short, a year and a half later – he was having a radical prostosectomy to remove the prostate,” she said.
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