UPFRONT Q&A
#OBSESSED Gabby Logan, 42, TV sports presenter Interview by
Samuel Fishwick
A former Commonwealth Games gymnast, Logan is one of BBC Sport’s best-known faces, having presented the Six Nations, the Olympics and Match of the Day since joining in 2007, following stints at Sky Sports and ITV. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband Kenny Logan, a former Scotland rugby international, and their ten-year-old twins.
FASHION If I’m not working, I’ll always put sports gear on to force myself to do something active. Nowadays there’s such amazing kit, so you don’t feel like a PE teacher, and half the mums at the school gate are wearing Sweaty Betty or yoga pants. I like traditional workout gear — Nike, Asics and Lululemon.
ONLINE Green Party leader Natalie Bennett’s parody account on Twitter was hilarious while it lasted, although it seems to have disappeared. Her alter ego ‘Nuttily Bennett’ kept launching really outrageous environmental policies such as building bridges between continents to save on air miles.
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Former British tennis number one Annabel Croft and I had a knockabout on the court on Clapham Common the other week as part of the LTA Great British Tennis Weekends campaign. I think she was going easy on me because we were playing with kids, although I do have a cracking backhand. I mix things up with swimming, running with my dogs and yoga, which is the only thing I have a regular teacher for at one-on-one sessions.
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Ed Sheeran always comes across very well, but he has a naughty streak. I seem to borrow a lot of crushes from my daughter. We went to see The DUFF a while ago and she came out saying, ‘I think I’ve got a crush on Robbie Amell,’ who was starring in it. I said, ‘I think I have, too!’ TV When James Nesbitt is on the box I know the show is going to be worth watching. Dominic West always draws me in, too — I loved The Wire and The Affair.
BOOKS Gareth Thomas’ autobiography Proud is an inspirational story about coming out as a Welsh rugby international. You don’t have to have had that experience to take great inspiration from it. It must have been absolute torture for him to have to live a double life. I worry it might take another ten years for sportsmen to feel comfortable about coming out. The next Great British Tennis Weekend is on 1-2 August. To book and for more information, visit lta.org.uk/gbtw BBC
My mum described our house as ‘country chic’. There’s a humongous picture of a cow, from the farm where my husband grew up in Scotland, hanging in our hall, painted by the artist Jenny Kerr. I went past a gallery in Edinburgh not too long ago and her works were going for £10,000.
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