Gabby Logan branded 'weird' by husband after tearful moment as daughter shares concerns
Gabby Logan was branded “weird” by her husband Kenny after she opened up about a recent moment that left her in tears.
The BBC Sport presenter previously welled up on her podcast when discussing an “empty nest” after daughter Lois, 19, went away to university. Her son Reuben, also 19, is a professional rugby player with Northampton Saints and is also often away from home. It prompted Gabby to find herself welling up recently when she drove past a school.
In a festive special of her Mid Point podcast, where she invited the rest of her family on, she said: “I was driving up the area we live in and there’s a grammar school near us and they obviously finished with a half day and the bus unloaded and all these boys with their black puffer jackets all got off, about 14, 15, and I found myself filling up a bit.”
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Kenny responded: “That’s weird. You were driving along and a whole lot of boys got off a bus and you started crying.”
Kenny explained he believes children need to be “able to fly” and “leave the nest with enthusiasm” rather than feeling as though they are “going to be missed” by their parents. Gabby explained she teared up because the moment prompted her to reminisce about Lois and Reuben finishing school for the term.
She elaborated: “I was remembering you guys being at school, having the end of term feeling and that lovely feeling when you’re a teenager and you finish school and having you to ourselves for a few weeks and not having the routine of school. When you’re a parent and you have kids at school you are then in a routine that you did necessarily choose.
“You are in a routine that the state has decided they want you to be in. Christmas in particular, the kids are absolutely shattered and you have time to smother them. And I kind of took myself back to that period.”
Kenny admitted he also missed the days when the children were younger, instead sharing “funky pictures” in the family WhatsApp group. Lois however says she was concerned about her dad after the pair bonded during her gap year at home.
She added: “I was worried about you dad; a little bit. You were emotional when Reuben went off and he was coming home every weekend and we spent a lot of time together on my gap year because you were carting me all over the country with the horses and I was worried you were going to feel a little bit lost.
“A lot of that year we were doing stuff but it was nice to know that you guys were still married.”
