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Gabby Logan: Sex chat on podcast embarrasses my teenage son
Broadcaster’s public discussion of intimacy with husband frustrates professional rugby player son, whose teammates tease him
Gabby Logan has said that talking about sex on her podcast embarrasses her teenage son.
The veteran sports broadcaster, 51, has revealed that her 19-year-old son’s rugby teammates play clips of her discussing her intimate life in their dressing room.
Speaking to Emily Dean’s Walking the Dog podcast, Logan admitted: “I make life really difficult for him by having [my own] podcast where I talk about my sex life.”
The BBC presenter’s son, Reuben Logan, plays rugby professionally for Northampton Saints in the East Midlands.
She continued: “He’s like, ‘Mum, it’s really nice that you and Dad have talked about his prostate cancer.
“Can you stop talking about your sex life for me though, because now I go into work, they play clips of The Mid Point in the dressing room at Northampton Saints.
“And he said, ‘It would really be helpful if you could just shut up for a while’ and it’s like, ‘Actually Reuben, next week’s episode… just on that.”
The former rhythmic gymnast, who led the BBC’s presenting team at the Paris Olympics this summer, hosts The Mid Point podcast series in which she discusses “what it means to be at the halfway stage of your life”.
She has previously spoken to guests including menstrual health experts, singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, comedian Romesh Ranganathan and TV presenter Lisa Snowdon.
During episodes with her husband Kenny, however, the spouses have discussed the former Scotland rugby international’s removal of his prostate in conversations that veer into subjects such as penis pumps, the size of his testicles and their first attempt at postoperative sex.
Speaking to The Times this year about the possibility of erectile dysfunction after prostate removals, she said: “He was very lucky. He was one of the third, as his urologist told us, who finds it comes back on its own.”
However, she explained that both her children get frustrated at her discussing their parents’ intimate life publicly.
“I won’t talk about it in too much detail; my kids will go mental as they think I’ve already said enough,” she added. “But I think why it was important is because it is a taboo subject that people don’t really want to talk about.”
She shares her two children, twins Reuben and Lois, with the retired Scottish rugby union player Kenny.
Logan also has a book titled The Midpoint Plan, described as a “midlife survival kit”.