Gabby Logan has revealed the secret to how she and husband Kenny make their 23-year marriage work so well.
The Sports presenter, 51, has been happily married to the retired Scottish rugby player, 52, for two decades after they tied the knot in 2001.
And Gabby says that the key to their relationship is to treat it like a ‘team sport’ and help each other through tricky patches.
Speaking to Best Magazine, she said: ‘Sometimes there’s going to be a player who needs picking up, and other times they’re the star of the game and it’s someone else who needs the boost.
‘With a marriage it’s the same: you’re never walking along the same bit of road at the same time.’
Gabby Logan, 51, has revealed the secret to how she and husband Kenny, 52, make their 23-year marriage work so well
The Sports presenter has been happily married to the retired Scottish rugby player for two decades after they tied the knot in 2001
Gabby also claims the key to marriage is to ‘make a conscious effort’ with each other.
Like any marriage, Gabby says ‘communication, having fun and making time to be together’ is the key to happiness.
She also stressed the importance of making effort, admitting: ‘If you have something special, you need to look after it’.
Speaking to The Sun, Gabby said: ‘I used to be really nervous talking about it. I thought I’d jinx it. But we’re very much a team.
‘The key to our relationship is communication, having fun and making time to be together. You can’t be apart all the time and expect everything to be great. We are lucky, as we see each other more than people realise.
‘The secret is to keep making an effort. Not to be crude, but if you had an amazing sports car, you couldn’t leave it in a garage for 15 years and expect it to work straight away. If you have something special, you need to look after it.’
Last month, Gabby spoke candidly about her sex life with Kenny, after he had his prostate removed.
Kenny was diagnosed with cancer in February 2022 after Gabby urged him to go to the doctors.
And Gabby says that the key to their relationship is to treat it like a ‘team sport’ and help each other through tricky patches
She said: ‘Sometimes there’s going to be a player who needs picking up, and other times they’re the star of the game and it’s someone else who needs the boost. With a marriage it’s the same: you’re never walking along the same bit of road at the same time’
Like any marriage, Gabby says ‘communication, having fun and making time to be together’ is the key to happiness
But Gabby also stressed the importance of making effort, admitting: ‘If you have something special, you need to look after it’
Gabby told The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio that they had to have a discussion about him potentially not having an erection again because that can be affected after treatment.
She confirmed that for them, it eventually came back but admitted that she wasn’t that ‘patient’ about it.
Speaking about an episode of The Mid.Point podcast she recorded with former rugby international Kenny about life post-prostate, Gabby said: ‘It’s Kenny and I talking frankly about what was going to happen.
‘Because there is a big risk of functionality and not being there.
‘Erectile function can be massively affected and it might not come back. Kenny was very lucky and eventually it did, but it took a while. His wife wasn’t as patient as she might have been.
‘I think the reason why I wanted to talk about it candidly was because, of course, if you’ve been together with somebody for a long time, and that’s a big part of your relationship then it is something that is going to affect the dynamics.
‘It’s huge. I’m trying not to use the wrong words. It’s huge.
‘He was obviously wanting us to be the couple that we were before and obviously was facing up to this potential huge physical change.’
Last month, Gabby spoke candidly about her sex life with Kenny, after he had his prostate removed (pictured October 2021)
Kenny was diagnosed with cancer in February 2022 after Gabby urged him to go to the doctors
Gabby and Kenny share 18-year-old twins Reuben and Lois
While Kenny received the all-clear last year was initally at ‘100 per cent’ mentally and physically, he previously admitted that his sex life was not ‘consistent’.
In February 2023, Kenny spoke candidly about the after-effects of treatment, and said they left him ‘black and blue downstairs’.
Speaking to The Telegraph at the time, he said: ‘Whether it be my dyslexia, my relationship, IVF, we’ve always been quite open. So, I was quite happy to talk about erectile dysfunction and all these other things because I was like, “It is a symptom”.’
‘From a sexual point of view, it’s not consistent. As the surgeon said to me, this could take 18 months.
‘Within a month, I was getting movement, where he says, “That’s amazing”. So it’s just not as consistent. The beauty is you can take a tablet and it changes things.’
He explained that his brave honesty was motivated by his desire to help other people.
Reiterating the need for all men his age to get checked, he said: ‘If I can help one person, that’d be great. But I’ve probably helped a lot of people with the coverage it had.’
The couple said Kenny was ‘extremely lucky’ they caught it early, which afforded him options regarding treatment.
Kenny was inspired to go for a general check up after hearing guests on his wife’s podcast discuss having their hormones tested. And when he did his results showed a high level of PSA – prostate-specific antigen.
