Gabby Logan has admitted that her two children Reuben and Lois cringe when she talks about her sex life with her husband Kenny.
As the TV presenter, 50, started discussing what the intimacy with her rugby ace husband Kenny, 50, was like following his prostate cancer diagnosis, she didn’t want to go into too much detail.
The mother-of-two quipped that her children will go ‘mental’ if she continues speaking about sex, because they feel ‘she has already said enough’ on the subject.
Speaking to The Times, Gabby said: ‘I mean, I won’t talk about it in too much detail, my kids will go mental as they think I’ve already said enough.
‘But I think why it was important is because it is a taboo subject that people don’t really want to talk about.’
Gabby Logan, 50, has admitted that her two children Reuben and Lois, 17, cringe when she talks about her sex life with their father Kenny, 50
The mother-of-two quipped that her children will go ‘mental’ if she continues speaking about sex, because they feel ‘she has already said enough’ on the subject
She and her husband, Scottish rugby player Kenny have been married for 20 years and welcomed their twins through IVF.
Kenny was diagnosed with cancer in February 2022 after Gabby urged him to go to the doctors.
Last year, Kenny thankfully received the all-clear and while he says he is at ‘100 per cent’ mentally and physically he admits that his sex life is not ‘consistent’.
He got extremely candid about the after-effects of treatment, saying they left him ‘black and blue downstairs’.
Speaking to The Telegraph, 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”.’
Kenny went on: ‘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.’
As the TV presenter started discussing what the intimacy with her rugby ace husband Kenny was like following his prostate cancer diagnosis, she didn’t want to go into too much detail
Speaking to The Times, Gabby said: ‘I mean, I won’t talk about it in too much detail, my kids will go mental as they think I’ve already said enough’
Kenny was diagnosed with cancer in February 2022 after Gabby urged him to go to the doctors
Last year, Kenny thankfully received the all-clear and while he says he is at ‘100 per cent’ mentally and physically he admits that his sex life is not ‘consistent’
He got extremely candid about the after-effects of treatment, saying they left him ‘black and blue downstairs’
She and her husband, Scottish rugby player Kenny have been married for 20 years and welcomed their twins through IVF
Kenny appeared on BBC Breakfast in September with his wife and said he had no symptoms and ‘had to go looking for it’ in a stark warning about how insidious prostate cancer can be.
‘I literally fell over,’ he said of the February 7 diagnosis. ‘I didn’t see it coming. No symptoms whatsoever… It’s hard.
‘I found I had prostate cancer by accident. If you have symptoms it might be too late. Guys go get tested, simple and could save your life.’
The couple said Logan 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.
‘I got checked and very quickly, within three to four months, I had a biopsy and they said there was something there but they’d keep an eye on it,’ he said.
He said what stood out the most from that appointment was the specialist telling him ’40 per cent of [his] mates have got this [high PSA levels] but don’t know’. It doesn’t always lead to cancer and many men go their entire lives not knowing.
So when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a short time later, Logan recalled it being ‘a huge shock’.
Sticking together: Kenny hopes his diagnosis will fuel more open discussions in the community, noting men are particularly ‘notorious’ for suffering in silence and not scheduling regular check ups with doctors
He made the decision to remove the prostate entirely and is now three months post operation feeling almost as good as new.
‘I’m probably about 90 per cent back to normal,’ he said.
Gabby spoke about his tough journey back to good health, noting her husband appeared entirely fine right up until the day of the operation.
‘He did a bike session, he had no pain, no symptoms and to go in and have… a really invasive surgery, it obviously takes a long time to recover from,’ she said.
‘You’re going to feel a lot worse off after it… but [we’re] very, very, very lucky.’
Kenny hopes his diagnosis will fuel more open discussions in the community, noting men are particularly ‘notorious’ for suffering in silence and not scheduling regular check ups with doctors.
Prostate cancer can often be treated if caught early, but symptoms usually do not show up until the cancer is already in advanced states.
It is the most common cancer in men in the UK. The couple are encouraging men to learn more about the disease and consider talking to their GP about the risks.
Every year, upwards of 52,300 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK – more than 140 every day.
Up to 11,800 men in Britain die from prostate cancer annually, meaning it trails only lung and bowel cancer in yearly fatalities.
