‘I realised that I’d been worried about him not being 16 because Daniel never got there’: Gabby Logan reveals fear of son Reuben suddenly dying after her younger brother died as a teen
- Gabby Logan was terrified her son Reuben would die before the age of 16 after her brother died as a teenager
- The television presenter, 49, suddenly realised she was living in fear when Reuben celebrated his 16th birthday
- Former international rhythmic gymnast Gabby, who is set to host the Qatar World Cup with Gary Lineker, lost h
Gabby Logan was terrified her son Reuben would die before the age of 16 after her brother died as a teenager.
The television presenter, 49, suddenly realised she was living in fear when Reuben celebrated his 16th birthday.
Former international rhythmic gymnast Gabby, who is set to host the Qatar World Cup with Gary Lineker, lost her brother Daniel, an aspiring footballer, when he was 15 when he collapsed and died.
Living in fear: Gabby Logan, 49, was terrified her son Reuben would die before the age of 16 after her brother died as a teenager
Gabby, who is mother to both Reuben, now 17, and his twin sister Lois, explained on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett podcast according to the Mirror: ‘When my son was nearly 16 – a few days from Daniel’s birthday – I realised that I’d been worried about him not being 16 because Daniel never got there.
‘So I did have a fear I was going to repeat history.’
Gabby said she also obsessed over the birth dates of young footballers when she first started working in television as she was worried they would meet the same fate as her brother.
Family affair: The television presenter suddenly realised she was living in fear when Reuben celebrated his 16th birthday (pictured with Rueben’s twin sister Lois and husband Kenny)
Loved ones: Gabby (centre) at the age of four with her brother Daniel (right), who was one, and her sister Louise (left), who was three, with father Terry Yorath and his wife Christine in 1978
Daniel, who was four years younger than her, had an undiagnosed heart problem and died in 1992 after playing football in the garden with their father, former Leeds United star Terry Yorath.
Gabby added: ‘Even a few years afterwards I could find myself sobbing. When I started working in football I used to be obsessed with dates of players’ births because they would be Daniel’s age.
‘And I knew he might be playing in that match. You wonder, ‘What kind of player would he have been?’. I wonder if he’d have had a girlfriend by now, or met somebody he wanted to marry, or now I wonder if he’d have children.’
Elsewhere on the podcast Gabby down as she detailed her husband Kenny’s prostate cancer treatment, saying he had ‘six stab wounds he had to have in his torso’.
Former Scottish rugby international Kenny, 50, was diagnosed with cancer in February after Gabby, 49, urged him to go to the doctors.
‘He had to have six stab wounds in his torso – it’s horrible to see him in pain’: Gabby Logan broke down in tears as she gave an update on her husband Kenny’s prostate cancer treatment
She said: ‘He [Kenny] was really upset as you can imagine and I just thought, “Right no, this is going to be absolutely fine, what are we going to do? What are the answers here?”
‘His neurologist was brilliant, he’s a brilliant communicator and told us what the options were and I was like.
‘[I said] We’ve just to get a plan together, you need to know what you’re doing and then we will keep being positive about it.
‘That’s what we did really, once we got over the initial shock, we just really kind of focused on it as a project we had to deal with and it’s a b****y awful operation.’
BBC Sports Presenter Gabby and Kenny share two children together and she said she feels deep down that she won’t lose her husband to cancer.
Breaking down in tears as she spoke about her rock, Gabby said Kenny had to have six stab wounds in his torso which were ‘really invasive.’
Gabby said: ‘It’s horrible to see him in the pain he was afterwards, it’s a horrible thing to go through but he’s doing really really well now.’
And composing herself, she added: ‘He’s just great, I’m very lucky. He’s a great man and I couldn’t ever wish for anybody to have shared my life with, who is better.’
Her special man: Gabby and Kenny have been married for more than 20 years
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