Gabby Logan
Gabrielle Nicole Logan MBE is a British presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast. She is best known for her presenting roles with BBC Sport and ITV. Logan hosted Final Score for BBC Sport from 2009 until 2013. She has also presented a variety of live sports events for the BBC, including a revived episode of Superstars in December 2012. Since 2013, she has co-hosted Sports Personality of the Year for theBBC.
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Gabrielle Nicole Logan MBE is a British presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast. She is best known for her presenting roles with BBC Sport and ITV. Logan hosted Final Score for BBC Sport from 2009 until 2013. She has also presented a variety of live sports events for the BBC, including a revived episode of Superstars in December 2012 and the London Marathon since 2015. Since 2013, she has co-hosted Sports Personality of the Year for theBBC and she presented the second series of The Edge in 2015. Logan was born in Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire to former Welsh international footballer and manager Terry Yorath and his wife Christine. She attended Bishop Ullathorne RC School in Coventry, Cardinal Heenan High School and Notre Dame Sixth Form College in Leeds and read Law at the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham University. Logan played netball at school and at university and also competed in the high jump, but the peak of her sporting career was when she placed 11th in rhythmic Gymnastics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. Logan runs and plays golf and is a supporter of Newcastle United stretching back to her time at Durham University, where her then boyfriend was a childhood fan. She remembers her first match as Newcastle’s 1–0 Premier League victory over Everton on 25 August 1993 and made visits by air or rail to St James’ Park throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, including Newcastle’s 5–0 win over Manchester United on 20 October 1996.
Logan is one of a small number of female sports presenters to have made the transition to terrestrial television. After ITV lost the terrestrial rights to the Premier League, she presented their UEFA Champions League coverage, including the 2005 and 2006 finals, between A. C. Milan and Liverpool, and Arsenal and Barcelona, respectively. In 2015, Logan returned to ITV for reality series Flockstars. In an interview with Radio Times in November 2016, Logan admitted that Flock stars was her \”biggest disappointment\”. Logan continues to present and report on live football for the. BBC and Logan now deputises for Gary Lineker on Match of the Day. She previously reported on the 2003 Rugby World Cup for ITV and works alongside the likes of Jeremy Guscott, Keith Woodcott, Andy Nicol & Jonathan Davies. Amongst her main duties, Logan has been hosting live coverage of the World Championships in Athletics in 2013, European Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games 2014.
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