Gabby Logan's sex talk became son's gym playlist as rugby team-mates poke fun
Young Sale Sharks star Reuben Logan had to endure his mother, Gabby Logan, speaking about her sex life as his rugby team-mates used her podcast as their gym playlist
Gabby Logan opened up about her sex life on a podcast and it later became the soundtrack to her son's gym session as his team-mates poked fun at the teenager.
Reuben Logan, The Scotland Under-20s international, is now on the books at Sale Sharks. However when he's been shifting weight in the gym he's had to put up with the incredibly unusual sound of his mum, the new Match of the Day host, discussing her sex life with his dad, Kenny.
He has followed in the footsteps of his father, the former Scotland and Wasps wing. Kenny he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022 and received treatment before he underwent a successful operation. 76 per cent of men experience erectile dysfunction in the aftermath of treatment for prostate cancer, according to research, which led to a positive discussion around the couple's activity.
The very public chat surrounding his parents’ sex life was seen both in the press and then on Gabby’s The Mid Point podcast. That became music to the ears to his rugby team-mates, who proceeded to have it on repeat during their gym workouts.
He told the Telegraph: “I will openly say now that I said: ‘Can. You. Please. Stop'. I remember being in the gym at Saints and the podcast was being played for half the gym session. It was only my second or third month there!
"I did not know that that podcast had happened until I had heard it and I remember saying to her: ‘What have you been talking about online?’ ‘It’s good!’ she said. I said: ‘I’m sure it is but you do have a late-teenage son in a rugby environment, so you have to think about that!’ Maybe Lois [Reuben’s twin sister] was not affected at university with her friends but I might have been.
“And [unlike the transfer reveal] that wasn’t a slip-up! She wasn’t hiding talking about that. But, yeah, I got a bit of stick from a few lads I knew here when [the transfer reveal] came out. Mum didn’t think it was a big deal.”
Kenny said on his recovery: "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."
Reuben admitted that his father's diagnosis did come as a shock, especially given his age, but that only added to his desire to cut it on the rugby pitch.
“It was a bit of a shock because you never think that’s going to happen to your dad,” he said. “It happens to a lot of people but you never think it’s going to affect you, especially when your dad is 51, 52 or whatever he was at the time, and very healthy. There was an added element during that period of making him proud."
Logan recently swapped Northampton for Sale and wants to take the next step after making a Premiership debut for the Saints off the bench at Exeter at the end of last season.