BBC Sports Personality of the Year is back for 2023 and there are some familiar faces at the helm.
Among them is presenter Gabby Logan, who is well known to BBC viewers having fronted its live sport coverage for over 15 years. Her credits include hosting Final Score, the London Marathon, the Olympics and the Six Nations, while she also hosted shows on BBC Radio 5 Live.
But while she has carved out a successful career for herself, Logan, the daughter of a Welsh international footballer, has also battled to overcome a tragedy that rocked her family, while her marriage to former Scotland rugby player Kenny has not all been smooth sailing. Here's everything you need to know.
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Family tragedy
Logan is the daughter of former Wales football manager Terry Yorath and represented Wales in rhythmic gymnastics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
However, just two years later, Logan's family were rocked by tragedy when her 15-year-old brother Daniel died after collapsing from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy while playing football with her dad in his garden.
Describing the tragic event as "a sledgehammer [that] shattered the family into a million pieces," the TV presenter explained: "We had no warning. He had a congenital heart defect which meant that from the outside and ostensibly his fitness was just beyond you know. He was in the top 0.00 per cent. His heart was enlarged and basically was about to give way and pack up on him but there were no signs at all.
"He was never breathless. When he did die, he died in the garden playing football with my dad. He was just kicking the ball about and keeled over. It was absolutely cataclysmic. It defined the rest of our youth and has defined how the family has gone on from those years and it leaves its mark in many ways. It was a really hard time for everybody and to this day the ramifications are still there."
Logan, who was 19 at the time, credits dealing with the aftermath of such an awful event as something that drove her on to have a successful career. "When my brother died, I definitely had a sense that I had to have a purpose," she explaine "And so I didn't know what that purpose was, but I felt like I had to have purpose in what I did, which goes back to dynamism, I guess."
The tragedy saw her father - who had spells in charge of swansea-city-fc>Swansea City and Cardiff City - turn to drink as he narrowly avoided jail for crashing into a woman while three times over the limit in 2004. He blamed his "stupidity" on his personal heartache, with his heavy drinking sessions also leading to the breakdown of his 33-year marriage to childhood sweetheart Christine.
"I enjoyed being with Daniel and it was mutual. He was the light of my life," he said. "At first I thought I could control my own grief. I didn't want to share it with anyone. I didn't want to communicate, even at home. I would wrap myself in silence. Christine tried to get through to me but I am stubborn. You just want to close your eyes and your ears and follow your nose.
"Maybe I am not brave enough to go to counselling in case it hurts more. And I think I don't really want to leave my grief behind, even though it doesn't do my life any good. The picture I have in my mind of Daniel falling torments me, but just before he fell was the last time I saw him alive."
Marriage 'regret'
Gabby married former Scotland international rugby union player Kenny Logan in July 2001 and have teenage twins, Reuben and Lois, who were conceived after IVF treatment. However, while they are proud parents, with Reuben representing Northampton Saints and Lois an up-and-coming showjumper, the TV presenter has spoken about her regret at not having more children.
Speaking on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, she admitted: "I thought I'd have more children, I always thought I'd have four children. Just the other night I said to Kenny, when we were talking about our empty house and the future, that we should have had more children.”
While she admitted it was "out of her control in many ways”, Logan said that she was often left thinking: “How did that happen?”
“I think I know how it happened, because when you have twins as your firstborn, you think life's going to get back to normal and it never does," she added. “I mean, that's the same with everybody, but we were waiting for that day where we felt: ‘Everything's under control now. Now we can have another baby.’
Lamenting that "we should have just gone for it straight away," Logan added: “We were naively thinking that our old life of being more, I suppose, hedonistic and selfish was somehow going to come back.”
Gabby and Kenny faced a further challenge last year when the former Scotland star was diagnosed with prostate cancer. While he has now been given the all-clear, the diagnosis over Zoom rocked the family, with the ex-international left sobbing in his wife's arms.
He told the Mirror: "Gabby was in the room. She was behind the screen getting ready for another meeting. We were so not prepared. But when we both heard those words… that I had prostate cancer, she stopped what she was doing, and we just looked at each other.
“So many things went through my mind. I thought, how can this happen? I’m an ex-sportsman. I’ve looked after my body. I had no symptoms. I asked the consultant whether I was eating the wrong foods and whether my diet was to blame. He said no, it was just one of those things.
"As soon as I turned off the Zoom call, I burst into tears. My wife and I held each other, and we cried.”
Kenny added that agreeing to regular PSA testing was what ultimately saved his life, with the consultant explaining that they had caught the cancer early enough to manage.
“The check-ups saved my life because the cancer was detected before it had a chance to spread," he said. “Otherwise, I would have waited until I had a reason to see the doctor, and then it would have been too late.”
Alan Shearer affair rumours
Logan's marriage was also hit by rumours of affair over a decade ago - but her and Kenny both knew there wasn't "a grain of truth" in the claims.
The mystery man involved? Former England striker turned Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.
Logan opened up on the controversy in her 2022 memoir The First Half, explaining she was aware that lots of injunctions were being placed on tabloid press organisations at the time as 'wealthy and famous people' were trying to prevent 'bad' news from being released.
At the time, there was a "rumour swirling" that a former footballer was trying to prevent one such story from reaching the press. And soon enough, a message popped up on Logan's Twitter timeline in 2011 reading: 'I hear this injunction concerns @gabbylogan who is having an affair with Alan Shearer'.
The TV presenter recalled: "I laughed when I read it. Then I got angry. Then I panicked."
Logan had a facial appointment, so hastily replied saying "I think you should be careful what you write on here. The publishing laws apply and you are guilty of defamation of character with that." However, on the following Sunday, The News Of The World published an article entitled 'TV’s Gabby Logan denies affair with Alan Shearer', which Logan described as being 'absolute nothingness'.
The story tried to link Shearer and Logan together whilst at the 2010 World Cup, but Logan explained that Shearer was based in Cape Town, whilst she was in Rustenburg with the England team.
