Gabby Logan fought back tears as she opened up about her husband Kenny’s devastating prostate cancer diagnosis on Tuesday’s BBC Breakfast.
Former Scotland rugby star Kenny, 50, revealed his cancer diagnosis back in February after listening to Gabby’s podcast The Mid Point, in which she discussed the changes middle-aged women face with their body following the menopause.
Months on from his diagnosis, broadcaster Gabby was left in tears as she discussed the couple’s upcoming joint podcast episode in which Kenny’s details his treatment with BBC Breakfast host Sally Nugent.
When asked how she stayed “calm” during the recording, an emotional Gabby said: “Because it’s my job, I suppose I went into ‘work mode’ a bit, and kind of sat there, and we were in my office and because I record my podcast there, it’s the same seat that I do all of my interviews.
“So sort of turned myself into interviewer and tried to talk to Kenny in a way that we could illicit information. I want people to listen to it and learn about it.”
Speaking about the episode of Gabby’s podcast that prompted him to get checked, Kenny explained: "I was actually listening to one of the episodes about menopause about women and their hormones falling off a cliff.
“As I was going through this in my head, and I thought ‘what about me’, ‘what is happening to me’, and Gabby said that I should go and get checked.
“I went to get a wellness check and he said that everything was fine with my hormones, but your prostate is high, your PSA is high so you should go and get checked.
“I had a biopsy, but this year on February 7, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was a huge shock.”
The sports star explained that he underwent surgery three months ago to have his prostate removed, choosing the procedure over having radiotherapy or brachytherapy.
“I ended up deciding to take it out. So, I’m now three months since the operation, had the prostate out,” Kenny added. “And I’m probably 95 per cent back to normal, maybe 90 per cent back to normal.
“It’s hard when you’re told you’ve got cancer – and I’d literally fell over it, I didn’t see it coming, no symptoms whatsoever – I had to go looking for it.”
Speaking of her husband’s shock diagnosis, Gabby said: “I think that was the shocking thing for both of us that the day before he went in for his operation, I’m jumping forwards a bit, he’d done a bike session.
“He had no pain, he had no symptoms. And to go in and have surgery which is a really invasive surgery and it obviously takes a long to recover from you’re going to feel a lot worse after it. But very, very, very lucky.”
To which, Kenny agreed: “Extremely lucky.”
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men. In the UK, currently around 400,000 are living with the disease or have had it.
