Gabby Logan has opened up about ‘waiting to feel grief’ amid significant family changes she recently experienced.
Speaking with HELLO! magazine, the BBC sports presenter shared how she has been adjusting to the shift in her home life. Gabby talked about life now that her daughter Lois ventured off to university in September, following her borther Reuben’s path into rugby.
It’s left her dealing with an empty nest syndrome – the feeling of an empty household after children move out.
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Explaining the impact it has had on her, she said: “I was waiting to feel more grief, so hopefully we’re finding a balance. Maybe I’m saying yes to things that I wouldn’t usually say yes to.
“It’s a slow and interesting change. It doesn’t feel dramatic, but I’m sure that when I look back in a year, I’ll realise that things have changed a lot.
“There are some nights when you’re on your own, and then it does feel a bit strange.”
Gabby has been open in the past about how the change in family dynamics has left her in tears.
During a festive edition of her Mid Point podcast, which featured her family, she recounted: “I was driving up the area we live in and there’s a grammar school near us and they obviously finished with a half day and the bus unloaded and all these boys with their black puffer jackets all got off, about 14, 15, and I found myself filling up a bit.”
With both of her children forging paths in the sports arena, Lois training as a showjumper at the University of Loughborough and Reuben representing Northampton Saints, Gabby shared her joy at witnessing their sporting successes from a distance. But she stressed her desire not to ride on their “coat-tails” or live “vicariously” while she supports them from the stands, reports Leeds Live.