Gabby Logan has revealed that she was taken off World Cup duties by a former boss who “sidelined” her.
The 51-year-old sports activities presenter has hosted every little thing from the Olympics and FIFA World Cups to the UEFA Euros and Girls’s World Cup. She was lately introduced as one of many faces of Match of the Day following information of Gary Lineker’s departure final 12 months.
However the veteran presenter, who has been within the sports activities presenting enterprise for many years, mentioned there was a time when she thought it will all be over.
“I feel I had a tough experience in my early 30s in my profession, and I can not consider that is practically 20 years in the past,” she advised the White Wine Question Time podcast. “On the time, I assumed it was going to be the tip of my profession.”
She defined: “I used to be leaving ITV and given one other probability by the BBC… as a result of even in my early 30s, I felt I might already had this actually lengthy profession and I might finished a great deal of nice stuff. I might been at Sky to begin off with and went to ITV and did a great deal of sensible issues.”
Logan continued: “However I type of felt I used to be perhaps going to need to shift and do one thing utterly completely different, as a result of I had a boss that wasn’t actually into me and needed to barely demote me. He took me off a World Cup in 2006.”
The transfer got here in the midst of the match whereas the star was nonetheless overseas, when her youngsters have been round one-years-old.
Logan continued: “My youngsters have been a 12 months previous and I used to be flying off to Germany, leaving my infants behind, going to the World Cup. [But] in the midst of the World Cup, he type of sidelined me, and I got here dwelling with my tail between my legs.”
After being despatched again from Germany, the host was advised to not come again.
“I used to be due to take action many knockout video games and he mentioned [not to come back] mainly. Go dwelling and do not come again as a result of I used to be resulting from go dwelling for just a few days. In between the tip of the group phases and the knockout phases, there’s all the time a few days off and I used to be going to go dwelling as a result of it was solely Germany and the children have been a 12 months previous.”
The presenter then left ITV for a “second probability” on the BBC.
The Unbiased has contacted ITV for remark.
