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Gabby Logan has opened up to Lorraine Kelly about a health scare that affected hubby Kenny Logan and brought him into hospital.
Logan, 50, was speaking on Lorraine's ITV show about feeling so-called "empty nest syndrome" after her children are leaving home. She was also on the show to promote her podcast The Midpoint, which helps chronicle Gabby and Kenny's mid-life crises.
The broadcasting legend and former gymnast was also speaking to Lorraine about a health scare that engulfed the family last year. At her suggestion, Gabby's husband Kenny had a prostate exam that had shown something was not right.
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After doing some more tests, the rugby star was diagnosed as being in the early stages of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is one of the biggest killers of men in the UK, with 12,000 men dying of the disease every year.
"I was in my office, busy working on something and he said, 'I've just been listening to your interview with Davina [McCall] and she talked about how hormones drop off in women, your libido can drop. What might happen to me?'," Gabby recalled. She initially was frustrated with Kenny asking questions and referred him to Well Man to get checks done for his health.
"He did and they said, 'Don't worry about your hormones, but do worry about your PSA', which is to do with prostates and the number can represent the likelihood of developing prostate cancer. And, to cut a very long story short, a year and a half later – he was having a radical prostosectomy to remove the prostate," she said.
Following his diagnosis, the medical recommendation for him was to have his entire prostate removed. This was to stop the potentially cancerous cells from spreading any further.
Kenny went under the knife last year in order to treat the disease. The operation was successful and he was able to return to life as normal.
Gabby then recalled how "grateful" her husband was that he was urged to get checked as it meant he was able to discover he had the disease and it could be treated quickly. He has since made a full recovery.
"He was always very much, during that process, grateful that he'd listened to that podcast and thought about his health. He said to me afterwards, 'When I feel like I'm at the right time, I want to do a podcast about what we went through," she said.
Lorraine commended Kenny for his honesty, admitting that many men do not come forward about their health. Gabby quickly responded that he was very thankful to his wife for pointing him in the right direction, adding he spoke "candidly" about his experience on her podcast later on.
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