The First Half

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Property expert and broadcaster, Sarah Beeny, chats with Gabby this week about the opportunities that you can unlock in midlife, the joy of being a groupie mum, and the breast cancer diagnosis which she refuses to let define her. Gabby Logan has revealed she was subjected to a sexual jibe, that alluded to the amount of people she'd slept with, while working at Sky Sports.

Michael Johnson, had obviously seen something I was doing on social media and said “Gabby I don’t understand why you let a guy with four followers engage with your half million Twitter followers. Keys and Gray are now football presenters for beIN Sports, a global network of sports channels owned and operated by the Qatari media group beIN. Now at 46 years old, we find out what she’s learned en route to the midpoint and how she balances work with being mother to three children under six years old!

Being ‘middle aged and beige’ is something Logan addressed in her podcast Midlife and it’s not something she’s ever likely to be accused of being in ‘The Second Half’. Sport does weave its way through big turning points, but actually what became more apparent as I started writing was that it was about owning up to mistakes and not projecting a perfect life.

Logan was wise to that, but knew it was an excellent place to hone her skills at that stage of her career as Sky attempted to appease her. Chelsea star names WWE legend John Cena as the celebrity he'd want to portray him in a movie - but can YOU guess which unlikely Blues player it is? While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Anyone who has watched Logan host live sport with its unpredictabilites will know she’s good under pressure and as a former athlete, in good physical shape, so a reality TV show like BBC’s Freeze the Fear with ‘The Iceman’ Wim Hof would seem a good fit, but she could never have predicted how it would put her in touch with her more vulnerable side.Ed also discusses what raising a young family within the world of politics was like, the new podcast he's cohosting Political Currency, and Gabby gets his thoughts on how middle-aged women in particular could have a huge say in the next General Election. Many GPs and health professionals have received no formal training around perimenopause and menopause.