The jet fell 3,000ft. My son thought we’d all die

BBC SPORT host Gabby Logan, 44, is married to former Scottish rugby international Kenny Logan with whom she has twins. She is currently presenting coverage of the Commonwealth Games.

Romance changes as you get

older. On our first Christmas together, Kenny knew I wanted to learn to play the guitar. He put roses all the way down the stairs, at the end of which was a black Yahama guitar. Now ‘romance’ is a salad and a chilled glass of wine on the table when I get home. But these little things keep romance alive in a relationship.

You can meet your heroes. I got properly starstruck meeting Eric Cantona. I bumped into him having lunch with his wife and children in a restaurant in Provence. I went up and, embarrassingly, the only thing I could think of to say was: ‘I’m from Leeds.’ He shook his head and shook my hand and that was enough for me. I was happy with that.

No one is super human. I am having my first-ever operation in May. I cried when I was told it needed surgery after tearing a ligament skiing. I was upset because it involves a lot of rehab and I can’t exercise for ages. Usually, I work out four or five times a week. I was on a flight to South Africa that dropped 3,000 feet. There were smashed glasses everywhere, passengers were cut and bleeding. I was holding my son Reuben’s hand and Kenny was holding Lois’s. Reuben asked if we were going to die. The captain said it was the worst turbulence he’d had in 30 years. Don’t hold on to your regrets. I wanted to be a professional tennis player – I adored Steffi Graf. But it didn’t happen and I don’t believe in holding on to it. You can’t pick your own nickname. I tried to give myself one when I came back from school in Canada. My best friend in Canada’s name was Pud and I loved it, so I told the girls in my class that my nickname was Cheesy. Unsurprisingly, no one believed me. I instead get called things like Gabbarooney.