“I think I had a rough ride in my early 30s in my career, and I can’t believe that’s nearly 20 years ago,” Logan revealed on the White Wine Question Time podcast. “At the time, I thought it was going to be the end of my career.
“I was leaving ITV and given another chance by the BBC… because even in my early 30s, I felt I’d already had this really long career and I’d done loads of great stuff. I’d been at Sky to start off with and went to ITV and did loads of brilliant things.”
“But I kind of felt I was maybe going to have to shift and do something completely different, because I had a boss that wasn’t really into me and wanted to slightly demote me. He took me off a World Cup in 2006.
“My kids were a year old and I was flying off to Germany, leaving my babies behind, going to the World Cup. [But] in the middle of the World Cup, he kind of sidelined me, and I came home with my tail between my legs.
“I was due to do so many knockout games and he said [not to come back] basically. Go home and don’t come back because I was due to go home for a few days.
“In between the end of the group stages and the knockout stages, there’s always a couple of days off and I was going to go home because it was only Germany and the kids were a year old.”
Logan subsequently departed ITV for another opportunity at the BBC, where she has remained ever since. Earlier this year, she was handed another historic role when appointed as one of three new presenters of Match of the Day.
The 52-year-old hosted her first programme this Premier League season and shares presenting duties with Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates. She expressed some relief after her debut passed without incident.
Logan said: “The weird thing is, of all the programmes I’ve ever done, that first moment where you say hello to the guests and you link into the first VT , there is kind of this shoulders down moment. You go, ‘Okay, we’re up and running and now it’s just a TV show.’
“That moment from when the titles are rolling, Match of the Day music, the music’s just finished and you’re saying hello to your guests – and no matter how many times you rehearse a link like that, just saying it without tripping up is always a triumph.”
