Kenneth McKerrow Logan (born 3 April 1972) is a retired
Scottish rugby union
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player who played
wing
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for
Stirling County RFC and
Glasgow District at amateur level;
Glasgow Warriors
Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became t ...
,
Wasps RFC
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and
London Scottish at professional level; and
Scotland
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at international level. He won three
English Premierships with
Wasps RFC
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; and one Scottish Premiership title with
Stirling County RFC in 1995, just before the game turned professional.
Early life
Logan was born on 3 April 1972 in
Stirling
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, Scotland. As a schoolboy, Logan had
football trials as a
goalkeeper
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for
Dundee United
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and
Hearts. He left school at sixteen and began his rugby career with his hometown club
Stirling County, making his senior debut at 17.
Club career
Logan played for the amateur provincial side
Glasgow District. In
1996 the professional era began and the side became
Glasgow Rugby
Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became t ...
. He played for the newly professional team in the three matches of the
1996–97 Scottish Inter-District Championship
The 1996–97 Scottish Inter-District Championship rugby union Scottish Inter-District Championship was the first between the Scottish districts as professional teams.
Caledonia Reds won this first professional tournament. Indeed, it was the nor ...
as well as 2 matches in that season's European Challenge Cup, the European Conference.
As the Full Back named for Warriors first match as a professional team - against
Newbridge in the
European Challenge Cup
The EPCR Challenge Cup is an annual rugby union competition organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR). It is the second-tier competition for clubs based in European leagues behind the European Rugby Champions Cup. From its inception i ...
- Logan has the distinction of being given
Glasgow Warrior No. 15 for the provincial side.
In 1997, Logan joined
Wasps
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for his first season in English rugby. Logan was with Wasps for seven seasons. Whilst at Wasps he helped them win the
Anglo-Welsh Cup
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in 1999 and 2000; he was a replacement in the 1999 final but started and scored a try and a conversion in 2000. He also helped Wasps win the
2002–03 Premiership Final. In 2004, he re-signed for
Glasgow
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before joining
London Scottish after a season. He retired from playing in 2005.
International career
Logan played for Scotland A. Logan made his
Scotland
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debut in 1992 against
Australia at the age of 20. He was in and out of the side before cementing a position in the starting XV at the
1994 Five Nations Championship
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. He played in the
2003 World Cup. He won 70 caps over a 11-year period, scoring 20 tries in the process. He retired from international rugby union after the 2003 World Cup.
Personal life
Logan was diagnosed with
dyslexia as a child and found solace in playing sports. He attended
Wallace High School but left without sitting for his final exams.
Logan dated newsreader
Kirsty Young
Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November 1968) is a Scottish television and radio presenter.
From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''. She presented ''Crimewatch'' on BBC One from 2008 to 2015.
Early ...
and moved to London, before the couple separated in 1999 after three years. In July 2001 he married television presenter
Gabby Yorath. The couple live in
Kew
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, South West London.
After undergoing
IVF
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treatment they had twins, who were born on 28 July 2005.
Logan and his wife took part in the fifth series of the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...
''. Kenny was partnered with
. Logan ended in 5th place. Gabby finished in 12th place.
Logan and his wife are past presidents of the children's charity Sparks. In 2009, Logan and Sparks joined forces to organise an annual mass-participation event entitled Logan's Challenge.
In August 2014, Logan was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''
'' expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's
In 2022, Logan, at his wife's suggestion, had a wellman health check that unexpectedly revealed he was in the very early stages of prostate cancer and the medical diagnosis recommendation was to remove his entire prostate to prevent the further spread of cancer. The operation was successful.