Gabby Logan to host Channel 5 chat show

Gabby Logan to host Channel 5 chat show
Gabby Logan to host Channel 5 chat show (Image credit: BBC)

Gabby Logan has landed a new discussion show for Channel 5. The BBC sport host is to front a new spin-off of C5's popular morning series The Wright Stuff each morning, from June 27. She will be joined each weekday by experts to discuss topical issues in front of a live studio audience. The Wright Stuff Extra with Gabby Logan will be filmed in the same studio as the main show. Gabby will continue with her BBC TV sporting roles, although she stepped down as a presenter for Radio 5 Live earlier this year. The Wright Stuff has been presented by Matthew Wright for more than a decade. She said: "I am really looking forward to joining the team at Channel 5 and excited to be hosting a live show where anything can happen. "The Wright Stuff is a daytime TV institution and I can't wait to continue the conversations every weekday morning." Andrew O'Connell, Channel 5's head of factual, news and current affairs, said: "Her vast experience will undoubtedly contribute to intelligent and lively debate on the show and I know Gabby is someone that our audience will be drawn to watch." * The Wright Stuff Extra with Gabby Logan will broadcast each day at 11.10am.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.