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Gabby Logan and Dermot O’Leary have joked that she was given her MBE in 2020 for ‘services to breastfeeding’ after giving advice to both Queen Elizabeth II and Camilla, Queen Consort.
The presenter and former gymnast recalled the separate conversations she had had with the two Royals over the years while on This Morning on Monday, who were both fascinated with how she had managed to breastfeed twins at the same time.
In July 2005, Gabby gave birth to son Reuben and daughter Lois after undergoing IVF treatment with her husband, former rugby star Kenny Logan.
Shortly after giving birth, Gabby met the Queen at ITV’s 50th birthday gala dinner at the Guildhall in London.
Explaining that the late monarch went ‘off-piste’ with her questions and knew she had recently had her children, she recalled that the Queen had asked: ‘How does one breastfeed twins?’
‘So I started explaining the rugby ball hold, and I was like, “Wow, that was bizarre,”’ she added.
Gabby meeting the Queen and being quizzed on breastfeeding in October 2005 (Picture: Anwar Hussein Collection/Getty Images)
The TV star joked that Camilla could have asked her mother-in-law for the answer when she asked the same question later (Picture: ITV)
‘Cue about five years later I’m at Highgrove as a Prince’s Trust ambassador ad Camilla wonders over – her daughter’s having twins, same hospital, same gynaecologist, so we had a lot of similarities. And then she went, “How do you breastfeed twins?”
‘And I was thinking, “Ask your mother-in-law!” So I gave her the advice.’
Co-host Alison Hammond then chimed in with the fact that she been awarded an MBE, to which Gabby joked: ‘Not for breastfeeding.’
Dermot then quipped: ‘It says services to breastfeeding here’, as all three cracked up.
Gabby was promoting her memoir, The First Half, which was published on Thursday.
The late Queen with Camilla, now Queen Consort, and the new Princess of Wales at a reception in 2021 (Picture: Reuters)
She has previously revealed how joining the TV industry led to a ‘self-destructive’ lifestyle.
She explained: ‘There was a bit of self-destruct. I wasn’t abusing drugs [and] I wasn’t worried about becoming an alcoholic, but I didn’t treat myself very well.’
Gabby added to the Radio Times: ‘I wasn’t in positive relationship.’
Now married to ex Scottish rugby union player Kenny, the couple navigated his prostate cancer diagnosis together earlier this year after he urged him to get checked.
On BBC Breakfast in September, he said he had undergone surgery to have his prostate removed and that he is ‘90% back to normal’ and had had ‘no symptoms whatsoever.’
Gabby said on the show: ‘I think that was the shocking thing for both of us. The day before he went in for his operation…he’d done a bike session, he had no pain, he had no symptoms, and to go in and have surgery – it’s a really invasive surgery and it obviously takes a long time to recover from, you’re gonna feel a lot worse after it!
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‘But [we’re] very, very lucky.’
‘Extremely lucky,’ Kenny agreed.
This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.
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Both women asked her the same question at separate events.