Kenny Logan tells of wild life with two celebrity lovers

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KENNY Logan is the hunky rugby star who became a surprise hit on TV's Strictly Come Dancing. And now he's about to wow millions more with his sensational autobiography Just For Kicks.

In our exclusive extracts, adapted by DOUGLAS WIGHT, Kenny reveals how he charmed two of the small screen's fantasy girls into bed, news presenter KIRSTY YOUNG and sports favourite GABBY YORATH, now his wife.

KIRSTY YOUNG KISSED ME AND SLOWLY UNDID MY SHIRT..

RUGBY wild man Kenny Logan was shocked when high-powered TV news girl Kirsty Young asked HIM on a date . . . to HER PLACE.

YOUNG LOVE: Kirsty feared fling attracting publicity so banned Kenny parking outside

But he was gobsmacked when he got there - after a few drinks the top news presenter just couldn't wait to get up close and personal.

"It was 3am and that awkward stage at the end of a first date," says Kenny. "It had gone well but I didn't really know what to do. I gave her a little kiss on the cheek and one on the lips.

"Then SHE put her arms round ME and soon we were kissing properly.

"Five minutes later she was unbuttoning my shirt. . ."

But stunned sporting legend Kenny had been warned what was on the cards - by his knowing pal Gareth, nicknamed Jumbo.

He was there when Kenny's phone first rang and that distinctive husky voice purred down the line "Hi! it's Kirsty."

The blonde newsreader and the international rugby star had hit it off days earlier at a pub in their native Stirling, in Scotland. Now she was inviting him to join her at her Glasgow pad.

Eager Kenny was about to dash straight round in his T-shirt until Jumbo intervened: "You're not wearing THAT . . . you've got to wear a shirt. She's gonna want to unbutton it and see your body. Guaranteed. She canna unbutton your T-shirt. . . trust me." And he was right, as Kenny told Jumbo after calling to get a lift home at 3am.

As the romance took off, cautious Kirsty demanded they meet at her place. She was paranoid after a string of failed high-profile flings and wanted to avoid attention.

But Kenny hadn't quite twigged it. He says: "I turned up for our second date in my sponsored car with my name plastered all over it. Kirsty took one look and said, 'You can't park that here!'

"So I had to leave it about 500 yards away and walk. I went through the same charade every time.

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"But we had a great laugh together. If we had to be secretive, so be it. We found plenty of ways to amuse ourselves at her place. . . "

One night Kenny coaxed Kirsty back to his family farm on the outskirts of Stirling, along with Jumbo and one of the newsgirl's friends. "It looked as if it was going to be a spectacular sunrise," recalls Kenny. "So we decided to take my car and a bottle of champagne and go to sit in a field where the grass was about a foot long.

"The sky was a lovely red by now, the view was lovely, we drank bubbly and had the music going. It was perfect.

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"Then Kirsty said she needed the toilet, so I told her to take the car down to the bottom corner of the field. I don't know what got into her, but by the time she got there she was going so fast she couldn't stop. She smashed through the fence and carried on into a field of barley.

"She left a perfect strip of flattened crop in her wake. The car was torn to shreds by the barbed wire, and the top of the windscreen had taken the impact of one of the posts. It might easily have killed her if it had struck a bit lower."

Kirsty survived unscathed but was still terrified of publicity. So Jumbo drove the car to a friend's place to hide the evidence and Kenny kept mum - until a farmer tending sheep in the next field told him he had seen everything! The player begged him not to tell anyone - and they managed to pull the wool over the media's eyes.

After a year, Kenny joined Kirsty when her career took off and she moved to London. Within a week of him clinching a big-money professional contract with top London side Wasps, alongside Lawrence Dallaglio, Kirsty became the face of Channel 5 news, famously perched on the end of a desk.

But as he started to live the high life with new-found buddies, cracks started to appear in their romance.

"My exciting new lifestyle with Wasps wasn't great for relationship building," admits Kenny, "although I will always be grateful to Kirsty for making me go to London.

"She was living in a flat in Earls Court, which served as my base.

"I'd turn up on Thursday, go to training and return in the dead of night after an evening out with the boys. That kind of thing wasn't her scene at all." Career-driven Kirsty was never comfortable with the wild partying of the rugby scene. And the final straw came when Kenny staggered home drunk following a typical rowdy night out.

By then they had got a house together. A team- mate was supposed to be staying over that nightbut got locked out. So after banging on the door the 20 stone, 6ft 8ins hulk showed his disgust by wrenching a concrete bollard out of the pavement and leaving it on the doorstep for Kirsty to trip over next morning as she left for work at 5am.

And there was another shock in store. Kenny confesses: "Apparently I got up in the middle of the night and p***ed on Kirsty's clothes. That was a new low in my life. Kirsty wasn't pleased. We'd reached breaking point."

The relationship that started with fireworks had turned into a damp squib.

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MOMENT I FEARED GABBY WAS DYING

IT should have been the happiest day of Kenny Logan's life. But heart-stopping trauma followed by drunken shame turned the birth of his twin babies into a high drama.

Kenny and wife Gabby had been overjoyed when she fell pregnant through IVF after years of worrying they might never have children.

GABBY'S BABBIES: Proud Logans cradle Reuben & Lois

But problems started when doctors ordered a Caesarean following 24 hours of fruitless labour. Then, within moments, the babies were coming naturally after all.

First Reuben was born at 11.40pm on July 28, 2005. But as Kenny proudly introduced him to Gabby's family outside, there were problems with the second twin. She was in the breech position - coming out feet first - and her heartbeat was racing.

Kenny says: "The doctor literally reached in and grabbed her by the legs." And just four minutes before midnight Lois was born.

But although the twins were both healthy, suddenly it was Gabby in trouble. "The doctor called out for assistance," says Kenny.

"There was chaos. Blood was pumping out of Gabby like a hosepipe. They couldn't stop it."

As the doctor shouted for an urgent tranfusion Kenny began fearing for Gabby's life.

"I took her hand but she was drifting away," he says. "I looked at her and then at these two tiny babies, then back at her. Panic was rising in me, panic and confusion.

"There was blood everywhere. The floor was covered in it. Gabby's family saw her being rushed to the operating theatre on a trolley covered in blood, the wheels leaving red tracks as they went. There was more panic."

NICE PASS! Kenny goes for touchdown on hols with Gabby

Minutes later though, things were under control. The transfusion worked and Gabby started to come round. Kenny says: "She was confused. But I leant down and said, 'We've got two kids. They're fine. And now they're just finishing off your designer vagina!' We laughed, and the babies were rolled in, bawling their eyes out."

Despite the drama, Gabby agreed Kenny should wet the babies' heads. So he called a few pals, including footballer Jamie Redknapp, and hit the beer, vodkas and champagne in London's West End, finishing up at the Dorchester.

"By 3am I was all over the place," says Kenny. "I threw up in the lift and Jamie took me back to his place. When I woke up about 11 I felt awful."

Kenny went downstairs to face a stern talking-to from Jamie's pop star wife Louise. She told him: "Don't you think you should be at hospital with Gabby? You're a disgrace!" Kenny soon found worried Gabby had been trying to reach him. On top of that he had to pick up his mum from Heathrow Airport - and suffer another dressing-down. Kenny admits telly sports presenter Gabby is his perfect wife. "I don't ever have to feel guilty about watching sport on TV!" he jokes.

And he recalls how cheek got him into her house, and her bed, on their very first date. Gabby had just bought the place and showed Kenny around, including a huge waterbed left by previous owners. "Then Gabby jumped on it," says Kenny. "Well, that was an invitation if ever there was one. So I jumped on, too. But when I hit the bed, she flew off. I rushed over to help and then came the moment, a pause, and I kissed her.

"But after all the usual is-it-a- good-idea stuff we slept together fully clothed - in her PROPER bed!"

EXTRACTED from Just For Kicks by Kenny Logan, to be published by Headline on September 3 at £18.99, © Kenny Logan, 2009. To buy it for just £16.19 (with free P&P) call 0845 271 2137 or visit notwbookshop.co.uk

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