Gabby Logan can't contain her excitement about the Olympics next year
Gabby Logan tells us how she keeps her family green, her new TV show, The Wright Stuff Extra and how excited she is for the upcoming Olympics.
Tell us what this Future Friendly campaign is all all about?
It's about sustainability, and doing small things that can make a big difference and little acts which can hopefully help us all to save energy, save water, reduce energy. That kind of thing.
It's basically about people who are promoting Green Living in their area they live, this can be individuals or groups, and then on the website (futurefriendly.co.uk) as well there are lots of tips for people like you and me, who want to do better and want to do more but you know find it difficult sometimes in your life to incorporate enviornmentally friendly ways of living into your life.
When I first started to get interested in this area, I did panic a bit. I was think, Oh God I have to use my car sometimes and I have to fly sometimes - you know, all those things that you know are doing the planet not very much good. But I think we live in a very difficult time, we didn't live through the Industrial Revolution, when a lot of damage was done. We're much more educated about these things now and our lives have moved and gone at such a quick pace. So, it's about using products that are more efficient. So you can use products that use less water, you can use products so you don't have to wash at such high temperatures, so those kinds of things which are small and yet can make a difference in what you're contributing to the efforts to help the environment.
What things do you do to make you and your family more sustainable?
Since I've had kids I've probably become more focused on this because I want my kids to grow up recycling and doing things that are more sustainable. We walk to school, we cycle to school, we don't drive to school and they sometimes moan about that but we've had a chat about why it's important and they're six now, so hopefully they'll take it through their lives with them.
We do a lot of recycling, like a lot of people, I incorporated seperate bins in my kitchen. We have three different bins so that everything gets recycled, we have a kind of tank, under the garden which collects rain water and you use it for the plants. We use energy saving bulbs, so it's little things. Not major, we haven't got round to the heating or anything like that, which we looked into. I mean when you live in cities it's quite difficult. When you live in the country you can grow your own food, and all of those kind of things, and you can be quite self-sufficient but when you live in a city it can sometimes be quite difficult to accomodate those things in your life. 
You've also just launched your new show, The Wright Stuff Extra - do you want to tell us what it's about?
It's a mix of a real-life guest everyday, who usually does something quite inspiring, or it could be though provoking or it could be someone who has got something quite controversial to say, but they're real-life people as opposed to celebrities. Unless it's also someone famous who is doing something quite different, for example, Michelle Heaton was on the other day and she was there to raise awareness of how diet pills gave her a heart problem. So she wasn't on to talk about Michelle Heaton, being Michelle Heaton it was an issue away from that. We have an expert everyday who has an open clinic at the end, tomorrow it's a medical doctor, today it was a vet, yesterday it was a life coach - it's different kinds of experts, and the clinics have been really popular, I mean people ring up with all kinds of problems. But at the top of the show they talk about things that are in the news to do with their topics. So it's a mixture of the experts, the guests and then a VT, which Kirsty - who does the phones for Matthew Wright - she goes out and interviews somebody about something that's bugging them, something they're passionate about or something that they really want to raise awareness about.
The kids have now broken up from school, have you got any tips on how to keep them interested?
Well, we've had a few weeks off so far and it is a challenge I have to say. And it can be really expensive as well, you know. So I love the days when my son says I just want to stay at home and chill-out in the garden and that. I'm like, 'yeah!', because that obviously costs nothing. 
But we've got lots of good parks near us, we do lots of swimming and sport, going to do tennis. You know, just loads of things to keep them active. But I have to say it is tough. They're going to be doing lots of different courses, things like going to Stage Coach through the year. So they're going there for a week. But that adds up if you start going to courses every week.
The other day, we done seven jigsaw puzzles. My son got them and and said: 'There is seven jigsaw puzzles in this box.' And somebody has messed them all up so they weren't in the right bags, so I was like, 'Right we're going to do all seven of these and put them back in their right bags'. And actually I don't know who got more out of it, me or him. But I really liked it and I thought that's a really good, cheap afternoon. My daughter had been at a playdate and she came home and was a bit jealous that me and Reuben had been doing these jigsaw puzzles, so I though 'good, we can do jigsaw puzzles next week when he's at a playdate.'
We have less than 12 months to go now with the Olympics, how are you feeling about that.
I am beyond excited about that, actually. I just love the Olympics, I grew up as such a huge Olympic fan. I was 11 years old when I watched the 84 Olympics in LA and I videoed everything and I watched it back-on-back, it was when I was a gymnast and I loved the gymnastics.
I just can't express how brilliant it's going to be, for anyone who's slightly skeptical or cynical about it. It will be an amazing experience for this country and I'm just really glad that my kids are of an age where they can really appreciate it, because they'll be seven by then and I was seven when the Moscow Olympics where on and I just about remember that so hopefully our kids will take a lot out of this and lead more healthier and sportier lives in the future I think.
TV presenter and green mum Gabby Logan is supporting this year’s Future Friendly campaign. Visit www.futurefriendly.co.uk for more information.
Femalefirst Taryn Davies
Gabby Logan tells us how she keeps her family green, her new TV show, The Wright Stuff Extra and how excited she is for the upcoming Olympics.
You can be quite self-sufficient but when you live in a city it can sometimes be quite difficult to accomodate those things in your life
Tell us what this Future Friendly campaign is all all about?
It's about sustainability, and doing small things that can make a big difference and little acts which can hopefully help us all to save energy, save water, reduce energy. That kind of thing.
It's basically about people who are promoting Green Living in their area they live, this can be individuals or groups, and then on the website (futurefriendly.co.uk) as well there are lots of tips for people like you and me, who want to do better and want to do more but you know find it difficult sometimes in your life to incorporate enviornmentally friendly ways of living into your life.
When I first started to get interested in this area, I did panic a bit. I was think, Oh God I have to use my car sometimes and I have to fly sometimes - you know, all those things that you know are doing the planet not very much good. But I think we live in a very difficult time, we didn't live through the Industrial Revolution, when a lot of damage was done. We're much more educated about these things now and our lives have moved and gone at such a quick pace. So, it's about using products that are more efficient. So you can use products that use less water, you can use products so you don't have to wash at such high temperatures, so those kinds of things which are small and yet can make a difference in what you're contributing to the efforts to help the environment.
What things do you do to make you and your family more sustainable?
Since I've had kids I've probably become more focused on this because I want my kids to grow up recycling and doing things that are more sustainable. We walk to school, we cycle to school, we don't drive to school and they sometimes moan about that but we've had a chat about why it's important and they're six now, so hopefully they'll take it through their lives with them.
We do a lot of recycling, like a lot of people, I incorporated seperate bins in my kitchen. We have three different bins so that everything gets recycled, we have a kind of tank, under the garden which collects rain water and you use it for the plants. We use energy saving bulbs, so it's little things. Not major, we haven't got round to the heating or anything like that, which we looked into. I mean when you live in cities it's quite difficult. When you live in the country you can grow your own food, and all of those kind of things, and you can be quite self-sufficient but when you live in a city it can sometimes be quite difficult to accomodate those things in your life.
You've also just launched your new show, The Wright Stuff Extra - do you want to tell us what it's about?
It's a mix of a real-life guest everyday, who usually does something quite inspiring, or it could be though provoking or it could be someone who has got something quite controversial to say, but they're real-life people as opposed to celebrities. Unless it's also someone famous who is doing something quite different, for example, Michelle Heaton was on the other day and she was there to raise awareness of how diet pills gave her a heart problem. So she wasn't on to talk about Michelle Heaton, being Michelle Heaton it was an issue away from that. We have an expert everyday who has an open clinic at the end, tomorrow it's a medical doctor, today it was a vet, yesterday it was a life coach - it's different kinds of experts, and the clinics have been really popular, I mean people ring up with all kinds of problems. But at the top of the show they talk about things that are in the news to do with their topics. So it's a mixture of the experts, the guests and then a VT, which Kirsty - who does the phones for Matthew Wright - she goes out and interviews somebody about something that's bugging them, something they're passionate about or something that they really want to raise awareness about.
The kids have now broken up from school, have you got any tips on how to keep them interested?
Well, we've had a few weeks off so far and it is a challenge I have to say. And it can be really expensive as well, you know. So I love the days when my son says I just want to stay at home and chill-out in the garden and that. I'm like, 'yeah!', because that obviously costs nothing.
But we've got lots of good parks near us, we do lots of swimming and sport, going to do tennis. You know, just loads of things to keep them active. But I have to say it is tough. They're going to be doing lots of different courses, things like going to Stage Coach through the year. So they're going there for a week. But that adds up if you start going to courses every week.
The other day, we done seven jigsaw puzzles. My son got them and and said: 'There is seven jigsaw puzzles in this box.' And somebody has messed them all up so they weren't in the right bags, so I was like, 'Right we're going to do all seven of these and put them back in their right bags'. And actually I don't know who got more out of it, me or him. But I really liked it and I thought that's a really good, cheap afternoon. My daughter had been at a playdate and she came home and was a bit jealous that me and Reuben had been doing these jigsaw puzzles, so I though 'good, we can do jigsaw puzzles next week when he's at a playdate.'
We have less than 12 months to go now with the Olympics, how are you feeling about that.
I am beyond excited about that, actually. I just love the Olympics, I grew up as such a huge Olympic fan. I was 11 years old when I watched the 84 Olympics in LA and I videoed everything and I watched it back-on-back, it was when I was a gymnast and I loved the gymnastics.
I just can't express how brilliant it's going to be, for anyone who's slightly skeptical or cynical about it. It will be an amazing experience for this country and I'm just really glad that my kids are of an age where they can really appreciate it, because they'll be seven by then and I was seven when the Moscow Olympics where on and I just about remember that so hopefully our kids will take a lot out of this and lead more healthier and sportier lives in the future I think.
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