BBC presenter Gabby Logan has opened up about her daughter Lois’s newest milestone – heading off to college.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the broadcaster shared a beaming picture of the mother-daughter duo posing in Lois’s new college room. Gabby, 51, appeared her regular fashionable self wearing a ruffled denim shirt and examine trousers whereas Lois dressed down in a pair of light-wash denims and a blazing purple jumper.

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In her caption, Gabby shared a glimpse inside her daughter’s emotional milestone, detailing the “great emotion” and the way she additionally shed “a number of tears”.

“So as we speak was the day. And to all of you but to drop off at College I’m not going to fake it’s a breeze,” she advised her followers.

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“It is a day stuffed with great emotion, a number of tears and plenty of laughter with the tip of 1 facet of our roles, however the starting of a brand new relationship the place we mother and father need to shift our innate need to guard and guard and permit our youngsters to make use of the wings we have now helped to nurture.”

She continued: “The joy round campus was tangible, and understanding the adventures which can be to come back and the friendships that shall be solid, made driving away slightly bit simpler.

The mother-of-two completed by including: “I’m fairly positive nevertheless that we’ll miss these children we have now dropped off over the previous couple of weeks greater than they are going to miss us and that’s the way in which it needs to be.”

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Gabby shares twins Lois and Reuben together with her husband Kenny Logan. The couple tied the knot in 2001, earlier than welcoming their two kids in 2005.

The previous gymnast beforehand spoke about turning into an empty nester throughout an interview with The Telegraph.

“It is laborious, actually laborious!” she defined. “Reuben has simply gone again to [rugby] pre-season. He creates loads for one individual. I opened the fridge the opposite day and it abruptly appeared tiny… I recognised its contents. However we miss him, his noise and chaos.”

“Lois shall be gone completely in September,” she stated of her daughter, who will research at Loughborough. “I got here again from work just lately and I assumed: ‘That is the longer term – I do not know if I can dwell in a home this quiet’. It is a huge step change. [But] I’ve received to embrace it.”

She went on to say: “When you’ve children, you need them to fly, have their very own lives and be impartial.”