GABBY V KIRSTY; EXCLUSIVE: I got your man, now I'm after your job.TV SOCCER glamour girl Gabby gab·by adj. gab·bi·er, gab·bi·est Slang Tending to talk excessively; garrulous. gab  bi·ness n. Yorath is set to go head-to-head head-to-headadv. & adj. 1. In direct confrontation or conflict at close quarters: The two brothers went at it head-to-head. It was a head-to-head contest all the way. 2. in the news game with ITN's brightest star, Kirsty Young Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November, 1968 in East Kilbride) is a Scottish television journalist, presenter, actress and radio presenter. She has recently left her position as head newsreader on Five News, the news programme on British television channel Five, where she had . Award-winning presenter Gabby, 27, wants to move into Kirsty's territory by fronting her own news programme. And it won't be the first time the two glamour girls have been in competition. Gabby has just announced she will marry Scotland rugby star Kenny Logan Kenneth McKerrow Logan (born 3 April 1972 in Stirling) is a rugby union footballer who plays wing for London Scottish and formerly Scotland. As a schoolboy Logan had soccer trials as a goalkeeper for Dundee United and Hearts. - a former boyfriend of Kirsty. The ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). golden girl will sit a screen test to see if she can be as successful handling news stories as she is hosting sports pro-grammes. Gabby is hoping to develop a more "serious side" to her career. And ITV are so convinced she is going to be one of their biggest assets, they have torn up her existing contract and given her a new three-year "golden handcuffs Golden Handcuffs An incentive given to existing employees in hopes that they will decide to stay with the company. Notes: Employee stock options are an example of golden handcuffs. " deal. They will also ensure Gabby looks her very best on screen by giving her a generous pounds 5,000-a-year clothing allowance. For the next year, Gabby will pocket pounds 122,500. Next August her salary will rise to pounds 145,000. And from August 2002 she will be paid pounds 167,500 a year. "Gabby is worth every penny to ITV," said a TV source, "because she's got a great attitude and the viewers love her. "She appeals to blokes, who see a very attractive woman with an impressive knowledge of sport, and to women, because they feel that she's on their side in what has traditionally been an all-male environment. "Now Gabby has proven herself she can go on to a lot more things other than sport. "She's extremely intelligent and talented and would have no problems dealing with a hard news agenda." Gabby is considered as bright a prospect as newscaster Kirsty, 31, who, The Mirror last week revealed, wants a top-up to her pounds 165,000 salary because she works more shifts reading ITN ITN n abbr (Brit) (= Independent Television News) → chaîne de télévision commerciale ITN (Brit) n abbr (TV) (= Independent Television News) → news than is laid down in her contract. |
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