The Big Brother and Masked Singer presenter has reflected on the triumphs and tragedies of the past twelve months – and spoken honestly of her ‘difficult conversations’ with new husband Michael Douglas
The past twelve months of so have been a turbulent time for Davina McCall. Diagnosed with a colloid cyst, a rare type of benign brain tumour, in November last year she was then – almost exactly a year later – given the bombshell news that she was suffering from breast cancer.
While she was given immediate treatment for both conditions, and her overall prognosis is very positive, the TV presenter admitted to feeling a degree of anger about her health woes.
“It’s been a lot,” she told Woman’s Way magazine. “I was very angry when I found out. But I let go of that and I feel in a much more positive place now. I think my message is get checked if you’re worried. Check yourself regularly. If you are due a mammogram, then get it done.”
Davina added that, for her “life was never going to be the same again” but was choosing to see her harrowing year as a learning experience.
There was also a bright spot for Davina in 2025, as she married long-term partner Michael Douglas in a quiet ceremony earlier this month.
Davina revealed that she’d been forced to have some difficult conversations with Michael ahead of her brain surgery. She continued: “I said ‘Look, I’ve got to plan for if it doesn’t go according to plan’.
“There were a lot of things that could be a risk,” she added. “We had that talk quite soon and I did go and address my will and make sure that was airtight. I talked to Michael about my wishes – I wrote letters of wishes to the children and put those in my will.”
Davina shares three children with her ex-husband, Pet Rescue’s Matthew Robertson: Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18.
Stressing that she had complete faith in neurosurgeon Kevin O’Neill, who led the team that removed the cyst on he brain, Davina acknowledged that the outcome of the procedure could have been very different.
She explained: ”I was saying ‘I love you’ a lot and I was saying `I’ve had an amazing life’ to all of the kids.
“It was because I wanted them to know that if anything bad ever happened to me because look, we could get run over by a bus tomorrow, don’t feel sad. “I have had an amazing life, a life that you would want someone you love to have. It’s had its ups and downs; it’s been carnage, it’s been amazing, but it’s been mega.
Source: Mirror
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