Davina McCall is recovering but 'utterly exhausted' after brain tumour surgery

The TV presenter, 57, said the benign encephalon tumour, known arsenic a colloid cyst, was recovered aft she was offered a wellness check-up arsenic portion of her menopause advocacy work.

“Davina is retired of country and according to the surgeon it was textbook,” helium wrote.

“She’s presently recovering successful ICU arsenic a precaution, arsenic you tin ideate she’s utterly exhausted.

“Thanks truthful overmuch for each the emotion from everyone connected here.. it’s almighty stuff, we are ace grateful.”

It comes aft McCall shared a video connected Instagram, revealing her diagnosis.

She said: “I’m posting this. It volition beryllium Friday morning, and I’m doing it due to the fact that a fewer months ago, I did a menopause speech for a company, and they offered maine a wellness scan successful return, which I thought I was going to ace, but it turned retired I had a benign encephalon tumour called a colloid cyst, which is precise rare, 3 successful a million.

“And truthful I somewhat enactment my caput successful the soil for a while, and past I saw rather a fewer neurosurgeons. I got tons of opinions, and I realised that I person to get it taken out.”

McCall described it arsenic a “big” tumour, 14mm wide, adding: “It needs to travel out, due to the fact that if it grows, it would beryllium bad.”

She said she was having it removed done a craniotomy, a surgical process to temporarily region portion of the skull, and said she is successful “good spirits”.

“I’m going to beryllium successful infirmary for astir 9 days, and past I’m going to beryllium going home, but I’m going to beryllium disconnected my telephone for a while,” McCall said.

“But I don’t privation you to interest astir me. I’m doing that capable arsenic it is.

“I americium successful a bully space, and I person each the religion successful the satellite successful my surgeon and his team, and I americium handing the reins implicit to him. He knows what he’s doing.”

According to the NHS, non-cancerous encephalon tumours are much communal successful radical implicit the property of 50, and symptoms see headaches, blackouts, behavioural changes and nonaccomplishment of consciousness.

In a connection to her account, Douglas said she volition beryllium “off grid for a bit”, portion she recovers.

He added: “She is successful large signifier and successful precise bully hands. I’ll I bash the unusual update from her relationship present for anyone interested.

“I’m definite she’ll work each the comments erstwhile she’s capable to truthful consciousness escaped to nonstop love. The enactment of radical is amazingly powerful. Have a large time everyone. Michael xxx.”

The erstwhile Big Brother host, who presently presents ITV dating amusement My Mum, Your Dad, has agelong advocated connected women’s wellness issues, and presented documentaries connected contraception and the menopause.

Last year, she became an MBE successful the King’s day honours for services to broadcasting, and successful 2022 released the publication Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap To Your Second Spring, with the purpose of ending “the shame and horrific misinformation surrounding menopause”.

That aforesaid year, she fronted the Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Mind And The Menopause, and told the BBC that the perimenopausal symptoms caused her difficulties multi-tasking and she considered that she had a encephalon tumour oregon Alzheimer’s illness astatine the time, arsenic her begetter Andrew suffers from the second condition.

The TV star, who started going done perimenopause astatine 44, besides said the symptoms reminded her of erstwhile she was a cause addict successful her 20s owed to waking up soaked successful sweat.

She has besides spoken astir taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to alleviate immoderate of the symptoms, antecedently telling ITV’s Loose Women: “The wellness benefits for maine mode outweighed the negatives. I’ve got dementia moving successful my family, it massively reduces that, reduces diabetes and it reduces the hazard of bosom illness by 50%.”

Earlier this year, the presenter was honoured with the peculiar designation grant astatine the National Television Awards for her broadcasting vocation and received an honorary grade from Newcastle University for championing women’s health.

McCall has besides raised wealth for Cancer Research UK by moving for Race For Life successful honour of her precocious sister.

Her sister Caroline Baday died from lung crab successful 2012 astatine the property of 50.

McCall made her sanction connected Big Brother betwixt 2000 and 2010 during its Channel 4 run, and has gone connected to co-present BBC Comic Relief and Sport Relief, Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer, The Million Pound Drop and Long Lost Family, and voiced a robot mentation of herself successful Doctor Who.

The TV prima besides regularly posts astir exercising and wellness products and has released galore fittingness DVDs.