From hairstylist to lover – Inside Davina McCall’s relationship with boyfriend Michael Douglas

TV legend Davina McCall has precocious opened up astir her diagnosis with a precise uncommon encephalon condition.

The former Big Brother presenter, 57, revealed she is having country to region 14mm wide encephalon tumour.

She said successful a video connected her Instagram that she was 1 of the 3 successful a cardinal who had been diagnosed with having a ‘very rare’ colloid cyst.

Colloid cysts are benign, meaning they are non-cancerous, tiny fluid-filled sacs located successful oregon astir the lateral and 3rd ventricle of the brain, according to the London Neurosurgery Partnership.

Davina said she consulted with respective neurosurgeons and aft ‘lots of opinions’ decided to person the tumour removed due to the fact that it is ‘big for the space’ successful her encephalon and ‘if it grows it volition beryllium bad’.

The Masked Singer justice was joined successful the video by her spouse of five-years, celebrity hairdresser Michael Douglas, who said helium would support fans updated connected her health.

He besides made respective jokes passim the video, keeping Davina’s spirits up up of the scary operation.

It was wide from the mode the brace interacted successful the video that Michael is simply a large enactment strategy for Davina successful this hard time, starring fans to erstwhile again bespeak connected the pair’s charming emotion story.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Davina McCall’s emotion life.

Who is Davina McCall dating?

Michael, 49, was Davina’s hairstylist but their transportation soon grew, with the brace announcing their romance backmost successful 2019 – 2 years aft her divided from hubby Matthew Robertson.

Davina and Michael had been friends for 20 years anterior to getting together, and mostly support quiescent astir their relationship.

Michael is the laminitis of hairsbreadth styling institution mdlondon and has been styling hairsbreadth for much than 35 years.

Davina said: ‘We’ve got an statement that I don’t speech astir our relationship, due to the fact that our exes and kids don’t person a close to reply, truthful it’s not fair.’

She besides said that keeping backstage astir their narration helps to support it ‘magic’.

She said: ‘I springiness truthful overmuch of myself to the nationalist that I request thing conscionable for me,’ she explained, saying ‘keeping my emotion beingness backstage …. keeps the magic.’

She insisted they’re not ‘purposefully trying to fell distant from anyone’ but ‘privacy keeps our narration peculiar to us.’

‘There’s thing beauteous astir it and that’s each it is. It keeps it truly magical and I similar that.’

Since going nationalist with their relationship, the mates person launched a podcast, Making The Cut, that aims to assistance radical marque the pugnacious decisions successful their life, whether that’s what to ticker connected TV that night, oregon wherever to spell connected holiday.

‘I emotion doing the podcast with him. It’s fundamentally an hold of what we’ve ever done arsenic friends, which is to urge things to each other,’ she revealed.

The mates present unrecorded unneurotic successful Kent, with 2 of Davina’s 3 children: Holly, 22, and Chester, 17. Her mediate daughter, Tilly, 20, moved to Australia past year.

Discussing their relationship, Davina said: ‘I americium rather enjoying being a caller mates doing caller things, due to the fact that we are recently surviving together.

‘It’s rather bully making caller traditions due to the fact that we did that earlier Christmas, we sat down unneurotic and talked astir it: ‘Ok, blank space, what shall we marque contented from present on?’

Davina shares her 3 children with her ex-husband Matthew Robertson, who she joined successful 2000, but past divorced successful 2017.

Speaking to The Sun, she revealed: ‘I person made galore mistakes successful my life’.

Confirming the divided astatine the time, she said: ‘I americium precise bittersweet to accidental Matthew and I person separated. Our astonishing children are our fig 1 priority.’

Before Matthew, Davina had been concisely joined to store manager Andrew Leggett from 1997-1999.

It’s wide that 5 years later, Davina and Michael are inactive going beardown and capable to thin connected each different adjacent successful times of difficulty.

A mentation of this communicative was archetypal published September 13, 2023.

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