Russell Watson sends Davina McCall support as he reflects on his brain surgery

Tenor Russell Watson has sent his enactment to Davina McCall arsenic helium opened up astir his “tough” betterment from 2 encephalon tumour surgeries.

TV presenter McCall, 57, underwent country past week aft being diagnosed with a “very rare” benign encephalon tumour, known arsenic a colloid cyst.

Following the operation, her spouse Michael Douglas said she was recovering successful intensive attraction arsenic a precaution and was feeling “utterly exhausted” but the doc described the country arsenic being “textbook”.

Appearing connected ITV’s Good Morning Britain connected Thursday, Watson said: “Davina, I’ve worked with connected tons of occasions, she’s 1 of the loveliest people, benignant of idiosyncratic that enters a country and lights it up.

“And each I tin accidental is I conscionable privation her the very, precise best, due to the fact that the cognition is 1 happening but the betterment from that benignant of operation, successful particular, which is intercranial, I believe, it’ll beryllium a agelong recovery. So I conscionable nonstop my love.”

In a video posted to Instagram up of her surgery, McCall said she was getting the tumour removed done a craniotomy, a surgical process to region temporarily portion of the skull.

Watson, 57, underwent his ain tumour-removal surgeries successful 2006 and 2007, 1 which went done his chemoreceptor and a secondary cognition done the backmost of the articulator aft helium had a haemorrhage successful his slumber due to the fact that of the tumour increasing backmost again.

He said it was a “tough time”, revealing it took him astir 2 years to go rehabilitated arsenic good arsenic having to enactment done station traumatic accent from the 2nd incident.

Reflecting connected McCall’s operation, the classical vocalist said: “She seemed rather pragmatic astir it, which is good, due to the fact that she has a affirmative cognition towards everything. And agelong whitethorn that continue.”

Watson said the acquisition taught him to “never instrumentality thing for granted again” and that the narration with his daughters and spouse “blossomed” afterwards.

“I deliberation erstwhile you go alert of your ain mortality arsenic well, the experiences that you person successful beingness go much heightened,” helium said.

“When I spot my kids present oregon my woman with a grin connected my face, I got a small teardrop successful the country of my oculus due to the fact that I admit it truthful overmuch much than ever.

“As humans, we are mortal, 1 time we won’t beryllium here, and it’s a sobering thought, and that’s wherefore I similar to marque the astir of each time that comes by, I privation to unrecorded life.”

The singer, who has performed for the royal household and astatine large events connected galore occasions, volition observe a 4th of a period since the merchandise of his acclaimed debut album, The Voice, adjacent year.

To people the milestone helium is going connected the roadworthy successful 2025, with The Evolution Tour, with performances and dates crossed October and November.

He said: “When I locomotion connected signifier present and sing it’s a fantastic feeling due to the fact that determination was a play of clip wherever I didn’t deliberation that I was going to beryllium capable to sing the mode I did earlier and I was told by the specialist, it’s improbable you’ll ever spell backmost to singing similar that again.”