Who is Davina McCall's partner Michael Douglas? Hairstylist remains by presenter's side during brain tumour op

Davina McCall has go a staple of British tv implicit the past 3 decades, presenting the likes of Big Brother and a big of different programmes.

While she whitethorn beryllium utilized to helping others stock their stories, the 56-year-old – and her partner Michael Douglas – took to Instagram connected Friday to denote news regarding her health.

In the video, McCall reveals that a scan recovered a 14mm benign encephalon tumour – known arsenic a colloid cyst – successful her brain, which requires country to remove.

Her spouse has updated radical with the quality connected societal media.

“Hey everyone. Michael here. @davinamccall volition beryllium “off grid” for a spot portion she recovers from this encephalon operation,” her spouse wrote.

“I’ll 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.”

Despite sharing his sanction with a famous Hollywood actor, this Douglas hails from Lancashire and worked arsenic a motorbike mechanic earlier turning his manus to hairdressing successful the 1990s.

After joining Wella’s London studio, the 49-year-old began moving with celebrities, styling the likes of Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer astatine New York Fashion Week.

Since then, helium has worked with celebrities including Sienna Miller and Johnny Depp and made regular TV appearances, including a regular stint connected BBC’s The One Show.

During the 2000s, the hairstylist won a occupation styling McCall’s hairsbreadth during the Big Brother heyday. The brace clicked and helium rapidly became her go-to hairsbreadth stylist, and they became adjacent implicit their 20-year friendship.

The mates – who some person children from erstwhile marriages – went nationalist with their romanticist narration years later, successful 2019, with their narration increasing person aft McCall’s separation from ex-husband Matthew Robertson successful 2017.

The brace presently big a fashionable podcast together, called Making the Cut, wherever they stock their views connected manner products and experiences.

Speaking to The Sun, McCall said: “We are champion friends. We conscionable get connected truly good astatine enactment and we ever person done – that’s ne'er changed.”

In a January 2023 occurrence of the podcast, the mates shared the quality that they’d moved successful together. “I americium rather enjoying being a caller mates doing caller things, due to the fact that we are recently surviving together,” McCall said. “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?’”

After accepting the grant for Inspiration of the Year astatine past year’s Inspiration Awards, the iconic presenter told Hello! that her spouse – whom she thanked successful her acceptance code – “makes maine a overmuch amended person”.

She added: “He makes maine skip to enactment successful the morning, and I’m precise fortunate to person that, truthful I conscionable privation to accidental convey you to him arsenic well.”