Davina McCall has announced she is undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour.
The TV presenter and Masked Singer judge is having the operation to remove a 14mm benign brain tumour, which she discovered during a recent health scan.
She shared the news in an Instagram post on Friday, revealing she had a ‘very rare’ colloid cyst that affects only three in a million people.
In a new video posted to her Instagram account, McCall explained: “Hi, so I’m posting this it will be Friday morning. I’m doing it it because a few months ago I did a menopause talk for a company and they offered me a health scan in return, which I thought I was going to ace, but it turned out I had a benign brain tumour called a colloid cyst, which is very rare.”
McCall explained that upon learning about the tumour, she put her “head in the sand for a while” but then sought out advice from neurosurgeons and got different opinions.
“I realised that I have to get it taken out,” she said. “It’s big for the space – it fills the space. It’s 14mm wide. And it needs to come out because if it grows it would be bad.”
The presenter will undergo a craniotomy – a surgical procedure to remove part of the skull to access the brain – to take out the cyst.
“Say a prayer for me,” she said. “I am in good spirits.”
McCall’s partner Michael Douglas then arrived in the video to assure fans he was taking care of her, and that she will be “off the grid” until she recovers. She will be in hospital for nine days in total.
A colloid cyst is a very rare brain tumour, which occurs only in about three in a million people. According to the London Neurology Partnership, colloid cysts are small fluid-filled sacs located in or around the lateral and third ventricle of the brain.
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