Davina McCall will have brain surgery after being diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumour. The TV presenter, 57, said the benign brain tumour , known as a colloid cyst, was found after she was offered a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work. In a video on Instagram , she said: "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, three in a million.
"And so I slightly put my head in the sand for a while, and then I saw quite a few neurosurgeons. I got lots of opinions, and I realised that I have to get it taken out." McCall described it as a "big" tumour , 14 mm wide, adding: "It needs to come out, because if it grows, it would be bad.
" She is having it removed through a craniotomy, a surgical procedure to temporarily remove part of the skull, and said she is in "good spirits". She said: "I'm going to be in hospital for about nine days, and then I'm going to be going home, but I'm going to be off my phone for a while. But I don't want you to worry about me.
I'm doing that enough as it is. "I am in a good space, and I have all the faith in the world in my surgeon and his team, and I am handing the reins over to him. He knows what he's doing.
" According to the NHS , non-cancerous brain tumours are more common in people over the age of 50, and signs include headaches, blackouts, behavioural cha.