It has been announced today (November 15) that Davina McCall has been sadly diagnosed with a brain tumour . The 57-year-old TV star, from London, has been taken in for surgery after doctors found a tumour on her brain . The former Big Brother presenter announced the news to her 1.
8million followers on Instagram page. She wrote: "Hi, so I’m posting this it will be Friday morning. I’m posting 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.
" Davina added: "Three in a million! 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. I realised that I have to get it taken out. "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 news comes just months after mum-of-three Davina made an urgent health plea to fans, again on her Instagram page, back in June.
She told fans about a free health check provided to women over the age of 40 by the government, but also campaigned for menopause to be added to the list of topics it covers. Davina wrote at the time: "Ok. So every woman in the UK is given a health check for free on the NHS at 40 (this is GREAT!) .
.. they talk about every single illness known to man that you might come across .
.. but the one thing that.