TV presenter McCall, 57, underwent surgery last week after being diagnosed with a “very rare” benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst. Following the operation, her partner Michael Douglas said she was recovering in intensive care as a precaution and was feeling “utterly exhausted” but the doctor described the surgery as being “textbook”. 'What Davina's gone through I personally feel will be a longer recovery period.
' Russell Watson knows what Davina McCall is going through – having been through the same experience himself. Russell talks about his own recovery after having two operations for brain tumours. — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Watson said: “Davina, I’ve worked with on lots of occasions, she’s one of the loveliest people, type of person that enters a room and lights it up.
“And all I can say is I just wish her the very, very best, because the operation is one thing but the recovery from that type of operation, in particular, which is intercranial, I believe, it’ll be a long recovery. So I just send my love.” In a video posted to Instagram ahead of her surgery, McCall said she was getting the tumour removed through a craniotomy, a surgical procedure to remove temporarily part of the skull.
Watson, 57, underwent his own tumour-removal surgeries in 2006 and 2007, one which went through his nose and a secondary operation through the back of the lip after he had a haemorrhage in his slee.