Davina McCall has shared a first insight into her wedding day with Michael Douglas as she detailed details from their ‘intimate’ ceremony and reception.
The TV presenter, 58, who married her partner in December, described it as: ‘The most perfect day, with only 11 guests. It was very intimate and special.’
Davina who was speaking from the Bestseller Awards, where she won an award for her book Menopausing, hailed hairdresser Michael for his unstinting support.
She said: ‘He is the ultimate female ally and menopause ally. He’s helped so many women, including myself, with menopausal hair.’
She added: ‘I can’t walk down the street without women nodding at me and smiling.’
The couple recently shared their hopes for the coming year after Davina suffered several health setbacks in 2025.
Davina McCall has shared a first insight into her wedding day with Michael Douglas as she detailed details from their ‘intimate’ ceremony and reception
The TV presenter, 58, who married her partner in December, described it as: ‘The most perfect day, with only 11 guests. It was very intimate and special’
Davina recently completed her radiotherapy for breast cancer after previously being diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in November 2024.
Speaking about the ‘shift’ she had felt on their podcast, Making The Cut, Davina remarked of the supermoon sighting on January 3: ‘Ever since the 1st of January everything has changed. It was the supermoon.Â
‘We got married and it was the supermoon.’
Michael, 49, replied: ‘I think I had the hardest year of my life last year. I think it was so hard. It broke me really. I would say by November, I was done.
‘I just thought, “I don’t think I can recover from this.” And I cannot tell you how good I feel….It’s the best I’ve felt for as long as I can remember.’Â
Davina replied: ‘But you have, and you are amazing.’Â
Elsewhere during the episode, the newlyweds discussed whether Davina would be taking Michael’s surname now that they are married.
She clarified: ‘I think, like in public, I am Davina McCall. I’ve always been Davina.’
Davina who was speaking from the Bestseller Awards, where she won an award for her book Menopausing, hailed hairdresser Michael for his unstinting support
Michael responded: ‘Yeah. You’ve just happened to be my wife now.’Â
Davina then confirmed: ‘Yeah, I’m going to stay like that.’
The couple wed just three months after getting engaged in Ibiza, and the intimate celebration was attended by ‘everyone who is special in their lives’.
Davina married her devoted partner after he supported her through surgery to remove a benign tumour from her brain and a recent breast cancer diagnosis, and friends claimed it was her recent health woes that prompted them to marry now.
She and Michael were supported by their loved ones at the wedding, with Davina’s daughter Tilly, 22, sharing a video on TikTok ahead of the ceremony.
Showing off her wedding look, she captioned the post: ‘Be prepared to be SICK of me.’
Last month, Davina broke her silence on the wedding to praise her ‘lovely’ new husband Michael in a social media post.
Davina shared a video of a poem by Harry Baker calling it ‘extraordinary’.
Davina held back tears as she revealed she has finished her radiotherapy after battling breast cancer last year
She revealed last November that she had detected it early after noticing a lump and getting it checked, leading to a lumpectomy (pictured on Stand Up To Cancer)
The poem contained the words: ‘It’s not the flowers, it’s the weeding in the mud with you. It’s not the champagne, it’s that cuppa in that favourite mug you use.
‘It’s not the chocolate. OK it is, but not just one or two, it is becoming Bruce Bogtrotter and Augustus Gloop.
‘It’s voting frozen pizza over fancy grub with you. Because some nights, nothing can beat a slice of comfort food.’
Earlier this month, Davina held back tears as she revealed she has finished her radiotherapy after battling breast cancer last year.
Davina revealed last November that she had detected it early after noticing a lump and getting it checked, leading to a successful lumpectomy.
She has now completed her course of preventative radiotherapy and became emotional about the treatment coming to an end.
Speaking in an Instagram video, she said: ‘I finished my radiotherapy today, and it was very, very emotional.’
Davina then paused for a moment and held back tears as she added: ‘Much more emotional than I thought it would be.Â
Davina underwent an operation to remove a colloid cyst in her brain last year and almost one year later found a lump on her breast
‘And I need a bit of positivity and brilliance, so I’m going to go and watch Julia Bradbury on Begin Again.’
Davina recently revealed she is stepping back from full-time work after her breast cancer diagnosis served as a stark wake-up call.
The TV star described the overhaul as essential after facing two major health scares in quick succession – a rare brain tumour in 2024, followed by cancer.
Speaking candidly on the Miss Me? podcast, the Masked Singer judge admitted the double health blow had forced her to confront a lifetime of running from change and overworking.
‘Change is something that all my life, I spent running away from,’ she confessed. ‘I absolutely hated it. Change was something that really frightened me. I always loved the status quo, knowing what I was doing and feeling safe in that.’
For over three decades, Davina has maintained a punishing schedule, fronting everything from Big Brother and Long Lost Family to The Masked Singer and My Mum, Your Dad.Â
But the mother-of-three revealed her perspective has shifted dramatically following her recent health battles, acknowledging that her most significant personal growth has emerged from difficult periods.
‘What has happened, actually, is that I have realised that all my really big growth has come from change – and often quite painful change,’ she said.
Davina explained while her brain tumour had initially prompted reflection about reducing stress, it was the subsequent breast cancer diagnosis that truly forced her hand.
‘I had an amazing breakthrough when I got clean in the early nineties,’ she said, referring to her heroin and alcohol addiction in her twenties.Â
‘I had another huge breakthrough after I had my brain tumour removed. I realised that I needed to de-stress my life.
‘Interestingly, I realised that – but then the breast cancer, which I thought was a very, very frightening thing, made me realise that I really, really had to put that into place. And I have now.’
She continued: ‘I’m going to work a four-day week. I feel so much better now about my life and trying to get it more balanced.
‘So now, really, as I hit this stage of my life, I want to take more care of myself. That is my latest project: me, because I can’t take care of anyone else if I’m not okay.’
The 14mm growth was discovered during a health scan offered as part of her menopause advocacy work.Â
Following a six-hour operation, Davina spent several days in intensive care before making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery.
She shares three children – Holly, 24, Tilly, 22, and Chester, 19 – with ex-husband Matthew Robertson, a former Pet Rescue presenter.
The couple were married for 17 years before divorcing in 2017, and have maintained an amicable co-parenting relationship.