{"id":135394,"date":"2025-09-13T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135394\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:08:10","slug":"davina-mccall-confirms-secret-engagement-to-partner-following-brain-tumour-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135394\/","title":{"rendered":"Davina McCall confirms secret engagement to partner following brain tumour surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Television presenter Davina McCall<\/a> has announced her engagement to hairdresser Michael Douglas, her representative has confirmed to the PA news agency.<\/p>\n

The news comes months after the 57-year-old revealed her “final MRI” showed a benign brain tumour<\/a> had been fully removed during surgery and was “not coming back”. <\/a><\/p>\n

The former Big Brother<\/a> host underwent an operation in November 2024 to remove a colloid cyst, discovered during a health check-up offered as part of her menopause advocacy work.<\/p>\n

Following her surgery, McCall spent time in intensive care before recovering at home with Douglas\u2019s help. The couple reportedly met on Big Brother in the early 2000s, when Douglas styled her hair, a detail first reported by The Sun.<\/p>\n

McCall and Douglas co-host the \u2018Making The Cut\u2019 podcast, and she is often seen having her hair styled by him in posts on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n

McCall previously praised her partner for his love and support as they navigated the buildup to the brain tumour operation and the recovery process.<\/p>\n

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The couple reportedly met on Big Brother in the early 2000s, when Douglas styled her hai (Alamy\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been incredibly helpful in terms of coping with everything, and in the lead-up. I was always going to get the truth from Michael,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree weeks before the operation, I showed Michael my true feelings. I said I felt really scared. I had a massive cry\u2026 he said that when we first got together, he was like, \u2018You\u2019re quite hard to look after, how do I do that?\u2019 And when we had that big talk, he said, \u2018You know, I\u2019ve been in training for this moment. And I\u2019m ready, you know, I\u2019ve got your back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple recently made an appearance together at the National Television Awards<\/a> (NTAs), where McCall presented the prize for authored documentary.<\/p>\n

McCall, who won the special recognition award in 2024, told the 2025 winners\u2019 room that the prize \u201cmeant so much\u201d because she \u201cwasn\u2019t sure where I was going to be six weeks later\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cIt was mega, it was the best ever and Hannah (Waddingham) giving it to me, I love Hannah, Hannah\u2019s such a friend of mine and everything and I ugly cried.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Douglas and Davina McCall during the NTA’s 2025 at The O2 Arena (Getty Images for the NTA’s)<\/p>\n

McCall had received the award in September 2024, two months before she revealed she would be undergoing brain surgery.<\/p>\n

According to the NHS, non-cancerous brain tumours are more common in people over the age of 50, and symptoms include headaches, blackouts, behavioural changes and loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-135394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}