{"id":72667,"date":"2025-08-17T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72667\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:45:07","slug":"davina-mccall-shares-end-of-life-checklist-after-devastating-tumour-news-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72667\/","title":{"rendered":"Davina McCall shares ‘end of life checklist’ after devastating tumour news | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV presenter Davina McCall<\/a> opened up about the major action she took after being diagnosed with a brain tumour<\/a> during a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work in November. Despite being told it was benign, the 57-year-old was convinced death was imminent and proceeded to make an end-of-life checklist, which she now says was \u201cthe best gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

During an emotional interview, the former Big Brother host admitted that the list came four months after her diagnosis because she spiralled into denial. However, she took action after receiving a \u201cwake-up call\u201d from her fourth neurosurgeon<\/a>, who issued her a stern warning to act quickly or else she would die. Davina recalled: \u201cIt\u2019s a big tumour. It can\u2019t grow anymore, or you\u2019ll get water on the brain. If you\u2019re on a plane, there would have to be an emergency landing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at Fearne Cotton\u2019s Happy Place Festival, Davina said: \u201cI needed to get my brain in the right place where I could be calm before the operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to make sure that my kids were going to be OK if I did not make it. That is all I really cared about. I knew my partner, Michael, would be OK as he is a whole person, but I was really worried about my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davina and her \u201csoulmate\u201d celebrity hairdresser Michael have been dating since 2019, following the end of her 17-year marriage to Matthew Robertson in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The star, who shares Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and 18-year-old Chester with her ex, added: \u201cI went into forensic thinking about my children and where they were at in their lives, what stage they were at. You are only happy as your unhappiest child.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cBut I realised that they would be great, they would miss me, and I want to be with them, but they would be fine.<\/p>\n

“I felt I could go to sleep on the operating table and know that they were all here to help me, but I can let go of the outcome, and it was the best gift.”<\/p>\n

Davina revealed that in the end, her checklist came down to finding peace in the fact that her loved ones would survive without her.<\/p>\n

The mum of three claims her brain surgery is “the best thing to ever happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davina continued: \u201cI am not afraid of dying anymore. It was the biggest journey of my life. It was an amazing time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been on a massive life journey, and I have been through terrible struggles. That is where the learning comes from. If something really hard happens now, I know it is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Davina McCall opened up about the major action she took after being diagnosed with a brain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33643,37351,3742,37358,37356,37353,37354,37357,37355,96,59,37352,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brain-tumour","tag-davina","tag-davina-mccall","tag-davina-mccall-and-michael","tag-davina-mccall-boyfriend","tag-davina-mccall-brain-tumour","tag-davina-mccall-end-of-life-checklist","tag-davina-mccall-kids","tag-davina-mccall-menopause-advocacy","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-mccall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667","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=72667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}