Davina McCall has been urgently admitted to hospital for brain surgery. The Masked Singer judge underwent an operation to remove a 14mm benign brain tumour, which she discovered during a health scan a few months ago.
In a video update shared on Friday November 15, Davina asked her fans to keep her in their prayers as her boyfriend Michael Douglas takes over her social media during her recovery period.
Michael reassured fans that Davina is in “great shape” but will be “off grid” until she’s fully recovered, according to latest reports in the Mirror.
He wrote in the caption of the video: “Hey everyone. Michael here. @davinamccall will be “off grid” for a bit while she recovers from this brain operation. She is in great shape and in very good hands.
“I’ll do the odd update from her account here for anyone interested. I’m sure she’ll read all the comments when she’s able to so feel free to send love [heart emoji] . The support of people is amazingly powerful. Have a great day everyone. Michael xxx”
Alongside her husband’s caption, Davina addressed fans in a video, saying: “I was offered a health scan which I thought I was going to ace but it turned out I had benign brain tumour which is very rare, ‘three in a million’. I put my head in the sand for a while. It’s 14mm wide and it needs to come out because if it grows it would be bad. I’m having it removed.”
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She added: “Say a prayer for me. I’m in good spirits.” The NHS defines a benign brain tumour as: “A benign (non-cancerous) brain tumour is a mass of cells that grows relatively slowly in the brain.
“Non-cancerous brain tumours tend to stay in one place and do not spread. It will not usually come back if all of the tumour can be safely removed during surgery. If the tumour cannot be completely removed, there’s a risk it could grow back. In this case it’ll be closely monitored using scans or treated with radiotherapy.”
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