Davina McCall: British TV Star Reveals She’s In Hospital To Undergo Brain Tumor Operation

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Davina McCall, the former Big Brother host and one of the UK’s best-known television presenters, has revealed that she is in hospital undergoing an operation to remove a benign brain tumor.

In an Instagram video, McCall, who co-presents ITV’s BAFTA-winning series Long Lost Family, said a “very rare” colloid cyst was discovered in her brain after she underwent a health scan earlier this year. “It needs to come out because if it grows, it would be bad,” she revealed, adding that she would have a craniotomy operation.

McCall said she would be in hospital for nine days and would be off social media for some time. A post shared by Davina McCall (@davinamccall) “A few months ago, I did a menopause talk for a company and they offered me a health scan in return, which I thought I was going to ace,” she said. “But it turned out I had a benign brain tumor called a colloid cyst, which is very rare – three in a million.

And so I slightly put my head in the sand for a while, and then I saw quite a few neurosurgeons. I got lots of opinions, and I realized that I have to get it taken out. “It’s big for the space.