Davina McCall has been rushed to hospital for brain surgery.
The Masked Singer judge has had an operation to remove a 14mm benign brain tumour, which she discovered during a health scan a few months ago while giving a talk for a menopause company.
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. 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."
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ITV)"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." She added: "Say a prayer for me. I'm in good spirits."
The NHS describes 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."
The sudden news comes after Davina opened up about her struggles with "empty nest syndrome" as her children grow up and leave home. The 57-year-old TV star was overwhelmed with emotion, confessing that she 'couldn't stop crying' when her eldest daughter moved to Manchester after university. Davina, mother to Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18, shared how she "cried all the way home" after dropping off Holly.
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With Tilly already in Sydney and only Chester at home, a source revealed that Davina is finding it hard to adjust to not being needed as much. They said: "With only Chester still at home, she just can’t believe how fast her kids are growing up. Davina, like any mum, also can’t help worry about her daughters, even though they’re in their twenties. She feels like part of her is missing now that they’re living their own lives and that she won't be needed in the same way. She’s no longer being asked to make dinners, do their washing etc. It’s the little things that she’ll miss."
The TV celebrity got real about her emotional trip back from Manchester after dropping her eldest off, despite the city being just "two hours away" by train. In an intimate reveal to The Times Magazine, she disclosed: "I wasn't worried about empty nest syndrome until I drove my daughter to Manchester recently. We built IKEA furniture all day, settled her in, and then I cried all the way home."
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