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Presenter Davina McCall has revealed she has had breast cancer and underwent surgery three weeks ago. In a video posted to her Instagram account on Saturday morning, she said she was “very angry” when she found out but feels in a “much more positive place” following a lumpectomy. She said: “I have had breast cancer. I found a lump a few weeks ago. It came and went but then I was working on The Masked Singer and Lorraine, the TV show, and Lorraine Kelly had put signs on the backs of all the doors saying ‘check your breasts’ and every time I went for a wee I did that. “It was still there, and then one morning I saw myself in the mirror and thought ‘I’m going to get that looked at’. I had a biopsy. I found out it was indeed breast cancer and I had it taken out in a lumpectomy nearly three weeks ago.” She added: “It was very, very small, so I got it very, very early which is incredibly lucky. But I am so relieved to have had it removed and to know that it hasn’t spread. My lymph nodes were clear, I didn’t have any removed, and all I’m going to do now is have five days of radiotherapy in January as kind of an insurance policy.” In her Instagram post, Davina McCall thanked medical staff who treated her and urged women to get their breasts checked. She said: “I just want to say a massive thank you to everybody at the Royal Marsden (Hospital) … all the nurses, doctors who have helped me, thank you for your support. “Thanks to my family, to my brilliant kids, and an extra special thanks to Michael (Douglas). It’s been a lot. I was very angry when I found out, but I let go of that and I feel in a much more positive place now. I think my message is: get checked if you’re worried. Check yourself regularly. If you are due a mammogram, then get it done. “I have dense breasts and I had a mammogram in August, and I was postponing the ultrasound; I just couldn’t find time to do it. Don’t do that. Get the ultrasound.” The latest health news comes after the 57-year-old underwent surgery last year to remove a benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst, which was found after she was offered a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work. She returned to work in March this year, saying: “I was recovering at home in my bedroom, a lot, going for a couple of walks a day, but I was kind of stuck in my bedroom, and it became my safe space, and I kind of didn’t want to leave. “And I got a bit nervous about going back to work, and I kept, kind of, in my head, thinking, ‘Well, I could just make a bit of an excuse’. And Michael (Douglas, her partner) said to me, ‘I know you, I know how much you love work and how much it means to you, I know you’re scared, but this is the final piece of the jigsaw, and I think it’s going to make a big difference when you go back’. “And I was so angry with him, and then when I went back at the end of the day, I sat in the car and I was like, yes, it felt so good to see everybody and to be back to normal. It felt like something normal that I could do that I love.” The presenter, who is known for hosting Big Brother between 2000 and 2010 during its Channel 4 run, has long advocated on women’s health issues, and presented documentaries on contraception and the menopause. She has also co-presented BBC Comic Relief and Sport Relief, Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer, The Million Pound Drop, Long Lost Family and dating programme My Mum, Your Dad.
