Davina McCall made a heartbreaking confession as she spoke openly about her cancer diagnosis. The ever-cheerful presenter revealed how her health scare left her feeling like she had a "punch in the throat". This came after she had already undergone surgery for a brain tumour and had been hoping that 2025 would allow her to concentrate on her recovery. Yet Davina was dealt another blow when she was told she had breast cancer, just two months after receiving a mammogram.

Speaking to Jamie Theakston on his Heart Breakfast show, Davina said: "It was just quite a difficult year and in October, interestingly, two years almost to the month, where I found out I had a brain tumour, I got breast cancer, and it felt like being punched in the face by the universe. I just thought what, I was just about beginning to feel like myself again, and I had a mammogram in August, and this was in October, and I found a lump. So just don't think, "oh, I had a mammogram recently, it can't be that". It could be. So just check, if you've got something, go get it looked at. It takes seconds," reports the Mirror.

Towards the end of 2024, Davina, 58, disclosed that a rare benign tumour, known as a colloid cyst, had been uncovered during a routine health check, as part of her ongoing menopause advocacy work. Following her brain surgery, Davina revealed she experienced symptoms resembling Alzheimer's - something that had deeply worried radio presenter Jamie at the time.

"[My memory] was absolutely mad," she confided. "I thought I had advanced Alzheimer's, I didn't know I had an operation, I thought I was in America because I was in a place called the Cleveland Clinic."

Jamie admitted he had been left both baffled and worried by some of her comments, with Davina now expressing regret for causing him such concern. She went on to reveal that she had even contacted her agent shortly after her surgery to remind her that she would need time off.

That same year, Jamie received his own devastating cancer diagnosis. He was informed he had stage one laryngeal cancer, for which he has since undergone surgery. Despite this, he confesses he still harbours anxiety over the prospect of it returning.