Television presenter Davina McCall has revealed she underwent surgery for breast cancer nearly three weeks ago.
In a video posted to her Instagram account, the Comic Relief host said she was “very angry” by the discovery but feels in a “much more positive place”.
McCall, 58, said she found a lump in her breast after checking herself and got it examined, adding: “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.”
The former Big Brother presenter thanked medical staff at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, where she had the lumpectomy, and urged women to get their breasts checked.
It comes a year after McCall underwent surgery to remove a rare brain tumour. A colloid cyst was found during a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work and McCall later said she was given the all clear after MRI scans.
McCall started her Instagram post by telling her 2.1m followers: “I’m talking about this because I think it might help someone. And this is what I always do.”
She said she found a lump a few weeks ago which “came and went” but was encouraged to get it examined after seeing posters telling women to “check your breasts” while working on ITV’s The Masked Singer and Lorraine show.
She said presenter 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 [the lump] 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.”
McCall said she was going to have five days of radiotherapy in January “as kind of an insurance policy” and then will be on a “journey to try and stop it ever coming back”.
She added: “I think my message is: get checked if you’re worried. Check yourself regularly. If you are due a mammogram, then get it done.”
