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Davina McCall reveals she named her brain tumour and even threw it a PARTY with speeches, songs and her boyfriend playing piano - but was so scared of dying she wrote farewell letters to her children


The Big Brother star, 57, shared on her podcast Begin Again: 'I called my brain tumour Jeffrey,' she said.

A rare colloid cyst in her brain, though benign, carried the risk of sudden death before the TV presenter underwent life-saving surgery in November 2024. The My Mum Your Dad presenter had her tumour picked up at a private clinic when she was offered a health check after taking part in a talk about menopause The Long Lost Family host believed that ‘in my head, I was literally the healthiest person in the world... And I had this head-to-toe scan.

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