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Davina McCall recently shared a domestic mishap that left her elbow painfully “twanged,” calling the incident “terrible.” The TV host discussed the unfortunate event with her husband, celebrity hairstylist Michael Douglas, during a chat that touched on health, fitness, and Michael’s journey towards better understanding his own body.
In a recent episode of their podcast, Making The Cut, Davina mentioned the benefits they’ve been experiencing from using the workout supplement creatine. She praised its remarkable impact on Michael’s physique, noting that it helped him build muscle after struggling with it previously. Michael expressed his eagerness to “learn” more about his body and its functions, sharing a story about hairstyling retired ballerina and former Strictly Come Dancing judge, Darcey Bussell.
Michael recalled Darcey’s profound understanding of her own body, admitting he felt “jealous” and aspired to have a similar knowledge of his own physical self. He observed that ballerinas are intimately acquainted with “every single tendon and ligament” in their bodies.
Davina chimed in, reflecting, “Imagine not being allowed to get injured. I’ve spent so much time slightly injured. Just the other day, I fell up the stairs and now my elbow is twanged, and you know how it goes.”
She added, “For athletes or dancers, any kind of injury can be devastating. It’d be terrible, truly.”
Michael noted that he’s become more mindful about his diet, observing how different foods affect his “feelings” and “reactions.” He mentioned finding the effects of creatine particularly “interesting” in his personal health journey.
Davina recently spoke honestly about her own health and how she felt like she’d been “punched in the face by the universe” after learning she had a brain tumour and then breast cancer.
Her cancer diagnosis came about a year after she had an operation to remove the benign brain tumour; Davina has also undergone surgery to treat breast cancer.
Speaking on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on March 27, Davina and Jamie discussed their recent cancer experiences, with the former saying they’d “been on quite a journey”.
Davina said: “We’ve been on quite a journey you and me, when I, when I got you in that grip where it hurt your throat and you found out it was cancer, I carried that burden where I thought I’d hurt you for quite a long time.”
Jamie, who announced last year that he was “cancer-free” following treatment for laryngeal cancer, replied: “No! As I always said, if you hadn’t have done that, I never would have known.”
Davina continued: “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 the August and this was the 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.”
