Davina McCall revealed on Friday that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer after finding a lump in her breast and then undergoing a lumpectomy

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Davina has been diagnosed with breast cancer(Image: Getty Images for BAFTA)

Davina McCall has spoken about the rage she felt when she was diagnosed with breast cancer just a year on from having brain surgery. She recalled that she was “f***ing stamping her feet” with anger as she spoke to her partner Michael Douglas about her disgnosis.

The 58-year-old revealed on via Instagram Friday that had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Since the diagnosis, she has had a biopsy and the cancer was removed in a lumpectomy just weeks ago.

During a Dine With Davina charity event, the star admitted she was angry over the disease as it was just a year since she had brain tumour surgery.

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Davina opened up about her diagnosis(Image: Getty)

Davina said: “I got really f*****g angry. And you know me, I’m a pacifist – I don’t really get angry – I’m like Tigger. I’m just always happy.

“I was like: ‘Are you f******g joking? What the f**k! Are you serious? I was keeping it all in and Michael one day looked at me and he said: ‘Stop. I can see what you’re doing. You’re not going there.’ He said: ‘Let’s talk about it’ – I said: ‘I’m fine.'”

She added: “He said: ‘You’re not fine’. I was like: ‘No, no, I’m fine. Honestly.’ I’m not f*****g fine, that’s why I’m f*****g mad. He just sat and he came and watched me and I was f*****g stamping my feet. And it felt so good.”

The TV presenter said that she caught the cancer early but will still require five days of radiotherapy in January as an “insurance policy” to remain cancer free.

Taking to Instagram to share the news, Davina said: “I just wanted to tell you that I have had breast cancer. I found a lump a few weeks ago, and it came and went.”

She added: “So 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 … 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.”

Davina also said she had “dense breasts”, which is a risk factor in developing breast cancer and makes it harder to detect.

The star went on to thank everybody at the Royal Marsden hospital who treated her as well as her “brilliant kids”. She continued: “An extra special thanks to Michael – 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.”

She explained that she managed to find the lump when she was at the ITV Lorraine studio. She said she was in the toilets where there were posters urging people to check their breasts and that’s when she found it.

Davina’s health setback comes almost a year after the TV star was diagnosed with a rare benign brain tumour which required neurosurgery. The surgery on the colloid cyst proved to be successful and recent scans showed no sign of recurrence.