and discussed their changed feelings towards death as they reflected on feeling grateful following their battles.
The former Big Brother presenter, 58, was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour in 2024, followed by breast cancer in November 2025.
Meanwhile Jamie, 55, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer two years ago and underwent three surgeries which were successful in battling the disease.
And on Friday Davina filled in for an absent as she joined Jamie and on Heart Breakfast.
Remarking that the last time she was on the show was pre-brain tumour, the pair reflected on their cancer battles as Davina insisted she is no longer afraid of dying.
While both stars have had successful treatment, they admitted they both still have 'scanxiety' before a check up.
Davina McCall, 58, and Jamie Theakston, 55, discussed their changed feelings towards death after cancer battles as during Heart Breakfast on Friday
Jamie confessed he is not over the fear of death as he replied: 'No, I couldn't face that now no. 'I wanted to see my kids grow up and see my grandchildren'
Jamie explained: 'It's funny how in your mind when you lie awake at night when you think of all the terrible things.
'I was thinking about how I was going to tell the kids and what I was going to do with work?'
Interrupting, Davina then questioned: 'Can I ask you something Jamie, because that is basically planning how you are going to announce you not being here anymore, have you come to terms with dying now? Have you let go?'
Jamie confessed he is definitely not over the fear of death as he replied: 'No, I couldn't face that now no.
'I wanted to see my kids grow up and see my grandchildren and there were so many more things that I wanted to do, that I wasn't prepared to do that.'
However Davina's health battles have on the other hand completely changed her attitude to life as she admitted: 'I am not afraid of dying anymore, it's a lovely feeling.'
Sensing the chat was getting rather deep for 7am in the morning, Jamie joked: 'Ok, this has taken a turn,' while Davina added: 'It feels liberating though that's what is interesting about it.
'But I am well and I am bouncy, annoyingly chipper. Because I think it makes you so grateful. You and me we got a second go. We are so lucky.'
Davina previously revealed she is stepping back from full-time work after a frightening breast cancer diagnosis served as a stark wake-up call.
Speaking candidly on the Miss Me? podcast in January, the Masked Singer judge admitted the double health blow had forced her to confront a lifetime of running from change and overworking.
'Change is something that all my life, I spent running away from,' she confessed. 'I absolutely hated it. Change was something that really frightened me. I always loved the status quo, knowing what I was doing and feeling safe in that.'
For over three decades, Davina has maintained a punishing schedule, fronting everything from Big Brother and Long Lost Family to The Masked Singer and My Mum, Your Dad.
But the mother-of-three revealed her perspective has shifted dramatically following her recent health battles, acknowledging that her most significant personal growth has emerged from difficult periods.
'What has happened, actually, is that I have realised that all my really big growth has come from change - and often quite painful change,' she said.
Davina underwent an operation to remove a colloid cyst in her brain last year and almost one year later found a lump on her breast
Davina explained while her brain tumour had initially prompted reflection about reducing stress, it was the subsequent breast cancer diagnosis that truly forced her hand.
'I had an amazing breakthrough when I got clean in the early nineties,' she said, referring to her heroin and alcohol addiction in her twenties.
'I had another huge breakthrough after I had my brain tumour removed. I realised that I needed to de-stress my life.
'Interestingly, I realised that - but then the breast cancer, which I thought was a very, very frightening thing, made me realise that I really, really had to put that into place. And I have now.'
She continued: 'I'm going to work a four-day week. I feel so much better now about my life and trying to get it more balanced.
'So now, really, as I hit this stage of my life, I want to take more care of myself. That is my latest project: me, because I can't take care of anyone else if I'm not okay.'
