Davina McCall shocked fans and judges with the “maddest ruse” of her life as she unveiled herself as a secret celebrity contestant on The Masked Singer. Her appearance comes shortly after she returned to normality after undergoing a successful operation to remove a rare 14mm-wide benign tumour, a colloid cyst, from her brain, in November.

Davina McCall stunned viewers and fellow judges alike when she was unveiled as the Star on The Masked Singer Christmas special, just weeks after undergoing brain surgery. The 57-year-old presenter, who has been a judge on the ITV singing contest for six years,

The Masked Singer' judge Davina McCall shocked the ITV show's fans and fooled her fellow panellists on the show's Christmas special - when she was unmasked as Star.