Iam so happy for Davina McCall and her new husband who are said to have just got married “secretly” in front of close friends and family. And I get why she and her long-term partner Michael Douglas have finally done it after years together: because life is short and Davina knows that more than most.

In November the TV presenter revealed she’d found a lump in her breast. Last year she underwent surgery to remove a tumour from her brain . In the last 12 months she has had to confront the possibility of her life being taken away from her on two separate occasions.

That is profound: it completely concentrates your mind – what do you really want to do with the rest of your time on this planet? Who do you really want alongside you?

I know because it happened to me. In the early hours

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