Davina McCall issues ‘dressing-down’ to BBC star and says ‘you owe it to yourself’
Davina McCall has been sharing some heartfelt advice with her famous pal Trinny Woodall, who said the conversation had completely shifted her perspective on confidence and femininity
Davina McCall(Image: Handout)
Davina McCall has given a “dressing down” to a BBC star, encouraging her famous friend to embrace feeling confident and sensual for herself.
The 58-year-old television favourite recently offered some heartfelt advice to close friend Trinny Woodall, telling the former What Not To Wear presenter: “You owe it to yourself to wake up every morning and put on the ‘boss’ underwear.”
Davina’s remarks came during an online video in which Trinny, 62, discussed her own confidence struggles following her separation from art collector Charles Saatchi in 2023.
In a Facebook post, Trinny showed Davina a drawer filled with plain grey underwear and quipped: “This is my underwear drawer – you can tell I haven’t had a relationship for three years.”
However, Davina’s encouragement seemed to resonate with her longtime friend, who subsequently admitted the conversation had completely transformed her perspective, reports the Mirror.
Reflecting on the exchange, Trinny suggested many women would probably identify with prioritising comfort over style.
“How many of you see your friends in sexy underwear but think, ‘not for me’…?” she said. “I’m sure many of you will relate when I say I’d rather be comfortable than feel like I have a cheese grater up my bottom.”
Nevertheless, she revealed that Davina’s recent health battles had prompted her to reconsider things. “I have to say that a recent catch-up with Davina McCall has really shifted my perspective,” Trinny said. “After navigating some life-threatening challenges, Davina has reached a place where she actively prioritises her identity as a sensual woman, and she reminded me that feeling fabulous in one’s knickers is a private joy that we can do entirely for ourselves.”
She went on to say: “It made me realise that I don’t embrace the softer, feminine side of myself as much as I perhaps ought to… Time to push the boat out a little bit.”
The frank conversation appears to have had an immediate effect, with Trinny subsequently posing online in black lingerie following what Daily Mail columnist Richard Eden described as a “dressing-down” from her famous friend.
Davina recently opened up about the health struggles that have transformed her life in recent years, laying bare the emotional burden of several serious diagnoses.
The television presenter was initially diagnosed with a benign brain tumour, which was removed through surgery, before subsequently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The breast cancer diagnosis came approximately a year after her brain tumour surgery.
Reflecting on her ordeal during an appearance on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden in March, Davina described the period as deeply challenging, revealing that she and Jamie had “been on quite a journey”.
She also reflected on the emotional burden of an earlier incident in her friendship with Jamie, saying: “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 Theakston, who revealed last year that he was “cancer-free” after undergoing treatment for laryngeal cancer, offered reassurance, saying: “No! As I always said, if you hadn’t have done that, I never would have known.”
Davina continued to explain how rapidly her own circumstances deteriorated after she had started to recover from her previous illness. She revealed that nearly two years to the day after learning about the brain tumour, she received a breast cancer diagnosis.
She said: “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.”
