Davina McCall broke down in tears as she reunited with her long-time friend, Jamie Theakston, on his Heart FM Breakfast Show after their recent health battles.
Theakston, 54, returned to his radio show on Monday after getting the all-clear from laryngeal cancer following a five-month hiatus.
McCall, meanwhile, was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year and had surgery to remove it in November.
The Big Brother presenter, 57, couldn’t hold back the tears as she greeted Theakston at the radio studios, where she was appearing as a guest on his show with Amanda Holden.
In an emotional video, she wrapped her arms around her friend and tearfully admitted, “I was so worried about you!” as he said: “Oh, bless you. What are we like?”
The duo also fought back tears as they discussed their recent health battles on the show.
"Jamie Theakston is in the studio, and we’ve brought our lovely friend Davina McCall who’s been on her very own journey," Holden said, introducing the program.
"Oh my goodness, I’m just going to say, Davina is the queen of hugs. She hugged Jamie, I timed it, it was forty-four seconds and the forty ninth of the next second, so nearly a minute long that cuddle!"
McCall said: "I’m just so happy to see you, I can’t believe it! Can I be honest? When I hugged you that day here and I came round the back of you, how I like it, and put my arms around your throat - but like as a cuddle - and you went, ‘Ouch, ouch, ouch,’ and I looked at you and thought, ‘Oh my goodness I think I’ve really, really hurt him.’
"You looked genuinely in agony, and I thought it wasn’t acting, do you know what I mean? And I thought, ‘But I’m sure I didn’t hug you that hard,’ but I felt I carried that for a very long time and you…"
Beginning to cry again, she added: "You getting better means so much to me."
"Well, listen, without you doing that, I would not have known that there was something wrong with my throat," Jamie insisted. “So in actual fact, it wasn’t that you did any damage, it was the opposite."
"I am pleased that I did kind of hear that, but I still felt, I mean, obviously you're a friend of mine,” McCall admitted.
"I've known you for such a long time, since I was, what, 40 years or something like mad? I really care about you anyway, but this was like, I felt involved in you and your recovery.
“So, I can't tell you how happy I am to see you here. When Laurence [the producer] was like, ‘Oh, do you think you'll come down and say hi to Jamie?’ I was like, ‘Yes, this is my third day back at work, ’ but I was like, ‘I am coming.’"
Theakston then remarked on how “amazing” McCall looked just weeks after her surgery.
"I mean, it's been a rollercoaster, and it's weirdly been quite nice being sort of simultaneously trying to get through something with you," she replied.
Theakston recalled his shock at McCall’s diagnosis as she is the “fittest person” he knows.
She responded: "I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I’m like so clean. So, I just thought I don’t need a health check, why do it?”
When she did eventually get the health check, doctors found a colloid cyst. which she said was “incredibly rare, and it’s gone!"
Elsewhere on the radio show, Theakston became emotional as heartfelt tributes were played from his family, friends, and colleagues following his cancer journey.
His wife, Sophie Siegle, said: "Hello, darling. It's me, Sophie. When we found out you had cancer, it was wow, such a dark time."
His son Sidney added: "Well done for getting through these past few months."
After the messages, Theakston’s co-host Holden said: "What an amazing man you are. You really fought very hard, Jamie, you've kept your sense of humour, which is the most important thing, I think. And isn't it wonderful? It's a terrible thing to go through, but it's a wonderful thing to see how many people love you."
Theakston later urged listeners to get themselves checked for cancer.
"Ignoring cancer won't beat it. Cancer loves being ignored. It's a coward that lives in the shadows, and I think that, if we can shine a light on that, then we can defeat the darkness,” he warned.
"If we just get ourselves checked, then stage one diagnosis, which is what I was very fortunate enough to be at, shouldn't be a problem, but I do, I urge you to go and get checked."
Laryngeal cancer, which affects the voice box, has symptoms like pain when swallowing or a persistent sore throat, according to the NHS.
Theakston received plenty of fanfare as he arrived at the Heart Radio studios on Monday morning.
He was surprised by a group of bikers, who accompanied him on his motorcycle journey to the studios, before being greeted by fellow DJ, Toby Anstis.
Anstis was carrying a speaker that blared out the Technotronic house hit, Pump Up the Jam, with the two friends embracing and dancing as they took the lift.
When they got to their floor, Theakston was welcomed with a group of trumpet players.
