The TV presenter is rarely seen being anything less than positive on screen, or on social media, in spite of suffering a marriage break-up. But she confessed: “Sometimes I’m faking it. Sometimes I’m struggling and there have been a few occasions in my life where I’m struggling to see any positives in this at all. “AA Gill said, ‘You can let it ruin your lunch, but don’t let it ruin your dinner’. I thought that’s a brilliant way of looking at it.
“I love it when I’m happy, but I’m not always happy. It might look like I’m always happy because I often just show the bits when I’m happy.
“But I am often guilty of thinking, ‘No one really wants to see me when I’m unhappy’. “I posted [on social media] on Christmas day about loneliness and it wasn’t that I was massively lonely, but I did think it’s a tough day Christmas.
“I just thought, I’m gonna say this and it’s Christmas and no one will probably see it.
“It’s funny when you do put yourself out there a bit, you get good stuff back. It’s scary putting yourself out there.”
The 51-year-old, who is currently single, split from her husband of 17 years, Matthew Robertson, in 2017. They are parents to Holly, 17, Tilly, 15, and 12-year-old Chester. After more than 20 years on television, the veteran presenter says she is heading to “Cilla” status.
She said: “Every day is a lucky day that I’m still in TV because I’m probably one of the oldest female TV presenters.
“I’m a bit of a Cilla. I am heading to Cilladom where I’m [a] slightly older female presenter on TV.” Speaking to co-host Fearne Cotton, 37, in her podcast Happy Place, Davina also confessed to putting make-up on before doing the school run in recent years.
She insisted: “I used to think, ‘Who gets dressed up for the school run?’. But I now look at that in a slightly different way and actually I do it to make myself feel better.
“I’m not getting dressed up to impress the other mums, of course I’m not. I’m doing it for me because I look in the mirror and go, ‘Oh yeah that looks a bit better’.
“At one point I wanted to get a nose job and now I think back to that person and I think, ‘What the **** was I thinking? I love my nose.’ It’s funny. You go through things, ‘I hate it. I look like a puffin’. “Jon Snow looked down at me and said, ‘You really have a lovely nose’. That’s all I needed to hear. I now love my nose.”
She added: “I feel amazing. I just want to look good for 50. I am happy with that. I don’t want to look your age, Fearne. I’m not your age. I just want to look good for my own age. Fitness is a big part of that but there are other factors for me to feel good.”