Phillip Schofield has given a health update after undergoing his second eye surgery in a month
(Picture: Phillip Schofield)Phillip Schofield has given a health update after undergoing a second surgery for a “debilitating” eye condition.
The This Morning presenter, 60, took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to reveal that he has now had “floaters” removed from both eyes.
Posing for a picture with his medical team, the TV favourite could be seen sporting an eye patch and medical gown as he shared his hope to be “floater free for summer”.
“Now my right eye is done! Thank you Prof Stanga and his amazing team,” he wrote alongside the image.
“If the success of my summer is to be “floater free”, that’s good enough for me.”
He had the same procedure performed on his left eye last month.
The silver-haired star first opened up about his condition on This Morning back in 2020, saying: “My retinas are not detaching, but I have debilitating eye floaters.”
It is believed that he underwent a vitrectomy, the surgery he previously described as “the only way” to help with his affliction.
“I am at the cutting edge of all this, let me tell you, because the only way to treat them is a vitrectomy, where they suck the jelly out of your eye,” he told viewers of the ITV daytime show.
Schofield shared at the time how he was hoping to be the first person in the UK to undergo a “half vitrectomy” procedure, explaining: “They are trying to pioneer a half vitrectomy which started in America – see I know a lot about this!
“You have half the vitrectomy, take the floaters out, but you don’t get a cataract. And I am hoping I might be the first person in the country to get this!”
Adding: “They drive me insane! My vision is like a filthy bathroom window drifting across my eyes, and it drives me crazy.”
