Phillip Schofield sports eye patch as he shares update after procedure to treat ‘debilitating’ condition

Phillip Schofield shared he had his ‘floaters’ in his eye eliminated (Image: Getty/@schofe)

Phillip Schofield was doing his greatest pirate impression as he sported a watch patch after present process a process on Thursday.

The This Morning co-host underwent a small operation on his left eye after affected by a ‘debilitating’ eye situation that used to drive him ‘insane.’ 

The 60-year-old presenter took to his Instagram tales to offer his 3 million followers an replace about the way it went.

Phil revealed that the ‘floaters’ in his eye had been eliminated as he confirmed off a white bandage over his left eye. 

Within the first snap within the backyard, Phil wore a light-weight blue gingham shirt as he gave a small smile and revealed his short-term new look.

He wrote: ‘Lastly obtained the INCREDIBLY irritating ‘floaters’ sucked out of my left eyeball.’ 

The TV presenter sported a white bandage over his eye and made a number of pirate jokes on Instagram (image: Getty/@schofe)

He was in good spirits after the process (Image: @schofe)

Aye aye, captain Scofe! (Image: @schofe)

In a shirtless mirror selfie that displayed the presenter’s lean physique, as he posed with stickers that monitored his vitals nonetheless on his chest, he joked: ‘Er was I supposed to return house with these nonetheless on?!!’

For his closing selfie, the Dancing on Ice host popped a pirate flag emoji above his head and an image of a parrot on his shoulder to accompany his new eyepatch. 

‘Issue 50 on half my face or the patch mark will final for days,’ he penned with a laughing emoji. 

The surgical procedure comes days after Phil and Holly Willoughby started their summer time trip from This Morning (Image: Neil Mockford/GC Pictures)

In 2020, Phil spoke about his situation on the ITV daytime present and revealed: ‘My retinas aren't detaching, however I've debilitating eye floaters.’

On the time he defined: ‘I'm on the reducing fringe of all this, let me inform you, as a result of the one solution to deal with them is a vitrectomy, the place they suck the jelly out of your eye.’

Floaters

Floaters might be small darkish dots, squiggly traces or rings in your eyes. The NHS factors out that floaters and flashes of sunshine in your imaginative and prescient are frequent and normally not that critical.

Earlier than including: ‘They're attempting to pioneer a half vitrectomy which began in America – see I do know rather a lot about this! 

‘You've half the vitrectomy, take the floaters out, however you don’t get a cataract. And I'm hoping I could be the primary particular person within the nation to get this!’

He admitted they drive him ‘insane’ as he continued: ‘My imaginative and prescient is sort of a filthy rest room window drifting throughout my eyes, and it drives me loopy.’