'I nearly cried' Phillip Schofield shares his joy after having 'terrible' floaters removed

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60-year-old posted a shirtless snap post-operation in which he also wore an eyepatch. With the caption: "Finally got the incredibly frustrating floaters sucked out of my left eyeball" the star looked smug and relieved to have had the surgery he so desperately wanted.

Another mirror shot showed electrode stickers decorating the presenter's bare chest as he quipped: "Er. . . Was I supposed to come home with these still on?" Bombarded with thousands of questions from his three million Instagram followers, most recently Schofield wrote a lengthy caption giving more details about the surgery and Professor Stanga who carried it out.

Describing the condition as "debilitating," the star's attitude towards his floaters was clear. He went on to add: "People who don't have terrible floaters won't understand what they do to your head and until now they really haven't been taken seriously. "The National Eye Institute describes floaters as "small dark shapes that float across your vision".

They can be spots, threads, squiggly lines or even little cobwebs. Although for many people floaters come and go, for others they can be a sign of a more serious eye condition.