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Dr Hilary Jones has revealed the painful-looking injury he suffered after returning back to work following surgery.
The TV doctor, 71, frequently appears on Lorraine, and returned to the daytime programme on Thursday after taking some time away for his health.
Sharing an update with viewers, he revealed he was stuck in a boot for a few more weeks after undergoing an operation.
‘We’ve missed you!’ host Lorraine Kelly welcomed him back to the show with.
She went on: ‘We can see the evidence of why you’ve not been here.’
Lifting his foot encased in the boot onto the table, Dr Hilary explained: ‘I had a little disagreement with my Achilles tendon and a little bony spur attached at the back of my heel, so that had to be gone.’
Dr Hilary Jones is back! (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
He had been away from the show after needing surgery (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
He then showed a painful-looking image of his heel stitched up after the surgery, with the wound running along his heel, and his foot looking very swollen.
‘Doctors don’t make good patients,’ he went on. ‘But it does remind us what it is like to be a patient, which is not a bad thing.’
He added that he’s ‘on the mend’ and ‘feels fine’ with ‘no pain’.
‘I come out of high heels in about two weeks,’ he told Lorraine.
He’s in his ‘high heel’ for a little while longer (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Ouch! (Picture: ITV)
‘It’s driving me crazy but I can actually shower now so I’m clean, which is good.’
He added that he’ll soon be able to drive after ‘hobbling about’ but is enjoying his return to TV roles.
This comes after Dr Hilary revealed he suffers from gout, a type of arthritis that causes sudden, severe joint pain.
Dr Hilary also recently revealed he suffered with gout over the festive period (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
He recently said: ‘Gout affects around 2.5% or one in 40 people in the UK, and men more than women. Unfortunately, this Christmas I was one of them.
The prevalence of gout has been steadily increasing over the last century and is forecast to increase further by more than 70% in the next 30 years largely due to an ageing population.’
Sharing advice for others, he continued, according to Nottinghamshire Live: ‘Anyone who has previously been diagnosed with gout will know exactly what the symptoms are, but anyone experiencing it for the first time might attribute it to something else and suffer in silence.
‘My advice, if in doubt, would be to get a do-it-yourself test done as quickly as possible, as I did.’
Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV1.
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