In July, he explained: “These floaters have literally blighted my otherwise brilliant eyesight.

“For the first time in many years, right now, I’m looking at a clear blue sky, it is mood/mind and life changing for me.

“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.

“Today I have a blood shot eye that will last 2 weeks and an intense regime of eye drops for a month… but my floaters are 100% gone.”

Phil added that the treatment was “pioneering and expensive”, and that he paid full price for it.