Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason, 83, reveals bionic body part he’s had fitted
Sir David Jason has been fitted with bionic eyes to make him stop weeping uncontrollably.
The 83-year-old actor, who played Del Boy on the BBC’s Only Fools and Horses sitcom from 1981 to 2003, was forced to pull out of a convention earlier this month due to his health.
At the time he said he was undergoing surgery to have a ‘bionic body part fitted’ but didn’t want to specify exactly what it was as it might make his fans ‘all want one’.
But he’s now revealed more details, sharing the bionic body parts were …eyes.
Posting on social media he explained that he had needed a ‘canalicular bypass’.
‘Stay with me, it’s not quite as painful it sounds,’ he continued.
‘The canal in-question was in my eye, where a little blockage had started causing it to get a bit weepy.
‘You can sort that out pretty straightforwardly by having Jones tubes inserted.’
He joked that when speaking to an eye specialist ‘the ghost of my early years as a jobbing electrician awoke’, as reported by the Daily Star.
Sir David then explained: ‘Jones tubes do a very good job but have one drawback – they tend to come out. I found myself standing there, saying, “You want to get a flange on that, mate”.
‘Two years later, I was back for a re-fit and the doctor was showing me the latest tubes hot out of the factory – and they had flanges on, to hold them in place a bit better.
