Ben Shephard has returned to Good Morning Britain and detailed his horror leg injuries after suffering a tumble during a football match.
The Tipping Point presenter, who often joins Susanna Reid on GMB later in the week, revealed he had ruptured his ACL, torn his meniscus and fractured his leg.
Dr Hilary referred to Ben's injury as a "nasty" one as Ben also revealed he had "severed all the nerves" and carried on playing.
Susanna told ITV viewers at home that Ben, 46, had turned up to the studio in a leg brace, as he went on to describe his injuries in full.
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Opening the show, Susanna said: "I wish I had taken a photograph in my dressing room this morning, because Ben came in with quite the get up on your leg."
"Quite the outfit, yeah," said Ben.
"You had a sort of holding device?" Susanna asked, before Ben confirmed it was a brace.
"A few weeks to go, you may remember I played in the Cup Final of the Arthur Dunn veterans cup, my old boys team," he explained.
"Without realising, I have ruptured my ACL, I've torn the meniscus and I've fractured part of my leg as well."
Dr Hilary Jones interjected: "That's a nasty injury, that is a nasty injury."
Ben revealed he wasn't aware of the extent of his injuries and carried on playing.
He said: "Interestingly I didn't realise I had done it quite so badly, I carried on playing for 25-minutes before I thought, 'It feels a little bit unstable, perhaps I should stop'.
"It turns out I had severed all the nerves which is why I couldn't feel any pain, and just carried on playing."
ITV's resident doctor later added: "Basically, this is the ligament that holds the lower leg on to the upper leg, so it's very dramatic!"
Ben replied: "It was flapping about a bit! The sad thing is it didn't affect my standard of football!"
Good Morning Britain continues weekdays at 6am on ITV.
