Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway admitted she was embarrassed after a hospital dash for her eye problem on Thursday.
Kate had been spotted wearing glasses due to an agonising mystery eye condition that had been bugging her, and she went to a specialist eye hospital.
She told her co host Ben Shephard a team of eye nurses gave her eye numbing drops and examined her eye, baffled as to what the issue was.
They eventually realised it was actually a small piece of contact lens that had got lodged behind her eye and it had been stuck there for six days.
Kate laughed as she revealed she was mortified and had no idea she had not taken her contact lens out properly.
"It turned out to be an extraordinarily complicated medical problem,” she joked.
"A team of eye nurses were absolutely baffled, but after some eye numbing drops so I wasn’t a big girls’ blouse, it was actually a contact lens stuck up in the top of my eye, it had been there for about six days!”
She burst out laughing.
I thought I had taken it out but there was a sneaky bit remaining.
"I feel a little bit embarrassed, like I had taken up people’s time just of being untidy,” she added.
She said she was not supposed to be wearing contact lenses for some time after her treatment, but that she could not resist wearing them for the show.
Ben joked that the viewers should contact Kate after the show to remind her to take her lenses out.
Kate’s daughter Darcy had to help set her mum’s alarm afterwards because her pupils were so dilated she could not see properly.
She wondered if it would be Darcy’s chance to get “revenge” and set her alarm to an earlier time.
* Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am
