Adam Henson has undergone a hip operation.
Adam Henson undergoes hip operation
The 'Countryfile' presenter has gone under the knife to have damaged surfaces of the bones inside his hip joint removed and replaced, and it has made him feel for those who have gone through "an awful lot worse".
Speaking in a pre-recorded clip which aired on 'Countryfile', he said: "It’s now been pretty much 12 hours since I had my hip resurfacing operation.
"The feeling in my legs and waist have all come back now, pretty much my right leg, which is the leg I had done, is still a bit tingly and a bit weird.
"I’ve never really had surgery quite like this before, it does make me feel for all those people that have gone through things an awful lot worse.”
The 56-year-old star - who runs the Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which his father started - admitted he is fortunate to have a "strong team" who can do the work in his absence, as he recovers from his operation.
He added: "I’m very lucky to have a strong team on the farm who can do all the work. In three or four weeks' time, hopefully, I’ll be back out and about.
"It’s made me think and reflect, how do farmers get over injury or illness?"
Adam recently admitted he made a royal faux pas during a lunch with the late Queen Elizabeth - who passed away in September aged 96 - at Buckingham Palace.
He explained: "What I didn’t know, and what hadn’t been explained, is when you sit down with the royals, if they turn to the right or the left they have that conversation with that person, usually for one course. Then they will turn the other way.
"Whichever way the queen turns, everyone else turns the opposite and then everyone is having a conversation with everyone. And so to start off with she was speaking to the person to my right and I went through the whole course not speaking to her at all.
"I just didn’t know the etiquette so I wasn’t quite sure if she was ever going to talk to me. So then when we got to the next course I blurted out a question to her.
"She said, 'Adam, like you, I love my farm animals, and I love my dogs and I love the countryside.' And I think that came from the heart.
"We then had a very easy, comfortable conversation about all the things that I love, and she seemed to love too.
"We talked about the dogs, we talked about the farms and the cattle. I had recently bought a Highland Bull from Balmoral and she said to me, 'How’s Archie, the bull?' -I was just astounded, really."