Coronation Street’s Will Mellor shares joy and relief after undergoing life-changing surgery

Coronation Street’s Will Mellor has opened up about having ‘life changing’ eye surgery, as well as his wife’s reaction to the operation.

The actor, who plays Harvey Gaskell in the ITV soap, had lens replacement surgery due to eye deterioration.

Will, 47, revealed that his eyesight issues were starting to impact how he was feeling, and would often get partner Michelle McSween to read things when he wasn’t able to.

Discussing the aftermath of the operation, Will told the Express: ‘It’s funny because a couple of days afterwards, the eye drops bottle, the writing on it, I couldn’t read the writing before the operation and then once I had it, I picked it up and I could read it.

‘And I read it to my wife and we started jumping around the bedroom celebrating. She was like, “You can see!” The technology nowadays, what they can do in a short space of time, you’re in and out in twenty minutes.’

He added: ‘It’s life-changing, the amount of things I probably missed and not being able to see properly over the years that now I don’t miss anymore.’

Will, who hosts the podcast The Two Pints Podcast with best mate Ralf Little, features in the hugely successful ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

The actor plays Lee Castleton in the four-part series, which follows the story of former sub postmaster Alan Bates who lost his Post Office in north Wales after being accused of theft.

In what’s been known as one of the UK’s ‘biggest miscarriages of justice’, Alan discovered that he was not alone, and there were hundreds of others who had been affected by the scandal, but had done nothing wrong.

Dozens of innocent people were convicted of theft, lost their homes and went into debt, and 236 went to prison. Four people also took their own lives.

Since the drama aired, millions of people have thrown their support behind the real victims of the incident, and have been left devastated after learning of the true story.

A petition to strip ex-Post Office chief Paula Vennells, who was in leadership when the company wrongly prosecuted hundreds of its employees, of her CBE reached over 1,000,000 signatures and she eventually announced she will hand it back.