Former EastEnders star Danny Dyer has revealed he intends to undergo surgery on his testicle.
The actor, who is known for his role as Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter on the BBC soap, has been suffering from a hydrocele.
The NHS describes a hydrocele as a ‘fluid-filled sack along the spermatic cord within the scrotum’, which results in ‘a painless, swollen scrotum, on one or both sides, that feels like a water-filled balloon’.
Danny described having a ‘big nut’ that he needs to ‘get done’ while discussing the condition with his daughter and former Love Island winner Dani Dyer on their podcast Live And Let Dyers.
‘I need to get it done…have a reduction on my winkle,’ he said. ‘Well, it’s just too big. My big nut, yeah. I do need to get that [done].’
Danny said his dad had ‘always been on his case’ about it as he’d had the condition himself.
‘[He was] like, “Listen, you’ve got to get that b****** done, it ain’t right.” You know… “God didn’t make you that way.”’
However, Danny claimed there had been ‘conflicting’ messaging from his dad after he had the operation himself.
He said: ‘I think he went to some sort of backstreet doctor in Custom House. Yeah, he didn’t want to pay for it.
‘He had the operation and then he went to me, “Don’t get it done, don’t get it done! I can’t sit down!”,’ the Rivals actor explained.
But Danny insisted it is ‘something that I will get done eventually’.
The surgery involves an incision being made in the scrotum before the fluid is drained and the hydrocele sac either everted or sewn up so that it cannot reform, the NHS says.
The procedure is usually done as a day case using general or local anaesthesia, and patients can expect to recover in two to three weeks.
Danny’s final scenes as EastEnders’ Mick Carter aired in 2022, when Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) came to the horrifying realisation he had been swept out to sea and he is now presumed dead – although his body has never been recovered, leaving the door open for a potential comeback.
He recently revealed to Metro that he was more than happy to return to the BBC soap for its forthcoming 40th anniversary – but bosses ‘missed the boat’.
He said: ‘I get this [requests for a return] every day still, and it’s a very much a compliment to me. I think that people still give a f***,’ he reasoned. ‘So look, they haven’t asked me. That’s all I can say. You know, I would have gone back for the 40th, I’ve said this many times, but they didn’t ask me to do that. I think they’ve got some other plans.
‘And so I think, because I’m not coming back for 40th I think I missed the boat – it needs to be something special, I think, for Mick to come back.’
