Takaya Honda will be returning to ‘Neighbours’ on Monday (25.02.19) after being hospitalised this week
The soap stars – who plays David Tanaka on the Australian show – was taken to hospital for a severe eye infection, but now he has revealed he is on the mend and almost ready to be back on set.
In a video shared to his Instagram Stories, Tayaka said: "Things should be all good… I should be back filming on Monday."
It means viewers should only miss him in a handful of scenes, after he revealed his swollen eye on Wednesday (20.02.19) and confirmed he was on antibiotics through a drip to battle the infection.
He explained: "Just to catch you up, I have a bad eye infection that I likely got from someone at fair day on the weekend that went from bad to worse across 24 hours.
"I saw the GP yesterday and was given antibiotic tablets and eye drops. Throughout the day my eye got more and more swollen and by this morning my eye had basically closed over."
Last September, Takaya made history on the Channel 5 show when he and co-star Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan) were involved in the country’s first on-screen gay wedding following the legalisation of same-sex marriage in 2017.
Although the timing was perfect, the actor said at the time: "This was planned from the start. There was always going to be a wedding but after the vote it meant as a happy outcome it would be the first legal marriage on screen.
"’Neighbours’ deserve that accolade, they’ve worked for years on Aaron and David’s story and had LGBT storylines other shows hadn’t done. It would’ve felt cheap if another show had stole their thunder and done it as a publicity stunt."
‘Neighbours’ airs weekdays at both 1.45pm and 5.30pm on Channel 5 in the UK, and at 6.30pm on 10 Peach in Australia.
Takaya Honda confirms Neighbours return after hospitalisation
