TV star Richard Osman has told how his poor eyesight helped him cope with appearing on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? – because he couldn’t see the audience.
The Pointless presenter suffers from a nystagmus, a condition which affects eye movement and reduces vision. He said: "The world is in a big fog for me, at all times.
Even with my glasses on I’m like a normal short-sighted person. It’s unfixable. I can’t drive or anything like that, there’s very few things I can do. "But the one huge advantage of being me, and not being able to see very well, is that you can sit me in front of an audience or a crowd and it doesn't worry me because I can't see anyone more than six feet in front of me. "It really helps me to focus and has done