Coronation Street star Lisa George reveals she's been hospitalised and is battling 'low iron' - months after revealing her three stone weight-loss

Former Coronation Street star Lisa George has revealed to her Instagram followers she has been hospitalised after struggling with 'low iron'.

The soap actress, 56, shared a photograph of a cannula in her arm while receiving an iron infusions in hospital after showing signs of anaemia.

Lisa, who played Beth Tinker on the ITV show before leaving in 2024 after 13 years, shared the photo to her Instagram stories from her hospital bed.

She wrote on the image: 'Finally having the first of my iron infusions - I have pushed and pushed for this after showing anemia and low iron and haemaglobin levels.

Suggesting she had been pressing for a while to have the transfusion, she added: 'You have to shout the loudest to get anywhere!'

Lisa is set to appear in pantomime Jack And The Beanstalk over the festive season in Blackpool and Christmas film The Santa Express opposite Toyah Willcox.

Since leaving Corrie, which was partly due to health concerns, Lisa has undergone an incredible weight loss transformation as well as her eye surgery worth £8,000.

In photos taken earlier this year, Lisa couldn't look further away from her Weatherfield character as she showed off her slimmer frame and remarkably youthful appearance.

Lisa revealed how the saggy skin that was once around her eyes left her feeling 'so down' so she went under the knife and had an upper blepharoplasty and a brow lift.

The procedure removed her sagging skin that has left her eyes opening up much more and given her newfound confidence.

Speaking about how she felt before her appearance, Lisa said: 'Every time I squinted or smiled, my top lid would cover my whole eye. I'd look like I was frowning, and it'd make me feel so down.'

Lisa added to Closer magazine that because her Corrie character would wear so much eyeshadow, it would all collect in her creases and she dreaded close up shots.

She also shared plans to undergo a lower face lift to combat her hanging chin as she refuses to 'grow old gracefully with great big bin bags'.

Meanwhile, Lisa's incredible weight loss comes after she was plagued with stomach issues and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

She faced cruel trolling for her size and recalled how one decorator told her 'you look massive on telly' and she felt 'so ashamed' after piling on the pounds after going through menopause.

She has so far lost a whopping three stone after being placed on a low-FODMAP diet, which is extremely restrictive.

Lisa explained: 'As soon as I got to my fifties and menopause hit, I just piled it on.

'Eventually I saw an endocrinologist for my stomach issues, and I was put a on a low-FODMAP diet which was restrictive, but it told me what my body was having a reaction to.' 

The star added: 'The weight just fell off. I was so mad with myself that I hadn't started getting my weight under control earlier.'

Lisa previously revealed how she was diagnosed with a genetic eye condition that could see her go blind.

She has NAION - non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy - which causes sudden vision loss in one eye.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Lisa previously shared her fears of her disability could mean she may never be able to work in acting again after suffering two separate incidents that have left her visually impaired in both eyes. 

Speaking in 2024, she explained: 'I always think there are people far worse off than you, and I'm just grateful I can still see but we don't know what could happen in the future.'  

Lisa suffered her first eye 'incident' in 2016 when the heavy knot at the end of a piece of rope caught her right eye while gardening.

A few days later the sight in her right eye completely went and she ended up scraping the side of her car while driving down a narrow country lane.

She was later told that she had lost part of the sight at the bottom of her right eye and unfortunately it would never come back.

Over the next six years Lisa saw a number of eye specialists, both privately and within the NHS, as she desperately tried to find out what was going on with that right eye.

She said: 'Luckily my left eye was really good with 20/20 vision and the only thing I struggled with after that first incident was being able to read.

'Corrie were great, they printed my scripts in a bigger font to make it easier but I just wasn't getting any explanation as to what had happened. 

'I had scans, dye put into my eyeball, but the doctors were split as to whether it was the trauma from the rope or something else that had caused the haemorrhage at the back of my eye.'