Michael Mosley set out for a walk in the Greek mountains on Wednesday afternoon.
The body of missing British television presenter Michael Mosley has been found on a Greek island after days of searching, local authorities said.
A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press that the body was found by a civilian boat on a rocky shore and that formal identification was pending.
The 67-year-old man went missing after going for a walk on the island of Symi on Wednesday afternoon.
The Associated Press also quoted the island’s mayor, Lefteris Papakalodoukas, who was on a boat with media members searching for Mosley on Sunday, the fifth day of the search, as confirming that a body believed to be Mosley’s had been found.
The mayor said the body appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, crashed into a fence and was lying face-up with several stones on top of it. The body was holding a leather bag in one hand, said Antonis Mistiroglou, a cameraman for state television ERT who was on the boat with him.
His wife, Claire Bailey Mosley, who was on the island with their four children, said in a statement she was devastated by the loss of her “wonderful, funny, kind and intelligent husband”.
She added that the couple have been “incredibly lucky” in their lives and said she is “incredibly proud” of the four children they have raised together over the years.
British media reports said the Mosley family also plans to lay flowers on Monday at the spot where Michael Mosley’s family were found.
Mosley is best known for a string of British television shows, including the BBC series “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor” and a number of documentaries about diet and exercise, including the Channel 4 show “Michael Mosley: Who Made Britain Fat?”
Mosley, who studied medicine in London, has also appeared on radio and been a columnist for the Daily Mail.
Outside the UK, in his 2013 book The Fast Diet, he advocated the so-called “5:2 diet”, which claimed quick weight loss could be achieved by minimising calorie intake on two days a week.
He also lived with tapeworms in his intestines for six weeks for the BBC documentary “Infested! Living With Parasites.”
