ATHENS (AP) — Police say a body believed to be that of missing British television presenter Michael Mosley was found Sunday morning on a Greek island. A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said the body was found by a civilian boat on a rocky shore and that formal identification was pending.
Mosley Missing After a walk around Symi on Wednesday afternoon.
The island’s mayor, Lefteris Papakalodoukas, told The Associated Press that he was on a boat with media personnel when he spotted the body about 20 metres (65 feet) off the coast of Agia Marina just after 10 a.m. “We zoomed in on the camera and realised it was him,” the mayor said.
The mayor said the body appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, hit 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 also on the boat.
Mosley, 67, is best known in the UK for his regular television and radio appearances and for his column in the Daily Mail. Outside the UK, he is known for his 2013 book, “The Fast Diet,” which he co-authored with journalist Mimi Spencer. The book advocates the so-called “5:2 diet,” which claims to help people lose weight quickly by minimizing their calorie intake for two days a week and eating healthy food on the other five.
He then introduced a rapid weight loss program and made a number of films about diet and exercise.
Mosley has often pushed his body to extreme limits to test the effectiveness of diets and even lived with a tapeworm in his intestine for six weeks for the BBC documentary Parasites!
Mosley has four children with his wife Clare Bailey Mosley, a doctor, author and health columnist.
