Body found on Greek island believed to be that of missing British TV presenter | News

Michael Mosley went for a walk in a mountainous area of ​​Greece on Wednesday afternoon.

A days-long search for missing British television presenter Michael Mosley has turned up a body on a Greek island, according to local authorities.

A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to an ongoing investigation, told the Associated Press news agency that the body was found on a rocky shore by a boat private and that official identification was in progress.

The 67-year-old disappeared on Wednesday afternoon on the island of Symi after going for a walk.

His wife, Clare Bailey Mosley, who was on the island with their four children, alerted authorities after he did not return or respond after several hours.

The AP also cited Lefteris Papakalodoukas, the island's mayor who was on a boat with media representatives searching for Mosley on Sunday – the fifth day of the search – as confirming that the body believed to belong to Mosley had been found.

The mayor said the deceased appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, stopping against a fence and lying face up with some rocks on top. The body was holding a leather bag in one hand, said Antonis Mystiloglou, a cameraman for public broadcaster ERT, who was also on the boat.

Mosley is best known for a series of British television programs, including the BBC series Trust Me, I'm a Doctor and a number of documentaries on diet and exercise, including the Channel 4 show Michael Mosley : Who Made Britain Fat?.

Mosley, who studied medicine in London, also made radio appearances and was a columnist for the Daily Mail newspaper.

Outside the UK, for his 2013 book The Fast Diet, which proposed the so-called “5:2 diet”, which promised to help people lose weight quickly by minimizing their calorie intake two days a week .

He also lived with tapeworms in his guts for six weeks for the BBC documentary Infested! Living with parasites.