Michael Mosley: body found in search of missing TV presenter

ATHENS (AP) — Police say a body believed to be that of missing British television presenter Michael Mosley was found on a Greek island early Sunday. A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to an ongoing investigation, said the body was found on a rocky coast by a private boat and a positive identification was being made. in progress.

Mosley has disappeared on the island of Symi Wednesday afternoon after a walk.

Lefteris Papakalodoukas, the island's mayor, told The Associated Press that he was on the boat with media representatives when they saw a body about 20 meters above Agia Beach. Marina. “We zoomed in with the cameras and saw it was him,” he said.

The mayor said the body appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, coming to rest 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, 67, is well known in Britain for his regular appearances on television and radio and for his column in the Daily Mail newspaper. He is known outside the UK for his 2013 book “The Fast Diet”, which he co-wrote with journalist Mimi Spencer. The book proposed the so-called “5:2 diet,” which promised to help people lose weight quickly by minimizing their calorie intake two days a week while eating healthily the other five days.

He then followed a rapid weight loss program and made numerous films about diet and exercise.

Mosley often pushed his body to extremes to see the effects of his diet and also lived with tapeworms in his guts for six weeks for the BBC documentary “Infested!” Living with parasites.

Mosley has four children with his wife Clare Bailey Mosley, who is also a physician, author and health columnist.