A cameraman “saw something strange near the fence, 50 metres from the sea”, ERT reporter Aristides Miaoulis said on air.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n“We discovered it was this man\u2026 he was lying down (on his back).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Symi’s mayor Lefteris Papakalodoukas was also with the crew and confirmed they had found Mosley, who had been vacationing on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s the body of the journalist that we have been looking for over several days,” he told ERT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authorities had on Friday announced they were stepping up the search after the Briton was last seen alive on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His wife Clare Bailey alerted police that evening when he failed to return from a coastal walk on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Papakalodoukas said Symi has been baking under “insufferable heat” and the area where Mosley was last sighted was “difficult because it’s very rocky”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much of Greece has seen record temperatures for the first week of June, reaching 39.3 degrees Celsius (103 degrees Fahrenheit) on Symi, which is close to Rhodes and western Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom Watson, a former deputy leader of the UK’s main opposition Labour party who lost weight with the help of one of Mosley’s books, paid tribute to a “hero” who produced “courageous, science-based journalism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mosley’s co-presenter on the BBC programme “Trust Me, I’m A Doctor”, Saleyha Ahsan, told BBC News he had a “passion” for making science “accessible to anyone and everyone”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mosley trained as a doctor after working as an investment banker and joined the BBC as a trainee producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went on to make science and history documentaries and in the past decade carved out a niche as a health guru in front of the camera and as the author of best-selling diet books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The health journalist, credited with popularising the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet, appeared on TV programmes including “The One Show” and “This Morning”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A British diet guru and TV journalist Michael Mosley was found dead on Sunday on the Greek island of Symi where he went missing this week, police said. “People on a boat saw a body close to the rocky coast,” said Petros Vassilakis, police chief for the southern Aegean region. The lifeless body was spotted…<\/p>\n