The well-known British doctor and TV presenter who disappeared on the Greek island of Simi, Michael Mosley, was found dead this morning in a rocky area near the sea: the deputy mayor of the island, Nikitas Grillis, told the news agency Reuters, which reports the news on its website.
Mosley, 67, had not been heard from since last Wednesday, after he went out for a walk along the coast in the afternoon. “The mayor of the island and a journalist from state TV ERT were filming the Agia Marina area when they spotted the body,” Grillis said. A police official said the body was found in a rocky area near the sea, denying previous reports that it had been found in a cave.
Mosley, known in the UK for his regular appearances on television and radio, for his newspaper column Daily Mail and some collaborations with BBC, he disappeared on Wednesday afternoon, after taking a walk. Lefteris Papakalodoukas, the island’s mayor, told The Associated Press that while he was on a boat with media representatives, they saw a body about 20 meters above the beach of Agia Marina. “We zoomed in with the cameras and saw that it was him,” he specified. The mayor added that the man appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, coming to rest against a fence. According to what a TV cameraman reported Ertwho was on the same boat, the man had a leather bag with him.
Mosley is known outside the UK for his 2013 book The Fast Diet, which he co-authored with journalist Mimi Spencer. The book proposed the so-called “5:2 diet,” which promised to help people lose weight quickly by minimizing calorie intake two days a week and eating healthily the other five. Mosley often pushed his body to extreme measures to see the effects of his diet and even lived with tapeworms in his bowels for six weeks for the BBC documentary, Infested! Living With Parasites. Mosley has four children with wife Clare Bailey Mosley.
