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ATHENS.- A body believed to be missing British television presenter Michael Mosley He was found this Sunday morning on a Greek island, according to the police. A private boat found the body on a rocky shore and official identification was still pending, a police spokesperson said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still open.
Mosley disappeared on Wednesday in the afternoon on the small island of Symi, in the eastern Aegean Sea, after going for a walk.
Lefteris Papakalodoukas, the island’s mayor, told The Associated Press that he was on the boat with journalists when they saw a body about 20 meters above Agia Marina beach. “We focused the cameras and saw that it was him”.
The mayor said that the body He seemed to have fallen down a steep slope until he hit a fence., and it was face down with some stones on it. The body was carrying a leather bag in one hand, said Antonis Mystiloglou, a cameraman for state television ERT, who was also on the boat.
Mosley is well known in the United Kingdom for his regular appearances on television and radio and for his column in the Daily Mail newspaper. He is known abroad for his 2013 book “The Fast Diet,” which he co-wrote with journalist Mimi Spencer. The “5:2 diet” suggests how People can lose weight fast by reducing their calorie intake two days a week and eating healthily for the other five.
He later directed a program to lose weight fast and has made several documentaries about diet and exercise.
Mosley often pushed his body to extremes to see the effects of his dietsand also lived with tapeworms in his digestive system for six weeks for a BBC documentary.
Mosley had four children with his wife, Clare Bailey Mosley.who is also a doctor, author and health columnist.
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