Jamie Oliver, Peter Andre and Kaye Adams lead heartfelt tributes to ‘wonderful’ Dr Michael Mosley – after body is found in search

Jamie Oliver led the heartfelt tributes to ‘great’ Dr Michael Mosley, after his physique was discovered on the Greek island of Symi on Sunday.

Among the many stars sharing their condolences on social media, Peter Andre and Kaye Adams all paid respects to a ‘great man’ amid the devastating information.

Greek police confirmed they’d discovered the Mail columnist’s physique following a treacherous five-day search within the searing warmth.

Katie Worth, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Piers Morgan, Ranvir Singh and Ulrika Jonsson have additionally paid tribute on their Instagram.

Chef Jamie wrote: ‘Relaxation in peace Michael Mosley…. Completely devastating information concerning the unhappy lack of fellow television presenter Micheal Mosley at present. What a splendidly candy, variety and delicate man he was. 

‘He did so many good for public well being along with his TV exhibits and analysis. He was a curious investigator, producer and presenter and sometimes modified the dialog round many public well being points for the higher. 

‘He shall be sadly missed….love and ideas to Claire and all of his household, jamie o xx’

Unfastened Ladies’s Kaye Adams penned: ‘So unhappy to listen to the information about Dr Michael Moseley. We actually have misplaced one of many good guys. 

‘I’ve interviewed him numerous instances through the years and he was at all times the same- variety, fascinating, and heat. Heartfelt condolences to his family members’

Sharing an image of Dr Mosley, Peter wrote: ‘Completely devastating. An exquisite human being.’

GMB presenter Ranvir Singh wrote: ‘Terribly unhappy information. Thanks for altering the lives of hundreds of individuals – together with mine – for the higher.’

Piers Morgan wrote: ‘Physique present in seek for TV physician Michael Mosley on Greek island of Symi. Very unhappy improvement.’ 

‘That is very unhappy information. I interviewed Michael Mosley just a few instances about his Fast800 food plan and he was a fully beautiful man. My condolences to his household’, Speak TV’s Julia wrote.

Dr Mosley’s spouse Clare Bailey, who shares 4 youngsters with the TV physician, stated: ‘I do not know fairly the place to start with this. It is devastating to have misplaced Michael, my great, humorous, variety and sensible husband. 

‘We had an extremely fortunate life collectively. We cherished one another very a lot and have been so joyful collectively. I’m extremely pleased with our youngsters, their resilience and assist over the previous days.

‘My household and I’ve been massively comforted by the outpouring of affection from folks from world wide. It is clear that Michael meant an enormous quantity to so lots of you.

‘We’re taking consolation in the truth that he so very practically made it. He did an unimaginable climb, took the improper route and collapsed the place he could not be simply seen by the in depth search crew.

‘Michael was an adventurous man, it is a part of what made him so particular. We’re so grateful to the extraordinary folks on Symi who’ve labored tirelessly to assist discover him. 

‘A few of these folks on the island, who hadn’t even heard of Michael, labored from daybreak until nightfall unasked. We’re additionally very grateful to The Press who’ve handled us with nice respect.’ 

Dr Bailey, who was married to the TV physician for practically 40 years, added: ‘I really feel so fortunate to have our youngsters and my wonderful pals. Most of all, I really feel so fortunate to have had this life with Michael. Thanks all x.’ 

Dr Mosley’s physique was found in a rocky space beside Agia Marina at present after an in depth search operation led by emergency employees, round half-hour stroll from the village of Pedi the place Dr Mosley was final seen.

The physician was with pals at Agios Nikolaos seaside on Wednesday earlier than going alone for a stroll to the centre of the island.

Petros Vassilakis, a senior police official, confirmed ‘it is him’, whereas sources stated the daddy was recognized by his private objects and garments.

Ted Verity, Editor of Mail Newspapers, stated: ‘Everybody on the Mail is totally devastated to listen to of the dying of Dr Michael Mosley.

‘Michael wasn’t only a distinctive and unmissable columnist. He was a part of the Mail household.

‘Since he first wrote for us in 2011, we have now revealed lots of of his weekly columns and serialised lots of his best-selling books – from the ground-breaking quick diets to others on intestine well being and sleep.

‘It is no exaggeration to say that through the years Michael’s insights – particularly his revelation that you simply CAN reverse sort two diabetes – can have prolonged, and even saved, the lives of numerous readers.

‘In particular person, whether or not warning of the perils of skimmed milk or enthusing about his newest madcap experiment on his personal physique, Michael was as electrifying as he was in print and on TV.

‘What shone by way of was his irrepressible curiosity – he was at all times hungry to be taught concerning the very newest, cutting-edge science and drugs after which clarify it to readers in a means that was each participating and understandable to a mainstream viewers.

‘Michael was additionally extraordinarily variety, not hesitating to be one of many first to supply his house as sanctuary to a Ukrainian household.

‘And he at all times spoke with monumental love and heat of his spouse Clare, his co-author on many tasks, and 4 youngsters Alexander, Jack, Daniel and Katherine.

‘Our hearts exit to all of them.’

Police arrived at Agia Marina round 20 minutes after the physique was found mendacity face up about 90 metres from the shoreline. At round 2.09pm native time, firefighters arrived on the marina by boat and carried an orange stretcher and enormous black bag to the place the physique was discovered.

Different folks sporting plain garments acquired off the white velocity boat and took briefcases up the rocky hill.

After round half an hour a celebration of six firefighters rigorously gathered Dr Mosley’s physique and positioned it onto the orange stretcher.

It was then taken all the way down to a jetty and loaded onto a small white tender and brought away to a mortuary on the island of Rhodes for a postmortem.

Two forensic officers remained on the scene analyzing the world the place the physique was discovered and the refused to remark as they left.

It earlier emerged that Dr Mosley’s grown-up youngsters Alex, Jack, Dan and Kate have been simply 350ft away from the place the physique was discovered after they retraced their father’s steps yesterday.

It appeared the Mail columnist had walked across the perimeter of the seaside bar at Agia Marina and was heading in direction of the ocean.

Temperatures on the time have been round 37c and although he had a bottle of water with him the warmth would have made it extremely tough.

It appeared that he might have been attempting to succeed in the ocean as his physique was only a few toes from the shore. A supply stated the distinctive umbrella he had been carrying on the time was near him.

On the time of his disappearance there was an extreme warmth warning from the Greek Meteorological workplace, with temperatures predicted to hit a blistering 38c – uncommon for early June.

Police on the lookout for Dr Mosley are investigating the invention of a physique near an space often known as The Abyss.

The physique was discovered by a waiter at a close-by seaside bar after being alerted by the mayor who noticed one thing ‘uncommon’ from the seat. The physique was discovered at Agia Marina round half-hour stroll from Pedi the place he was final seen.

Waiter Ilias Tsavaris stated he had been despatched up to take a look following the mayor’s alert when he noticed the ‘glint from a watch’ and a physique.  

On Saturday a Greek fireplace brigade helicopter hovered overhead the spot the place the physique was discovered.

Police arrived round 20 minutes after it had been found – round 100 metres from the shoreline.

A short time later a coastguard boat arrived and anchored simply off the seaside whereas a small tender with extra officers to the scene.

Mayor Eleftherios Papakaloudoukas had accompanied media to Agia Marina however was on his means again to Pedi when he seemed again and noticed one thing uncommon on the rocks.

He then referred to as the seaside restaurant and alerted workers who rushed over in direction of what he had seen with a gaggle of British journalists who had remained behind.

Officers stated the coroner had been knowledgeable and was travelling to Symi from Rhodes. 

The waiter who discovered the physique, Mr Tsavaris, stated: ‘The mayor had been right here to offer interviews to the media after which left on a ship to return to Pedi.

‘From the ocean he noticed one thing uncommon after which he referred to as the restaurant and requested them to test it out.

‘I used to be despatched up there and as I turned the fence to go up I noticed a glint from a watch and I then I noticed the physique on the similar time.’ 

On Saturday MailOnline was on the Agia Marina and watched as the hearth brigade helicopter swooped low over the world the place the physique was however did not spot it.

In one other weird twist a police officer on the scene suffered a suspected damaged leg as he jumped from a wall near the physique and needed to be carried away on a stretcher.

A serious operation was launched to seek out the physician after he vanished whereas mountaineering alone in blistering 36C (97F) warmth on Wednesday.

His spouse Dr Clare Bailey, 62, raised the alarm when he didn’t return house by 7.30pm and native authorities started tracing his route in a single day. 

Dr Mosley, 67, was one among Britain’s finest identified medics, whose revolutionary food plan recommendation made him beloved by hundreds of thousands of Day by day Mail readers and TV viewers.

Identified for his open nature and effervescent persona, he achieved worldwide renown for popularising the 5:2 food plan and launched a string of best-selling books.  

Police first filed a lacking particular person report for Dr Mosley at 10.30am on Thursday and by noon every of the emergency providers in Greece had joined the search on the tiny island of Symi. 

The medic was seen leaving Saint Nicholas seaside in direction of the city of Pedi, through a rocky path with steep sections.

CCTV footage confirmed him passing a café within the city, northeast of the vacation island of Symi.

Police believed Dr Mosley was probably mountaineering in direction of the city of Symi, due west of Pedi, however took a improper flip and ended up on a ‘harmful’ mountain path heading north.

The coastguard scoured the ocean as the hearth brigade searched the distant island’s forests and hills – with volunteers additionally aiding with the hassle.

On Saturday, Dr Mosley’s 4 youngsters arrived on the island to hitch the searches.

Mosley’s spouse, Dr ClareBailey, had been looking the island joined by her British pals.

Earlier, investigators had questioned restaurant house owners and shopkeepers okay the picturesque fishing village and examined CCTV footage.

Hopes have been raised after a person matching his description and sporting the identical garments was noticed strolling alongside the waterside at round 4.30pm on Wednesday with a girl.

Police and Dr Bailey rushed to the Katsaras restaurant to take a look at the footage and regardless of the wonderful similarity it was dominated out after she stated it was not her husband.

Dr Mosley and his spouse landed on the 25-square-mile island on Tuesday and have been resulting from keep for per week with a pair who’ve a home in Symi City.

The 2 {couples} took a ship up the coast on Wednesday morning. They stopped at Saint Nicholas seaside the place the food plan physician, a father of 4, went for a swim within the sea earlier than deciding to stroll the two.2 miles again house at 1.30pm.

He had left his cellphone at their pals’ house, and when Dr Bailey and the couple returned to the property, they discovered that Dr Mosley had not returned and his cellular was the place he left it.

After the alarm was raised, a girl reported seeing Dr Mosley strolling previous a bus cease in Pedi, midway between Saint Nicholas seaside and Symi City. There have been additionally claims he was seen speaking to somebody.

Symi mayor Lefteris Papakalodoukas stated the world the place the presenter went lacking was thought of ‘tough as it’s fairly rocky’.

‘He got here again from the seaside, some folks noticed him however then his tracks have been misplaced,’ he stated, including that Dr Mosley ‘needed to stroll again from the seaside, however that is a distance of about an hour and a half and there are shortcuts he might have taken’.

Mr Papakalodoukas added: ‘The British broadcaster has come for vacation along with his spouse and is being hosted by a few their pals on our island. We all know he had gone for a swim… however as a result of he likes mountaineering and the world, he (determined he) would stroll again.

‘Some witnesses stated he was seen returning to Pedi and speaking to a different particular person. All of those are testimonies which can be being investigated for the time being.’

Mr Papakalodoukas advised the native paper, Kathimerini, that the excessive temperatures on the island on Wednesday have been ‘insufferable’ and that ‘one may simply faint in such circumstances’. An extreme warmth warning was issued by the Greek meteorological service on the day Mr Mosley went lacking.

Born in Calcutta, India, Dr Mosley attended boarding faculty in England earlier than studying PPE at Oxford. He tried his hand at funding banking however retrained as a physician earlier than becoming a member of the BBC as an assistant trainee producer. 

He married Clare Bailey in 1987, after assembly in medical faculty, they usually had 4 youngsters collectively. 

Dr Mosley made a string of science and historical past documentaries over 25 years, rising to develop into a presenter and an government producer on the company.

In his journalistic profession he has labored alongside the likes of John Cleese, Jeremy Clarkson, Professor Robert Winston and Sir David Attenborough.

His profession on display was spent difficult stale concepts, bringing his abilities of wit, gusto and lateral considering to testing theories – typically on himself.   

His sense of journey and unquenchable scientific curiosity generally led him to place himself at risk accidentally, though – as but – there isn’t any means of realizing if this irrepressible aspect to his character contributed in any method to his disappearance.

On one earlier vacation, he ended up in hospital with whole reminiscence loss, because of a fascination with the well being advantages of utmost chilly. After interviewing the Dutch guru Wim Hof, who advocates immersing the physique in ice-cold water, he determined to check the idea on himself.

At first he started turning the faucet to ‘chilly’ in his bathe and enduring the blast for 40 seconds.

Then, after researching the science extra deeply, he started to experiment with volunteers — testing the totally different ache thresholds of topics by asking them to plunge their fingers into ice buckets, for instance.

As with all his analysis, he by no means requested anybody to aim a trial that he had not achieved himself.

Then catastrophe struck. On a household vacation to Cornwall in 2021, he went out on a ship along with his spouse, Dr Clare Bailey — additionally a Day by day Mail columnist — and determined to swim again to shore. The chilly Atlantic waters despatched his nervous system into shock.

‘I believed, I will beat Clare again to shore,’ he recalled final 12 months. ‘The subsequent factor I do know, I am in casualty. Apparently I’ve swum again, Clare has caught up, however I used to be trying actually vacant and I clearly had no concept who she is or who I’m or the place I’m. Although I stored on repeating: ‘I’ve a spouse and 4 youngsters.’

‘I acquired an intensive examination and the marketing consultant stated: ‘You might have one thing referred to as transient international amnesia, which is comparatively uncommon — nevertheless it’s introduced on by swimming in chilly water.’

‘It is attributable to a change in blood strain and blood movement to the mind. My reminiscence banks have been fully wiped for about two or three hours after which regularly got here again.’

Regardless of this, he continued to experiment with ice-cold showers. 

Dr Mosley is maybe finest identified for selling the 5:2 idea — the novel concept that, by fasting on two days per week, it was attainable to eat usually on the opposite 5 (and even take pleasure in sugary, fatty treats) and drop some pounds in dramatic model.

Pressured into hunger mode, the physique begins burning its personal fats to outlive — in order that extra energy move by way of the system as an alternative of turning to flab.

Although initially greeted by most nutritionists with scepticism, who dismissed the food plan as too good to be true, the tactic proved spectacularly profitable for Dr Mosley himself.

His ebook The Quick Weight loss program, co-written with journalist Mimi Spencer and revealed in 2012, really useful a stringent regime on two days per week, with simply 600 energy for males and 500 for girls.

Celebrities who adopted it reported astonishing outcomes. The US comic Jimmy Kimmel shed 25 lb (practically 2 st) in just a few months. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch used the tactic to realize his hollow-cheeked search for the BBC1 drama Sherlock.

Dr Mosley first determined to analyze the food plan after a blood check revealed he was within the early levels of sort 2 diabetes.

‘That was a nasty shock,’ he stated, ‘as a result of my obese dad had developed diabetes in his 50s and died of diabetes-related diseases on the comparatively younger age of 74. I did not wish to go down the identical path.

‘So I got down to discover out if there was a drug-free method to ‘treatment’ my diabetes. Periodic fasting sounded so fascinating that I persuaded the BBC to let me make a science documentary with myself because the guinea pig. It was referred to as Eat, Quick And Dwell Longer.’

The programme, proven as a part of BBC2’s documentary sequence Horizon, featured interviews with consultants reminiscent of Professor Valter Longo from the College of Southern California and Dr Krista Varady from the College of Illinois.

That grew to become the template for a sequence of exhibits, bolstered by the exceptional private success of his 5:2 food plan — he misplaced 20 lb and his blood sugar ranges fell to regular, protected ranges.

‘This was revolutionary stuff,’ he stated, ‘as most docs consider sort 2 diabetes is incurable and that the one method to deal with it’s with medication.’

His outcomes have been so dramatic that the NHS web site, which had initially dismissed 5:2 as a ‘fad food plan’, added it to its ‘High Diets evaluation’, and stated: ‘Sticking to a routine for 2 days per week might be extra achievable than seven days, so chances are you’ll be extra prone to persevere and drop some pounds.’

Dr Mosley grew to become an evangelist for the tactic, selling it on this newspaper.

Additional analysis revealed what made the regime so efficient, he stated. ‘The primary cause I managed to knock my diabetes on the pinnacle was that I had misplaced a number of weight, quick. Professor Roy Taylor, a diabetes specialist at Newcastle College, has achieved research exhibiting that in case you lose over 10 per cent of your physique weight (which I had), the fats is drained out of your liver and pancreas, and your physique is restored to its former well being.’

He refined the food plan, elevating the calorie restrict to 800 on quick days, and urging folks to go 14 hours a day with out consuming — having a night meal at 6 pm, for instance, after which fasting till breakfast at 8 am. For individuals who wanted a crash food plan, he really useful 800 energy day-after-day for weeks and even months.

All this flew within the face of conventional recommendation, which was based mostly on reducing out fat and carbohydrates, and limiting calorie consumption with out really fasting.

Identified for his open nature, Dr Mosley didn’t draw back from discussing the worst menace to his well being — continual insomnia, attributable to stress in addition to a genetic predisposition. ‘I undergo from catastrophic considering,’ he advised the Mail 5 years in the past.

‘I used to fret concerning the youngsters after they have been youthful. Now that they’ve all turned out OK, I fear about my work — did I say the improper factor on a chat present, write the improper factor in a ebook? What if somebody loses an excessive amount of weight and makes themselves ailing? My work is completely rooted in science, however persons are folks they usually can do loopy issues.’

Insomnia grew to become such a burden that he revealed a ebook, 4 Weeks To Higher Sleep, detailing all of the techniques he had tried. His conclusion was that what mattered most was not what number of hours we spend in mattress, however the high quality of the sleep itself — what he referred to as ‘your sleep effectivity’.

Lengthy hours of wakefulness and a pure inclination to philosophy compelled him to confront life’s hardest questions.

He generally talked to journalists with attribute insouciance about dying: ‘I wish to die browsing or sky‑diving. I would not thoughts falling off my bike and going beneath a bus both, one thing brief and sharp — with apologies to the driving force.

‘Would I ever kill myself? I’d not rule it out. I can think about issues going badly improper, a catastrophic sickness, a stroke, a most cancers. I’d not wish to be a burden however it could completely depend upon Clare. It is a resolution I’d take together with her.’

Dr Mosley’s enthusiasm was legendary. One buddy stated: ‘Michael by no means stops speaking. He is like a podcast on legs.’

Filming a section on the physiology of worry for one amongst his dozens of exhibits, he defied his claustrophobia by going caving — and have become wedged in a crack within the rocks.

‘I completely freaked,’ he admitted. ‘It clearly made good tv as a result of there was a number of screaming.’

After that, although, he felt uncomfortable even in lifts and planes, and was unable to undergo with an MRI mind examination inside a coffin-like scanner.

For a documentary referred to as The Great World Of Blood, he made and ate a black pudding utilizing his personal purple corpuscles.

‘I do not suppose it’ll take off as a nationwide dish,’ he introduced, ‘nevertheless it’s fairly nutritious — wealthy in iron, protein and vitamin C.’

Regardless of his self-proclaimed ‘squareness’, he ingested psilocybin, the lively ingredient in magic mushrooms, in a laboratory-controlled check to find its impact on the mind — ‘Like going into hyperdrive on Star Trek,’ he concluded.

All these programmes have been sideshows, nevertheless, in comparison with the good mission of his profession, the fasting food plan.

‘I am 100 per cent evangelical about this,’ he typically declared. ‘One of many large medical myths is {that a} quick food plan will not work. However all of the proof now could be that speedy weight reduction is efficient. Persons are very on this stuff. They know it might alter the trajectory of their life.’

Numerous followers have had their lives remodeled by his enthusiasm, his free-thinking and eccentric readiness to take dangers. Assembly them was one of many nice pleasures of his life, he stated.

‘I like chatting. Individuals typically cease me on the street, and I actually get pleasure from discovering out what is going on on with them. It is a incredible feeling when folks let you know that you’ve helped to show their lives round.’