Greek authorities said on Thursday they were searching for prominent British journalist and TV presenter Michael Mosley, who disappeared the day before while walking on the island of Symi.
According to Greek police spokeswoman Constantina Dimoglidou, Mosley, 67, was reported missing by his wife Claire Bailey on Wednesday afternoon. The Mosleys arrived in Symi on Tuesday and planned to stay for a week.
“We are looking for him everywhere,” Ms Dimoglidou said, adding that local fire departments and volunteers were also involved in the search. explain A team of six firefighters is searching for a missing foreigner on Symi, one of the twelve Aegean islands, and said it had sent a drone from nearby Rhodes.
According to Ms. Dimoglidou, Mosley told friends on Wednesday afternoon that he was walking about two miles from the Agios Nikolaos area back to the main town of Symi where the couple lived. She said witnesses last saw him at a bus station in Pedi, about halfway between the two places, and that he did not have a mobile phone with him when he disappeared.
She said Mr. Mosley may have been dizzy because of the heat. Temperatures on Symi have hovered around 95 degrees this week, and Greece’s meteorological service has urged people to be aware of the risks of high temperatures.
“It’s a rough, uneven terrain, so he could have fallen,” said Ms. Dimolidou, whose disappearance prompted calls to local police. Facebook Groupone post said Mr Mosley had left at around 1:30pm but never showed up at his residence.
Mr. Mosley is a former doctor who became a documentary filmmaker and science journalist, offering advice on diet, fasting and other health habits. He is known for debunking diet myths and is widely known as Supporters of intermittent fastingand has written several books on the subject.
He is a long-time producer and presenter for the BBC and the broadcaster “Just one thing” Health Podcast, Nominated in 2002 The Emmy Award-winning series “Human Faces,” which explores the science behind beauty.
Most recently, he has worked with the UK broadcaster Channel 4 on two investigative series Obesity in the UK and Nutrition Behind Food Shopping Everyday consumers.
