Early Sunday morning, a body believed to be Mosley’s was found in a rocky area close to the sea and a beach bar near Agia Marina in Symi, Reuters reports.
He was found lying with his face up and his head on a rock, ERT reported, according to Reuters.
“It’s devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband,” Mosley’s wife, Dr. Clare Bailey Mosley, said in a statement, according to Reuters. “We had an incredibly lucky life together. We loved each other very much.”
The 67-year-old father-of-four went missing on Wednesday after setting off on a walk from Agios Nikolaos beach.
Tributes have been pouring into the broadcaster and author.
Sophie Laurimore, director of The Soho Agency representing Dr. Mosley, said he was a “wise, wonderful and lovely man”.
“He was immensely grateful for how receptive the public was to the ideas he had the privilege to share and to the many scientists whose work he had the honor to help popularise”, she added. “Michael was unique.”
Glenis Shaw, from New Zealand, told the BBC Dr. Mosley was “my absolute hero”.
“He taught me how to be healthy. I owe him so very much.
“We have all lost someone extraordinary and I feel devastated for his wife and family.”
A bar manager found the body, PA news agency reported, after the island’s mayor “saw something” by the fence of the bar and alerted staff.
A police source told BBC News the deceased had been dead “for several days”.
Dr Mosley was found next to a fence around 30 minutes walk from the village of Pedi where he was last seen. A coroner has examined the body., but couldn’t determine the cause of death. His body was transferred to the neighboring Dodecanese island of Rhodes, where more tests will be done.
“It is certainly him,” Nikitas Grillis, the deputy mayor of Symi, said while officials waited for formal identification of the body.
Dr. Mosley studied medicine in London and qualified as a doctor, and for the lasttwodecades has been working as a presenter, documentary maker, journalist, and author.
He was known for his TV programs including Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, and BBC Radio 4’s Just One Thing podcast.
Chris van Tulleken, one of Dr Mosley’s co-presenters on Trust Me, I’m A Doctor, said he was “one of the most important broadcasters of the last few decades” as he paid tribute.
“He basically invented a science broadcasting genre, ” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
