Dr Michael Mosley - popular TV personality who pushed boundaries

A body has been found in the search for missing TV and radio personality, Dr Michael Mosley. It was confirmed on Sunday morning that, after days of searching, the body was discovered in a rocky area beside Agia Marina on Symi.

Dr Mosley, 67, was last seen by friends at the Agios Nikolaos beach on Wednesday, before going for a walk. The search effort has been widespread and has included firefighters, dogs, helicopters, drones, local people and officers from Symi and outside the island.

Dr Mosley, known for popularising the 5:2 diet and for his appearances on The One Show and This Morning, was on holiday when he vanished. He first trained as a doctor before moving into the world of broadcasting.

Through his work, he helped popularise the 5:2 diet and often pushed his body to extreme lengths to see the effects, including living with tapeworms in his guts for six weeks for a documentary. After studying PPE at Oxford, he became an investment banker, but later retrained as a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

He decided it was not the right profession for him after qualifying, later joining the BBC as a trainee assistant producer. During his career with the broadcaster he presented a host of science programmes and films including the series Trust Me, I'm A Doctor, which looked at healthcare in Britain.

He also carried out many unusual experiments on himself within these shows, including eating a black pudding made with his own blood and injecting snake venom into his blood to see how it clotted in the BBC documentary The Wonderful World Of Blood. In a BBC Four documentary Infested!, he infected himself with parasites including tapeworms in order to understand how they impact the human body.

He often appeared on BBC's The One Show and ITV's This Morning and hosted many other shows, including Medical Mavericks; Blood And Guts; Science Story; The Young Ones; Inside The Human Body; Eat, Fast Live And Longer; The Truth About Exercise; Pain, Pus & Poison and The Genius Of Invention. In 2002, Dr Mosley was nominated for an Emmy for his executive producer role on BBC science documentary The Human Face, presented by John Cleese and featuring a raft of famous faces including Elizabeth Hurley, Pierce Brosnan and David Attenborough.

He was also credited with popularising the 5:2 diet, a form of intermittent fasting, through his book The Fast Diet which he co-authored with journalist Mimi Spencer. Dr Mosley later advocated for The Fast 800 diet, which follows a "moderately low-carb, Mediterranean-style diet", which he wrote a book about.

He also made a number of series for Channel 4, including one which looked at why the UK is losing its battle with obesity after 30 years of government schemes trying to tackle the issue. The broadcaster hosted a Radio 4 podcast, entitled Just One Thing, where he revealed tips to help improve your health.

He recorded a special edition of the show at the Hay Festival on May 25 with Professor Tanya Byron. Dr Mosley's wife Clare Bailey, who is also a doctor, health columnist and author, and four children joined the search on Symi.