Presenter Dr Hannah Fry has paid tribute to her ‘modest’ colleague Michael Mosley, revealing he once saved the life of a woman.
Dr Fry – who co-presented The Great British Intelligence Test and a Coronavirus Special alongside Mosley – spoke about his “extraordinary” actions on The One Show.
She lent her voice to the host of celebrities who have paid tribute to the TV doctor, who was found dead on the Greek island of Symi four days after he went missing.
The body of the 67-year-old, who was a familiar face thanks to his regular appearances on TV programmes including The One Show, was found close to a cave complex beside Agia Marina around 10m from the sea.
Foul play has been ruled out by local police, who say there were no signs of injury and CCTV footage clearly showed no one was with him when he appeared to fall close to where his body was found.
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Speaking on The One Show Dr Fry said: “There was this rumour going around that once Michael had saved somebody’s life in the office.
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“I went and approached him about. I was like, ‘Tell me, is this true?’ And he sort of brushed it off, but it was completely true. Somebody collapsed in the BBC offices, in the corridors, and he saw them collapse.
“He went over and performed CPR on them for half an hour until the emergency services arrived and saved her life.
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“She’s gone on to have two children. I mean, this extraordinary thing… You know, if it was me, I think I’d be introducing myself and first thing I’d say is, ‘Did you know I saved someone’s life?’ but for Michael, it was just part of it.”
The One Show presenter Alex Jones also shared her own tribute to Mosley – who first appeared on the BBC flagship show in 2007 – saying he will be “sorely missed”.
Jones said: “His death has been felt by millions of people all around the world who regarded him as their doctor.
“He was a super generous man. Even when he’d come on here in my early days when I was a bit shy, you always felt in such safe hands and he was so generous with tips and tricks, anything you wanted to talk about.”
Image: Mosley with wife Clare. Pic: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock
Mosley’s widow, Dr Clare Bailey Mosely, paid tribute to her husband on Sunday, saying it was a comfort to the family he “very nearly made it” to safety.
She said Mosley – who went missing on Wednesday after leaving his wife and friends at Agios Nikolaos beach to walk back to their hotel – appeared to have undertaken an “incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn’t be easily seen” by search and rescue teams.
His body was discovered by a cameraman on Sunday morning after a widespread search by emergency services operating in dangerous conditions and high temperatures.
It is “pretty surreal”, Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon admits, finding herself at the top of The New York Times bestsellers list.
When I meet the actress alongside her co-writer, best-selling author Harlan Coben, overnight the pair have learned that their thriller is now at number one.
He jokes: “I was texting her last night and saying you’ll now have to call yourself number one bestselling novelist, forget about Oscar winner!”
Image: Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben told Katie Spencer about their novel Gone Before Goodbye
As one of the most successful authors in the world, Coben has sold over 80 million books to date, while for Witherspoon this is new ground.
Not content with running a hugely successful production company responsible for a string of hits, as well as one of the most successful book clubs in the world, she explains she felt compelled to give writing a try.
“People want you to stay in your lane… as a creative person I think it’s impossible to just choose one kind of life.
“Creativity is infinite and who I was as a creative person when I was 20 is very different from the person I am now at 49.”
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Gone Before Goodbye, a thriller about a talented surgeon who finds herself caught up in a deadly conspiracy, is the result of Witherspoon daring to put her head above the parapet.
Image: Witherspoon says she felt compelled to give writing a try
Coben admits he was “a little wary” at first.
“I don’t co-write novels but when she made the pitch and started talking about it, I was like ‘dang that’s good, we can do something with that’.”
While countless celebrities work with ghostwriters, Coben says: “I said to her from day one ‘it’s only going to be you and me in here… no third person in here, I don’t do that’. So every word you [read] comes from Reese and me.”
Image: Coben has sold over 80 million books to date, while for Witherspoon this is new ground
Witherspoon explains: “He was like ‘if we’re going to do this, it’s going to have to be at a really high level because people going to expect a lot, so our bar was really high.”
“I said to her, in the beginning, novels are like a sausage,” Coben laughs. “You might like the final taste, but you don’t want to see how it was made and Reese got to see the full sausage getting made here.”
When it came to writing, Coben says they “fell into a rhythm right away”, working together in three-hour stints, “back and forth with a yellow legal pad – what about this? What about that?”
Image: Coben says they ‘fell into a rhythm right away’
Witherspoon says it “feels really deeply personal” to have their work now in print.
“Usually, as an actor, I walk into other people’s worlds and it’s already set up… but this was creating the whole world with Harlan and just from beginning to end feels very personal.”
While the story seems an obvious fit for being adapted to the screen, perhaps with a certain blonde actress in the leading role, Coben says that was never their intention.
“The biggest, biggest mistake novelists make when you write a book is to say ‘this would make a really great movie’. A book is a book, a movie is a movie, and we both focused on wanting this to be just a great reading experience.”
Given that their collaboration is already selling in big numbers, will the pair team up again to write a second?
Witherspoon says: “Let’s just see what people think of this one first.”
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Associate professor of neurology Dr Laura Stein told Sky’s US partner NBC News: ” The most well-described risk factors include a predisposition [family history of aneurysm], high blood pressure, cigarette smoking and inflammation.”
She went on to explain that most fatal ruptured aneurysms are in the brain, killing about one in three patients.
“When it’s a blood vessel that’s in the head and it bleeds, there’s a much higher risk of having a very bad problem just because the brain is enclosed in a fixed space,” Dr Stein added.
Low-risk aneurysms are monitored by doctors for growth or abnormalities, and there are a series of potential treatment options for those considered dangerous.
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