Martin Roberts has ‘no idea how long he’s got left’ after health scare
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TV presenter Martin Roberts has revealed he doesn’t know ‘how much time’ he’s ‘got left’, after being ‘two or three hours’ from death. The Homes Under the Hammer host, 61, was rushed to hospital for an emergency operation in April 2022 after building up too much fluid in the sac around his heart, also known as a pericardial effusion.
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The father-of-two has been deeply impacted by the health scare, previously sharing that it made him realise ‘how thin a thread we dangle from’ and has inspired him to ‘live life to the fullest’. In a new interview, he shared that every time his chest ‘twinges’ he ‘panics’.
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He continued: ‘As anyone who has had any kind of problems with their heart would attest to it. ‘It sends you into a flurry of worry because they only sort of dribble out these stories afterwards.’. According to Roberts, his consultant told him that he ‘wouldn’t have made it through the night’ had he not undergone surgery immediately.
The former I’m A Celebrity star added to the Mail: ‘That was two to three hours from dying and not being here and not seeing the kids anymore and not fulfilling all my ambitions and doing all the things I want to do.’. Although he was told to ‘slow down and take it easy’, the media personality has ‘gone the other way’ as he renovates a Welsh pub with the help of ‘disengaged and disadvantaged’ to make it a community hub.
