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Homes Under the Hammer host Martin Roberts 'in tears' as he issues career update

BBC star Martin Roberts was left fighting back the emotion as he broke down in tears giving a career announcement to his followers on social media.

As reported by Birmingham Live, the host of Homes Under the Hammer returned to filming after he underwent emergency heart surgery.

Speaking to all of his 20.7K followers, Martin said: "So I've got some news and it’s actually pretty amazing news.

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"Today is a very special day, it’s quite an emotional one to be honest because I've spoken to the doctors and they’ve said as long as I take it easy I'm ok to start work.

"So I am back today filming Homes Under The Hammer. I'm in the valleys of Wales, I never thought I’d be so happy."

Captioning his social media post, Martin wrote: "It’s a VERY special day… so I decided I should wear a VERY bright shirt to celebrate."

The star was rushed to hospital last month after experiencing issues with his breathing.

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He continued: "There’s a sack around your heart and it was filling with fluid, it’s called a pericardial effusion and that in turn is something called a tapenade, which basically means this sack is squeezing the heart it sits around, so the heart isn’t able to expand, and therefore isn’t able to pump, so it means all of your organs start failing.

"By the time they got to me, my kidneys were at 30% my liver was at 30%, my lungs weren’t getting the oxygen and at any point, I could have had a heart attack…. The heart would have been strangled by itself.”

You can watch Martin on Homes Under the Hammers on Friday, May 26 at 11:15am on BBC One.

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