Martin Roberts has revealed exactly why he was in hospital last week and how he's doing now after alarmingly being told he had just 'hours to live.'
Fans of Homes Under The Hammer were left concerned for the show's popular host when it was reported he took to Twitter to share the news he'd needed to have emergency heart surgery after doctors found a dangerous amount of fluid around his heart. Martin, 58, told his followers: "Had they not got rid of it, which they did in an emergency operation last night, then it’s sort of quite serious, like, hours to live kind of c***. So here I am, still around, thank goodness, thank god and angels, all those things.
Martin, 58, is still recovering in hospital after the major operation , but was well enough to appear on Monday's Good Morning Britain, speaking to the show's hosts from bedside his bed via video call.
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Former I'm A Celebrity star Martin was only on the ITV show a few weeks ago, having driven through Europe to the Ukranian border. And, telling Martin he was worried about him then, Richard Madeley said: "I have to say to you Martin, when Susanna and I spoke to you when you were in Medyka about a month ago, we spoke after the show and we were a bit concerned about you. You had driven pretty much non-stop across Europe to get there, and although you gave a very good account of yourself you looked exhausted. You then came home and this terrible health crisis just suddenly fell out of a clear blue sky."
Martin said: "I am aware of the signs of a heart attack, which is those things but with tingling and things. So like a bloke I thought I'll just make it through the week."
Detailing how things escalated: "By the time it got to Tuesday, Wednesday, I was feeling so rubbish that my wife took me to A&E, and basically I was rushed through A&E and to cut a long story short, they found that I'd actually got water or liquid around my heart, which was compressing the heart to a point where at any point it could have stopped. Unlike a normal heart attack, there is nothing you can do about it.
"You can't do the whole defibrillator or chest massage, cos the heart itself is literally being strangled. So within three to four hours, I was on an emergency operating ward, having a tube put into this sack around my heart and they drained off a litre and a half of fluid that was literally sort of strangling myself."
Martin went onto thanks the hard-working NHS has staff who saved his life.
