TV host Martin Roberts has shared his worries for his future after his near-death experience (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
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.
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’.
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.’
He is sent into a ‘flurry of worry’ every time his chest ‘twinges'(Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
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.
‘Just doing lots of good. I don’t know how much time I’ve got left, so I just want to do as much as I possibly can to help.
‘It’s not really about money. It’s about just making a difference, because that’s what you’ll be remembered for,’ he concluded.
Earlier this month Roberts explained to Metro just why he was speeding things up, despite doctor’s orders.
‘It’s almost like I am absolutely focused on this as a thing, because I don’t know how much longer I’ve got now. Maybe that heart thing was a call to action,’ he said at the time.
‘I’m definitely not following all the advice in terms of making myself last longer, but I’d probably rather have a few years as a lion than many as a lamb.’
Despite advice to slow down, he has a new renovation project because he doesn’t know how long he’s got left (Picture: Getty)
The TV star rose to notoriety as the face of BBC’s property auction series Homes Under The Hammer in 2003. And over two decades later, he has no plans of quitting.
And, unlike some reality shows, he has insisted that it is all 100% ‘genuine’.
He added: ‘There’s not a single bit of Homes Under The Hammer that’s fake, every single bit of it is true.
‘I think people are a lot less stupid than sometimes people who put programmes on television think because, you can see it’s real.
‘You can see that the buyers are real. You can see the auction is real. You can see that what they do when they do up the property is real.’
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