I’m A Celebrity star ‘ignored doctor’s orders’ despite being declared 3 hours from death

Former I’m A Celebrity prima Martin Roberts has revealed helium ignored doctor’s orders aft being hours distant from death.

The Homes Under The Hammer presenter, 61, was rushed to hospital for life-saving bosom country successful 2022 aft experiencing thorax pains.

He kept his followers updated astatine the time, explaining that he’d had ‘a monolithic magnitude of fluid each astir my heart’, which had stopped it from working.

He’d been told by doctors that without the exigency operation, helium would person lone had hours to live.

But contempt the near-death experience, Martin isn’t playing it harmless these days.

Speaking to Metro connected behalf of 10bet, the TV prima revealed: ‘It was a spot of an eye-opener to beryllium honest, being 3 hours from death, that’s ever going to ruin your day.

‘I was told to dilatory down and truly instrumentality things easy… truthful I bought a pub which needed implicit renovating and which I’ve got effort and run, having nary acquisition of moving a pub, edifice oregon a hotel.’

He went on: ‘It abruptly makes you realise however fragile we each are successful tons of ways.

‘If I said your beingness is going to extremity successful a year’s time, would you dilatory down oregon would you velocity up and effort and bash each the things that you privation to do.’

Martin is present focusing his clip connected giving backmost with much foundation enactment and rebuilding the pub for the community.

‘It’s mislaid its heart, and it’s involving young kids, giving them a accidental to get progressive successful the operation industry, and moving forward, kids are going to travel successful and tally it and each that benignant of thing.

‘It’s astir similar I americium perfectly focused connected this arsenic a thing, due to the fact that I don’t cognize however overmuch longer I’ve got now.

‘Maybe that bosom happening was a telephone to action.

‘I’m decidedly not pursuing each the proposal successful presumption of making myself past longer, but I’d astir apt alternatively person a fewer years arsenic a lion than galore arsenic a lamb.’

The prima besides has nary plans connected stepping backmost from Homes Under The Hammer, which has go a staple of British TV since it archetypal aired successful 2003.

‘I’m precise privileged and honoured to person been portion of it since the start, since occurrence one,’ helium said, reflecting connected however truthful galore of his fans person ‘grown up’ with the show.

When asked the concealed to its longevity, helium told us: ‘It’s genuine, there’s not a azygous spot of Homes Under The Hammer that’s fake, each azygous spot of it is true.

‘I deliberation radical are a batch little anserine than sometimes radical who enactment programmes connected tv deliberation because, you tin spot it’s real. You tin spot that the buyers are real. You tin spot the auction is real. You tin spot that what they bash erstwhile they bash up the spot is real.

‘It’s got it’s got jeopardy, it’s got an constituent of, “I could bash that”. So, you tin ticker it arsenic idiosyncratic passively, who conscionable thinks that’s bully entertainment. Or you tin say, actually, “You cognize what? Maybe we tin person a spell astatine that. Maybe we could bash it, due to the fact that they look a spot similar maine and you, those radical determination who’ve conscionable bought that location successful Stoke-on-Trent for £75,000, spent a period doing it up and conscionable sold it for £102,000.”‘

He added: ‘I’d similar to deliberation that I’m portion of it’s longevity, due to the fact that I bash cognize I’m talking about, I effort to bring genuine proposal and accusation to people, and we’ve got the remainder of the fantastic presenters who conscionable bring truthful overmuch to the amusement arsenic well.

‘It’s consciousness bully tv with a bosom and a purpose. You tin ticker it and get thing retired of it. You tin instrumentality distant thing oregon you tin ticker it and think, “There’s perfectly nary mode they are going to renovate that location for £500”.’

Over his decades-long career, Martin has appeared connected the likes of gameshows Hole successful the Wall and Pointless, and successful 2016 was a campmate successful a peculiarly turbulent twelvemonth of I’m A Celebrity.

Martin came successful sixth place, lasting 15 days successful the jungle, and faced clashes with the likes of Larry Lamb and Danny Baker.

Comparing his clip successful the jungle to this year’s series, which sees Coleen Rooney, Strictly prima Oti Mabuse and McFly’s Danny Jones taking part, Martin said: ‘This is simply a truly bully radical of people, we had a truly bully radical of people, and there’s been series’ erstwhile I astir apt thought I would not person wanted to walk 3 weeks with immoderate of those people, they would person driven maine huffy and I deliberation it would person got truly nasty, due to the fact that I mostly talk my mind.

‘We had a fewer ups and downs successful my year, but we worked done it and it each turned retired alright successful the end.

‘And past this group, I would happily parachute into that and walk 3 weeks with this radical people. There’s cipher successful determination who’s obnoxious, there’s cipher successful determination who’s annoying.

‘So I deliberation successful a satellite of of chaos and uncertainty and upset, I deliberation the bookers did the close occupation successful putting unneurotic a team, a radical who really would conscionable marque fun, entertaining television, and not a achy watch.’

Martin Roberts was speaking to Metro connected behalf of 10bet.

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