Martin Roberts has unfortunately suffered from a multitude of health woes over the last couple of years. The Homes Under The Hammer star has shared various updates whilst recovering from a close brush with death.

The 60-year-old first rose to prominence in the late 1980s after securing a slot on BBC Radio Manchester. He made TV appearances on ITV’s Wish You Were Here…? and BBC’s Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is before making his Homes Under The Hammer debut in 2003.

Two decades later, Martin has remained a firm fixture on the show and has gone on to become the BBC’s UK and Overseas Property expert. Despite his fruitful showbiz career, it hasn’t always been plane sailing for the star.

Just weeks after delivering medical supplies to Ukrainian refugees, the father-of-two was rushed to hospital after suffering with chest pains. Upon arriving at the Bath-based institution in April 2022, the property expert discovered he’d have to go into theatre for emergency surgery.

After his sudden admittance, medics learned he had a “massive amount of fluid” that was “strangling” his heart. This pericardial effusion meant that Martin would need life-saving surgery.

Speaking to OK! Magazine, the presenter revealed doctors had plunged an “eight-inch needle” into his chest to draw out “syringe after syringe” of liquid.

“I was awake for this, but I was a bit woozy,” he admitted. “There was a tube that went in through my chest cavity, down into the sack around my heart.”

The DIY expert later told his social media 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**p.

“So here I am, still around, thank goodness, thank god and angels, all those things.”

He continued to say at the time that there had been “lots of other complicated things” that he had suffered from as a result of the procedure.

However, he was optimistic that he would be able to “work through” the health struggles and was discharged a week later.

A year on from the life-saving surgery, Martin claimed that he was “just happy to be alive”, whilst realising life was “full of ups and downs”.

“I call it a near-death experience because I could have died. It is that serious. A lot of people feel the same as me. The mental stumbles start to kick in.”

“You want every day to be perfect and of course it’s not. You have to go to Tescos, take the kids to school. Life is full of ups and downs.”

However the former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star told The Mirror in May 2023 that he was struggling to move past the ordeal.

“The health recovery I think is probably a lot quicker than the mental recovery,” he admitted. “The mental recovery is that fear that that happened, will it happen again? Suddenly, it’s a Monday morning, am I going to die?”