Martin Roberts fights back tears as he returns to work after emergency heart surgery

MARTIN Roberts fought back the tears as he returned to work after emergency heart surgery.

The Homes Under The Hammer presenter, 58, was rushed to hospital with "hours to live" after experiencing chest pains last month.

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The TV star needed life-saving emergency treatment after being told there was "a massive amount of fluid" surrounding his heart.

A week later he was discharged from hospital after the surgery.

And now he's back doing what he loves the most.

Taking to Instagram, Martin shared a video of himself back at work.

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He told his 20.7k followers: "So I've got some news and it’s actually pretty amazing news.

"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."

The star's emotions got the better of him and he had to compose himself.

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He continued: "I'm in the valleys of Wales, I never thought I’d be so happy."

Martin captioned the post: "It’s a VERY special day… so I decided I should wear a VERY bright shirt to celebrate 🥳😘❤️❤️❤️❤️."

Earlier this month the BBC star exclusively told The Sun how surgeons brought him back from the brink of death — and forced him to change his life.

He said: “I feel so very lucky to be here. I could have died but I’m here.

"I’ll never be the same person again.

“I like being on the go, I’ve been presenting Homes Under The Hammer for 19 years and I’m determined to make it to 20, next May.

Over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, symptoms which Martin had been experiencing for weeks came to a head, and he said: “I’ve had asthma since I was a child, but I couldn’t catch my breath, no matter how many times I used my inhaler.

“I felt like my chest was heavy and I was so exhausted. I’d spent the previous week or so planning my day to make sure I only had to come downstairs once in the morning and go back up in the evening, as every time I climbed the stairs I’d be exhausted and out of breath at the top.”

He asked Kirsty, his wife of 12 years, to take him to the Royal United Hospital in Bath. Martin said: “I thought it would be packed on a bank holiday weekend and I didn’t want to waste anyone’s time.

“I’d used Google and searched things myself and thought it might be long Covid but it was getting worse.

“I was hallucinating and I couldn’t write things down properly.

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“Letters would be in the wrong order when I was filling in the form at the hospital.

“The wait time when we arrived was four hours but within 45 seconds of arriving, a nurse saw me, and things went fast from there.”

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