The wife of tragic TV doctor Michael Mosley says she still feels "awkward" calling herself a widow almost 18 months after his untimely death.

Michael and Dr Clare Bailey Mosley were holidaying on the Greek island of Symi in June 2024 when the 67-year old doctor and broadcaster decided to take a two-mile walk to a nearby town.

Four days later, his body was found on a rocky patch of land close to a private resort called Agia Marina. A post-mortem did not reveal any obvious cause for his death, which appears to have happened some time in the late afternoon of the day he disappeared.

An inquest reported that the cause of his death was "unascertainable" and that his death was "most likely attributable either to heat stroke or non-identified pathological cause."

Clare is still considering therapy to help her cope with her sudden loss: "I feel I need to have time to do it," she told the Telegraph. "It's next on my list. I'm not going just because everyone tells me I should."

She added that she formed an ad hoc bereavement support group of her own: "I do have friends I see. There are two other [widowed] women nearby so we often meet up.

Clare went on: "We call ourselves 'the three merry widows'. Although I don't use the word 'widow' unless I have to. I feel a bit awkward about the word itself. It just reminds me of what I've lost."

Clare and Michael's son Jack - who is also a doctor - have resolved to carry on his work. They have written three books on healthy eating - Food Noise, Eating Together, and The Fast 800 Favourites.

"Michael would have been so proud of Jack," Clare told Good Housekeeping Live. "And I'm incredibly proud of how the family came together after we lost him, because it was a really traumatic experience. But we all pulled together."

She recalled how even Michael, who was a respected authority on healthy eating, wasn't immune to the temptations of a treat now and then: "He used to ask me to hide chocolate quite regularly," she recalled. "I still find chocolate in the broom cupboard!'

Jack added that - chocolate addiction aside - his dad practised what he preached: "Dad had put on a few kilos every year as he approached his early 50s, and by 2012 he had become type two diabetic," he said.

"The normal path at the time was to get put on more and more medications before ending up on insulin. It was a very new idea to think about reversing it. But that's what dad was able to do. He lost 10 kilos during the filming of that program. And he was able to keep it off over the next 10-15 years through fasting."