Martin Roberts has recalled the terrifying moment he ‘found a dead body’ hidden in a bed upstairs in a sold property on Homes Under The Hammer.
The TV presenter and property expert, 61, revealed that during one visit to the Lake District, he experienced one of the most shocking moments of his career – which ended with a heart-wrenching twist.
He exclusively told MailOnline that while filming an episode in Cumbria, his producer came down from viewing the upstairs of the house looking ‘ashen in the face’ and revealed to the crew that there ‘was a dead body in the bed’.
Confused and shaken, Martin and his BBC crew ‘tiptoed’ upstairs to the bedroom where they saw the ‘body under the sheets’.
But as they stood shaken at the door, Martin explained that the ‘dead body’ started snoring and they soon found out ‘someone forgot their grandad’ and it was the previous owner’s relative.
Martin told MailOnline: ‘We went to this one house, which had clearly been lived in until very recently. Almost like the kettle was still hot kind of thing and we went in and then the director went and had a look around.
‘And she came out absolutely ashen in the face. And she said, ‘There is a dead body! There’s a dead body in the bed’.
‘And we were like, ‘well, that’s a first, we didn’t see that on the risk assessment’.
‘He said no, no, no. There is a dead body.’
‘So we all sort of tiptoed into the bedroom and sure enough, there’s this body underneath the sheet and we’re like, ‘we really don’t know how to deal with this’.
‘And then it started snoring and so we kind of nudged it.
‘And then this old man sat bolt upright, no teeth and said, ‘Where’s my family?’ and the people had left in such a rush that they forgot grandad.
‘Grandad was still sleeping in the bed. The family had left. The house had been sold. He’s suddenly faced with a film crew from homes under.’
Thankfully Martin, who was speaking to MailOnline on behalf of 10bet. revealed that their family had not moved too far away from the original house and once they ‘gave him a cup of tea and calmed him down’ the grandad was reunited with his family.
Since its debut in 2003, Homes Under the Hammer has followed both novice and seasoned purchasers as they bid on often dilapidated residences at auction.
It then tracks their remodelling endeavours to determine the profit or loss from rental or sales.
Martin has appeared on the show since it debuted in the early 2000s and has appeared in over 724 episodes.
The body wasn’t dead, and Martin wasn’t the one who discovered it, and this guy always looks like he’s just climbed out of a skip after a wild night out.
He used to be clean-shaven, but it appears that he opted to grow a beard to make up for his hair loss. Now, his thinning combed hair and beard give him a rather scruffy appearance.
To be honest, none of this makes any sense. So, the house was sold, but the grandfather was still in bed – that must have been some quick property sale – perhaps it should be in the Guinness Book of Records.
I believe it’s more likely that the poor man had some form of dementia and he probably wandered back to his old home and went back to somewhere familiar, but at least he was okay, that’s all that matters. This is the only explanation that makes any sense, and it’s been a bit exaggerated or perhaps they arrived at the wrong house and instead, they entered the House of Lords.
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