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Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts is 'ignoring doctors advice' to take on pub renovation project - after star was rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery


The 61-year-old TV star was rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery in 2022 after mistaking chest pains for long Covid.

In July 2022 Martin bought the Hendrewen Hotel in for a reported £200,000 and admitted he didn't tell wife Kirsty about the 'accidental' purchase in the village of Blaencwm, Rhondda, almost exactly halfway between Swansea and Cardiff. Martin bought the Hendrewen after falling in love with the Rhondda Tunnel Society, a project to reopen a disused railway line under a mountain as a cycle path linking two Welsh valleys together. A planning report on its approval said: 'The proposed works would create an attractively designed development, providing additional tourist bed space and facilities of a scale appropriate to the size of the site and its location.

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