The Clarkson’s Farm star opened up on his health scare.
Jeremy Clarkson shared a health update (Image: Formula 1 via Getty Images)
Jeremy Clarkson has shared a sad health update after admitting that he “almost died” on his Diddly Squat Farm. His health scare was filmed as part of the latest series of his hit Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm.
Towards the end of 2024, the 66-year-old disclosed that he underwent emergency heart surgery after suffering pains following a “sudden deterioration” in his health. A heart attack was initially ruled out following preliminary checks at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, though doctors warned him he was “days away” from suffering one. The first episode of series five captures the emotional moment he was reunited with farmhand Kaleb Cooper following his discharge from hospital, with doctors advising no driving for a week and no manual labour for six weeks.
Clarkson was rushed to hospital with heart problems (Image: Getty)
“I was scrolling on my phone, and if I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have had pins and needles in my arm. And if I hadn’t got pins and needles I wouldn’t have thought ‘hang on, I’m having a heart problem’ and I wouldn’t have gone to hospital,” he explained.
“Anyway, they put me in this big polo mint and they found out I had really bad coronary artery problems.
“You’ve got three arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping. One of them [was] totally blocked. One of them looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District.
“And one of them had got so clogged up it had formed like branches, so my heart wasn’t getting any blood. I said, ‘how close was I to a heart attack?’ and he went ‘days’.”
Jeremy continued: “They put a camera up my arm, across my chest and into my arm, you can feel it, you can see my own heart on a TV screen.
“They thought they were going to have to do open heart surgery, then they went up and realised that actually they could mend it so they got the Dyno-rod out, shoved that in, and they had hammers, chisels, cameras.
“And then they put stents which are like pillow pads and stretch it out, so I should be as good as new.”
