Jeremy Clarkson leaves fans worried after jaw-dropping health revelation

Jeremy Clarkson’s new series of Clarkson’s Farm is back on Prime Video and the presenter opened up about his frightening coronary health scare that left him ‘days away’ from a fatal heart attack

Jeremy Clarkson has confessed to a worrying health admission after he worried fans with his hospital stint. The presenter shared the surprise announcement as his TV show returns to screens.

The telly star said he was “days away” from a deadly heart attack as his fresh series of Clarkson’s Farm makes its comeback to television screens. Initially broadcast in 2021, the programme chronicles Jeremy’s continuing venture of operating his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds alongside 26-year-old farmer Kaleb Cooper.

The latest series tracks Jeremy Clarkson as he implements significant alterations to the Diddly Squat enterprise, largely prompted by the aftermath of a harsh government budget that throws the UK farming sector into turmoil. Simultaneously, the harvests undergo cutting-edge treatment, the crew tackles governmental pressure, hefty taxation, and the challenges of branching out into a conventional pub.

During the opening episode of series five, Jeremy recounts his hospital stay to Kaleb, revealing he was merely “days away” from a fatal heart attack, reports the Manchester Evening News.

While embracing Kaleb, he declared: “I’m back and I’m not dead- the reaper will have to wait. It was f****** close though.” Detailing his emergency dash to hospital, he continued: “I was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have got pins and needles in my arm.

“If I hadn’t got pins and needles, I wouldn’t have gone: ‘Hang on, am I having a heart problem?’ and wouldn’t have gone to hospital. They put me in this big polo mint [scanner] and they found out I have got really bad coronary heart problems.”

He continued: “So you’ve got arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping, one of them totally blocked, one of them looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District and one of them got so clogged up, it had to form what looked like branches, so my heart wasn’t getting any blood… So I said [to the doctor]: ‘How close was I to a heart attack?’ And he went: ‘Days’.”

Jeremy has kept supporters and audiences informed about his cardiac issues after falling seriously unwell in 2024. He previously revealed: “I had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, ‘Well, I am working very hard’. But it was very tricky.

“The rest is, ‘Oh, here he is farming and Kaleb and Charlie and Gerald and Lisa – all the usual suspects. Then suddenly, in the last two programmes, it just goes off like a bomb’.

“You can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm. I get in a proper old panic.”

He added: “I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem.”

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