Jeremy Clarkson admitted he ‘doesn’t have long left’ just months before a serious health scare that saw him be rushed to hospital.
The former Top Gear man has embraced nature in his later years, turning to farming after taking on the 1,000 acre Diddly Squat Farm in the heart of the Cotswolds.
With three seasons of Clarkson’s Farm documenting his journey in the arable world so far, it’s become one of the most watched TV shows on Amazon Prime Video which has bankrolled the production of the show.
Season four is set to come to our screens in 2025, with viewers expected to be introduced to the journey Clarkson took when spending just short of £1 million on his new pub.
But away from television, things have gotten very serious for Clarkson in recent weeks after paramedics rushed him to hospital.
It came when the journalist had run into difficulties while on holiday in the Indian Ocean this summer.
Writing in his column for The Sunday Times, the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire presenter said he was finding it difficult to swim. He also had difficulty walking up stairs without getting assistance from others.
“These problems all manifested themselves in one day, which made the rest of my holiday extremely relaxing because all I did was sit in a chair drinking wine and eating cheese,” he wrote.
Jeremy Clarkson has recently bought and opened a pub (PA/Neil Robinson)
“Back at home, though, the sudden deterioration began to gather pace. I woke on Wednesday morning not feeling too good. I was clammy and there was a tightness in my chest.”
After putting the symptoms to one side, Clarkson finally called for medical help after getting pins and needles in his left arm.
It comes just months after Clarkson was extremely honest about his own mortality.
Asked by The Guardian if he’s ever been hurt in his life, Clarkson candidly said: “Oh God, countless things. But you’ve got two choices: wallow or stiffen your upper lip and get on with it.
“I come from a generation where we stiffen the upper lip and get on with it.”
Clarkson on the holiday where he started to feel unwell (Instagram/@jeremyclarkson1)
On his own mortality at the age of 64, he added: “I don’t have long. I’ve probably only got what, 70,000 hours left, maybe?”
With 70,000 hours translating to eight years on Earth, he and his loved ones will be hoping he can surpass this landmark and then some, especially after his recent health scare.
Medics at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford checked over Clarkson’s heart, where they found that one of his arteries to his heart was completely blocked with another in a bad way.
After being put in a ‘big Polo mint’ – or CT scanner as most people call them – doctors decided that surgery was not needed, with stents inserted to keep his arteries open and the blood flowing.
“I have no idea why I had felt clammy the previous day or why I’d had those pins and needles,” Jezza wrote. “I certainly wasn’t having a heart attack. But if it hadn’t looked that way, I never would have been sent to hospital and fed into that Polo mint.”
When asking doctors if he was ‘days away’ from ‘his bankruptcy’, Clarkson said the doctors answered ‘maybe’.