The Clarkson’s Farm star shared a terrifying health confession in the new Prime Video series.
Jeremy Clarkson’s artery looked “like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District” when he was rushed to hospital for heart surgery. In series five of Prime Video hit Clarkson’s Farm, the former Top Gear star undergoes a chilling health scare as an ambulance is hailed to Diddly Squat and rushes him to Oxford Heart Centre.
In the new episodes, Jeremy could be seen wired up to heart monitors as he explained to Kaleb Cooper that his heart wasn’t getting enough blood supply, and he came close to suffering a heart attack. He underwent a procedure in October 2024 after experiencing tightness in his chest and pins and needles in his arms.
On the show, Jeremy told Kaleb upon his return from hospital: “I’m back and not dead. The Grim Reaper will have to wait. It was f***ing close, though.”
He explained: “That was just coincidental – I was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn’t been doing that, I wouldn’t have got 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 heart problems’, and I wouldn’t have gone to the hospital.”
He added: “They found I’ve got really bad coronary artery problems. You’ve got three arteries that feed your heart with blood; one of them was totally blocked, one of them looked like something angling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District, and one of them had got so clogged up it had had to form branches. So my heart wasn’t getting any blood.”
Jeremy was advised to avoid manual labour for six weeks on the show.
