Jeremy Clarkson has issued an update on his health after the latest trailer for Clarkson’s Farm detailed his terrifying scare.
The presenter, 66, previously claimed he was ‘days from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his Cotswolds home in 2024.
Appearing on Heart Breakfast on Thursday, Jeremy spoke about his ‘fraught’ year and his experience with ‘fat jabs’.
Host Jamie Theakston, 55, said: ‘Can I just say you look very well. I know you’ve had a couple of health scares recently.’
Jeremy replied: ‘Yes, it’s fat jabs. I look like a Lowry painting.’
The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host told Jamie and Amanda Holden he was ‘very well’.
Jeremy Clarkson has issued an update on his health after the latest trailer for Clarkson’s Farm detailed his terrifying scare
He said: ‘It was quite a fraught year last year but no, I’m absolutely fine now. Tickety-boo!’
Elsewhere in the interview, Jeremy admitted he once thought farming was just ‘driving around in a Range Rover, going to the pub and skiing,’ as he issued a stark warning it is ‘a very distressing industry at the moment’.
The presenter was on the show to talk about The Hawkstone Choir ahead of the Britain’s Got Talent final.
He said: ‘I thought farming when I first started, what, seven years ago, you just drive around in a Range Rover, went to the pub occasionally and moaned about the weather and then in February went skiing.
‘I thought “well that’s easy I could do that”. And then I started doing it and it is unbelievably difficult. And I’m lucky because I’ve often got a film crew here so there’s a lot of people. But when there isn’t a film crew here you start to realise “God I’m all on my own all day.” Literally all day six in the morning until midnight.
‘And then you think “oh God there’s no money coming in,” because there isn’t. And then you just think well what if you’re an actual proper farmer like these guys are and all the other people in the choir.
‘You worry about money, you’ve got no one to talk to, you’re on your own. It’s not like most people that work in an office or a shop or wherever, a factory. These guys are on their own worrying all day long that the weather is not right and that another subsidy is gone and they’re being forced to grow bird food rather than human food.
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The presenter, 66, previously claimed he was ‘days from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his Cotswolds home in 2024
Host Jamie Theakston, 55, said: ‘Can I just say you look very well. I know you’ve had a couple of health scares recently.’ Jeremy replied: ‘Yes, it’s fat jabs. I look like a Lowry painting’
The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host told Jamie and Amanda Holden he was ‘very well’. He said: ‘It was quite a fraught year last year but no, I’m absolutely fine now. Tickety-boo!’
‘You know it is a very distressing industry at the moment. But it’s great that the choir has kept going actually because we only brought it together to do some silly adverts for the Hawkstone beer brand. And then they all went “this is great, we’ll just stay together”.’
Streaming giant Amazon Prime has confirmed Clarkson’s Farm will premiere on June 3, with episodes one to four available that day, followed by episodes five and six on June 10. The final two instalments will air on June 17.
Jeremy teased the fifth series was ‘the most dramatic yet’.
He said: ‘It is the most dramatic one of the shows we have done so far. And it gets more and more dramatic towards the end. Yeah, I’ll say no more than that because we’re not actually doing any PR for this series at all.’
A first trailer was released on Monday, with Clarkson reflecting on his own mortality after being warned to take a break by concerned doctors.
The TV personality had previously claimed he was ‘days from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his Cotswolds home in 2024.
He was subsequently rushed to nearby John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford by ambulance, where doctors discovered one of his arteries was ‘completely blocked.’
Surgeons later resolved the issue by inserting a stent – a tiny, expandable mesh tube that is placed in narrow or blocked coronary arteries to restore and aid the flow of blood.
Elsewhere there are concerns away from the farm, with Clarkson’s favoured watering hole The Farmer’s Dog suffering a spate of issues – among them the potentially troublesome arrival of travellers.
Clarkson’s Farm, which follows former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson run his farm Diddly Squat in the Cotswolds, first hit Amazon Prime in 2021.
The show has become a huge hit and gone on to have four successful series.
Series five was announced back in December 2024, followed by filming last year and wrapping up in February 2026.
