Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about the scary warnings he received from his doctor, including being told to stop working following a recent heart procedure.
The former Top Gear host, 64, recently underwent an urgent heart operation to have a stent fitted to open up a blocked artery.
Writing in The Times, the TV presenter complained of feeling ‘clammy’ and having ‘tightness in my chest’, which led to him being admitted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he underwent the life-saving operation.
Well now he has revealed that his doctor warned him that ‘a lot’ of his current work will have ‘to go’, and suggested replacing it with golf.
Although he remains adamant he will continue to work – the health scare has been enough to shock meat-eater Clarkson into rethinking his diet as he contemplates ways to ‘make celery interesting’.
Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about the scary warnings he received from his doctor, including being told him to stop working following a heart procedure
He said that his doctor told him ‘a lot’ of his current work will have ‘to go’, and suggested replacing it with golf
Clarkson wrote in his column in The Sunday Times how he felt ‘mostly dead’ after returning to the beach after a short swim
Clarkson wrote in the Sun: ‘If I didn’t work, I’d just sit at home all day, rotting.
‘The worst problem though is diet. To cut my alarmingly high levels of cholesterol, I need to cut out, completely, -everything I like eating.
‘Bacon, sausages, beef, lamb, pork, butter, chips, proper milk, Cadbury‘s fruit and nut bars and the interesting bit in an egg.
‘I’ve had a week now to live in the new regime and it’s horrific.’
However, he dismissed the idea of stopping work, saying he would ‘carry on’ and just change his diet.
He claimed: ‘Then there’s my work, which I love. I like it so much in fact, I currently have ten jobs. I honestly make Elon Musk look like a slacker.’
The former Top Gear presenter, who has a brewery, farm shop and pub in Oxfordshire, also says he has been told to shift towards eating vegetables and away from drinking his own beer.
‘We must now move on to the question of exercise,’ Clarkson added. ‘I’ve always seen this is something you do when travelling from the car to the pub, or from the lunch table to the sitting room.
‘But apparently, when I’ve recovered from the operation, I must do more.’
‘Yeah, yeah. I’m there every day,’ Kaleb quipped, reassuring fans, ‘I mean, I’m at the far every day, or we’ll text every day or, you know, I’ll go in for a cup of tea every day’ [both pictured]
It was revealed that the former Top Gear host had to have the procedure after a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health, that left him ‘maybe days away from death’
The 64-year-old also said that he was aware that his lifestyle was unhealthy, and he was unconcerned by the thought of dying, but now wants to see his ‘grandchildren grow up’.
Clarkson wrote in his column in The Sunday Times how he felt ‘mostly dead’ after returning to the beach after a short swim.
He spent the rest of his break on a tropical island eating cheese and drinking wine.
It was only when he returned to Britain and he was loading 30 pigs onto a ‘slaughterhouse school bus’ that he noticed pins and needles in his left arm.
He then went to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford via an ambulance, where a heart attack was ruled out after he had an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests and X-rays.
He said he then went to an ‘operating theatre’ on Wednesday, after further checks, and doctors said he was perhaps ‘days away’ from death.
Once there he was fitted with a stent to his hold his arteries open, to improve blood flow to his heart and relieve his chest pain.
His doctors told him he was perhaps ‘days away’ from getting very ill, and was fitted with the stents in around two hours.
Clarkson, who previously quit smoking after contracting pneumonia on holiday in Spain, ended his show The Grand Tour on Prime Video along with Richard Hammond and James May last month.