Beloved Clarkson’s Farm star Jeremy Clarkson reveals he underwent emergency heart surgery this fall. The reality TV star had to undergo surgery after a vacation. Jeremy, 64, is famous for presenting TV shows such as Top Gear. He recently took up farming and has gained many more fans appearing on his Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm.
Jeremy, from Clarkson’s Farm, feared he “didn’t have much time left” after a previous health scare. The Amazon Prime TV star dealt with some previous bouts of illness, but shows no signs of slowing down. Jeremy’s health scare comes after his co-star Gerald Cooper survived a battle with cancer last season. Fortunately, Jeremy, Gerald and the stars’ series, based on their life at Diddly Squat Farm, is still going strong.
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Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘near heart attack’
Life on the Diddly Squat Farm is a one-stop shop for heartwarming entertainment. But running the entire operation doesn’t mean any stress for Jeremy Clarkson and his team.
This October, the 64-year-old takes to his column in The Sunday Times to share how he was potentially “days away from death” after a recent holiday.
He returned to the UK from a holiday in the Indian Ocean and reportedly felt “tingling” and “pins and needles” sensations in his left arm which he initially ignored, according to the BBC.
Jeremy said he spent his vacation “drinking wine and eating cheese, sitting in a chair” in his column.
“However, back home, the sudden deterioration began to accelerate… I woke up Wednesday morning not feeling very well. It was wet and I felt tightness in my chest,” he explains.
It was after experiencing this “sudden deterioration” that Jeremy sought medical attention.
After an examination at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, a heart attack was ruled out. But it explains how one of his arteries became blocked.
“It seems that of the arteries that feed my heart with nutritious blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was going in that direction,” Jeremy writes.
The Clarkson’s Farm star underwent surgery
Although Jeremy’s column in the Sunday Times includes some wry comments about his recent health scare, what he experienced was serious.
The 64-year-old thanked “all those wonderful people” at the hospital after explaining how he had a stent placed.
The stent is essentially a “tube that is inserted into a narrowed or blocked artery to open it and allow blood to flow more freely.”
Amazon Prime star Jeremy says he was allowed to return home the next day. But he was left thinking, “Wow, that was close,” after the ordeal.
After coming out on the other side of the heart attack, Jeremy writes about how his thoughts have turned to his diet: “…here I wonder what water tastes like and if it’s possible to make celery interesting…”
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