{"id":704321,"date":"2026-05-30T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704321\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:04:10","slug":"clarksons-farms-jeremy-clarkson-was-days-away-from-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704321\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson\u2019s Farm\u2019s Jeremy Clarkson was \u2018days\u2019 away from dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Clarkson was close to suffering a heart attack when he felt pins and needles in his arm. <\/p>\n

The UK broadcaster and TV personality said he survived the close-shave thanks to scrolling on his phone, and stated if it wasn’t for this he wouldn\u2019t have noticed the signs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn\u2019t been doing that I wouldn\u2019t have got pins and needles in my arm and if I hadn\u2019t got pins and needles, I wouldn\u2019t have gone: \u2018Hang on, am I having a heart problem?\u2019 and wouldn\u2019t have gone to hospital. They put me in this big polo mint [scanner] and they found out I have got really bad coronary heart problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the season five opener of Clarkson\u2019s Farm, Clarkson was shown discussing the health scare with his farm manager Kaleb Cooper.<\/p>\n

Clarkson explained that the problems came from unhealthy arteries, which were blocked and prevented blood from getting to his heart. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019ve got arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping, one of them totally blocked, one of them looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District and one of them got so clogged up, it had to form what looked like branches, so my heart wasn\u2019t getting any blood … So I said [to the doctor]: \u2018How close was I to a heart attack?\u2019 And he went: \u2018Days\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

Jeremy Clarkson with his girlfriend Lisa Hogan, who co-stars on Clarkson’s Farm (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

He told the Sun that he didn\u2019t recognise what he was dealing with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, \u2018Well, I am working very hard.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

The outlet reported that Clarkson noticed a change in his behaviour towards the end of the latest Clarkson\u2019s Farm season, with the former Top Gear host saying \u201cYou can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get in a proper old panic. I didn\u2019t know at the time. I knew I wasn\u2019t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it\u2019s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem.\u201d <\/p>\n

Clarkson underwent life-saving heart surgery to amend the problems. <\/p>\n

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