{"id":451982,"date":"2026-05-30T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:32:08","slug":"clarksons-farm-star-jeremy-clarkson-was-days-away-from-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451982\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson\u2019s Farm star Jeremy Clarkson was \u2018days\u2019 away from death"},"content":{"rendered":"
He underwent life-saving heart surgery after discovering severe coronary blockages during a hospital visit. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
The former Top Gear presenter, 66, became very \u201cpoorly\u201d in October 2024 and underwent life-saving heart surgery to have two stents fitted and he previously admitted he \u201chad no idea\u201d he had come close to death as he was so busy filming the latest series of Clarkson\u2019s Farm and opening his pub The Farmer\u2019s Dog.<\/p>\n
Asked if he realised he was at death\u2019s door, he told the Sun newspaper: \u201cI had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, \u2018Well, I am working very hard\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was very tricky. The rest [of the series] is Oh, here he is farming and Kaleb and Charlie and Gerald and Lisa – all the usual suspects.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen suddenly, in the last two programmes, it just goes off like a bomb\u2019. You 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He underwent life-saving heart surgery after discovering severe coronary blockages during a hospital visit. Photo \/ Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89,4995,18221,134510,4731,634,156,3233,11784,71,2862,230045,67252,424,111,139,69,16792,17162,56442,2737,43211,6736],"class_list":["post-451982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-attack","tag-away","tag-clarkson","tag-clarksons","tag-days","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-farm","tag-fatal","tag-from","tag-heart","tag-inadvertently","tag-jeremy","tag-life","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-phone","tag-saved","tag-scrolling","tag-star","tag-suffering","tag-was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}