JEREMY Clarkson appears to have another health scare on the new series of Clarkson’s Farm.
Despite being told to take things easy by doctors after heart surgery, he does no such thing and ploughs on with working on Diddly Squat Farm and The Farmer’s Dog pub in the first episode of the .
Jeremy Clarkson appears to have another health scare on the new series of Clarkson’s Farm Credit: Getty
The former Top Gear presenter told Kaleb his organ was in such a dire state Credit: Prime
He appears worryingly out of breath attempting to cut down a Christmas tree in the second episode of the fifth season.
The former host, 66, is preparing for the festive period and despite being ordered by docs to rest, he attempts to cut down a tree from within the grounds of Diddly Squat.
is seen lying on his stomach at the bottom of the tree, desperately hacking away at the tree with a handsaw.
But the star eventually gives up and with pain etched on his face, struggles for breath as he bids to recover from the frantic sawing.
He was told to avoid driving for a week and not to partake in any manual labour for 6 weeks Credit: Getty
He was also ordered to overhaul his diet, meaning he had to give up two of his favourite vices Credit: PrimeVideo/YouTube
He then turns to his film crew and says: “I shouldn’t have done that.”
In another scene, however he is seen joking that: “the reaper will have to wait” as he returned to Diddly Squat following his brush with death.
The veteran TV host, 66, is seen giving farmhand , 27, a warm embrace in the opening episode of the new series of Clarkson’s Farm, which airs on Prime Video next month.
It’s the first time the show’s stars had seen each other since Jeremy was rushed to hospital with a heart scare.
And the former presenter told Kaleb his organ was in such a dire state, docs told him he was “days away” from a potentially lethal heart attack.
Jeremy said: “I’m back and I’m not dead – the reaper will have to wait. It was f**king close though.”
Explaining what sparked his emergency dash to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford hospital, Jeremy said: “I was scrolling on my phone, if I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have got pins and needles in my arm and if I hadn’t got pins and needles, I wouldn’t have gone ‘hang on, am i having a heart problem’ and wouldn’t have gone to hospital.”
He continued: “They put me in this big polo mint and they found out I got really bad culinary heart problems.
“So you’ve got three 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’t getting any blood.”
Recalling his conversations with doctors, he added: “So I said ‘how close was I to a heart attack?’ And he went ‘days’
“They put a camera up my arm across my chest and into my heart because they were going to do open heart surgery.
“Then they went up and realised they could actually mend it, so they got the dino rod out, shoved that in. “They had hammers, chisels, cameras and then they put stents – which are Brillo pads – in to stretch it out, so I should be as good as new.”
Following his health scare, Jeremy was told to avoid driving for a week and not to partake in any manual labour for six weeks, much to the relief of Kaleb whose own stress levels relax when his boss isn’t attempting to muck in with farm duties.
He was also ordered to overhaul his diet, meaning he had to give up two of his favourite vices – alcohol and meat.
The government’s inheritance tax changes to farmers have also not eased Jeremy’s stress.
In the second episode of the fifth series, he documents travelling up to London to take part in a farmers’ rally near Whitehall.
He ends up making a speech on stage, which was seen by his doctor who expressed her unhappiness at his involvement.
Relaying their conversation, Jeremy says: “Doctor went mad at me last night. ‘You know we told you to have six weeks rest? It meant sitting by the fire eating minestrone soup.’
“I haven’t been doing that.”
However, despite worries over his health, Jeremy was able to smile ahead of his pub’s first ever bonfire night.
The former Grand Tour star created an effigy of Sir to place on top of it.
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