Jeremy Clarkson has opened up further about his recent health scare, admitting he got a ‘scary’ warning from doctors to give up TV work after having serious heart surgery.
The bloke’s never really off our screens, is he?
Even after his time on Top Gear came punching to an end, he was soon back with Richard Hammond and James May for The Grand Tour. And now that’s over with, he’s pretty occupied with Clarkson’s Farm.
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So, love him or hate him, it’s pretty hard to imagine British telly without Clarkson on it somewhere.
But it sounds like that’s what the medical professionals might be suggesting.
Clarkson wrote in yesterday’s (25 October) column for The Sun that doctors had last week announced the arteries feeding his heart ‘were like something you’d find hanging from the roof of a cave in the Peak District’ and that he needed ‘extremely urgent surgery’.
“You might imagine this was all very scary but honestly, it wasn’t,” the 64-year-old added.
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He was ‘relaxed’ for the procedure, trusting the ‘skilled professionals’ and feeling like a car as they ‘mended’ him. However, he said: “What is scary though is what came afterwards. The advice on how I must live my life from now on.”
Clarkson says that he is literally ‘not allowed to have fun anymore’.
“I must live in a Liberal Democrat, holier-than-thou fog of weeds, seeds and yoga. This is terrifying,” he explained adding that if he goes to a party, he’ll be on ‘elderflower juice’ and leaving at 9:30pm.
The TV host went on to point out he has ’10 jobs’, making ‘Elon Musk look like a slacker’ because he loves his work so much.
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And in case you weren’t sure of just how inescapable Clarkson is, he outlined: “I write three newspaper columns a week, I have a brewery, a pub, a shop, I host Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, run a farm, make a television show about that and this week, my latest book came out.”
But the doctor apparently said: “Yes well, a lot of that will have to go.”
The star wasn’t impressed with his suggestion as a replacement: “Golf’s good.”
Clarkson bluntly responded: “No, it isn’t.”
He went on to question just what people do with themselves when they’re not working, as he personally doesn’t have any hobbies.
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“Which means that if I didn’t work, I’d just sit at home all day, rotting,” he said.
Well, he did say he recognises he probably does need to make some lifestyle changes for his health as he added: “I’m now 64 and last week, when the Grim Reaper poked his nose round the door, I decided that actually, I quite fancied living a little bit longer.”
So, now, ‘not dying’ is going to be Clarkson’s ‘eleventh job’.
Topics: Health, TV, Jeremy Clarkson, Celebrity
Jess Battison