Terrifying moment Jeremy Clarkson struggles for breath as he's rushed to hospital
The Clarkson's Farm star has been struggling with his health.
The new series of Clarkson's Farm has documented the terrifying moment that Jeremy Clarkson struggled to breathe. The 66- year-old experienced a heart scare in October 2024 and was rushed to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where medics warned he was just "days away" from a potentially fatal heart attack.
After his health emergency, Jeremy was instructed to avoid driving for a week and refrain from any manual labour for six weeks, but he couldn't help getting stuck into some jobs on the farm. During the second episode of series five, which landed on Prime Video on Wednesday, Jeremy decides to head out and fell a tree for his Christmas grotto at his pub. He lies on the ground and begins cutting the tree with a handsaw, but is quickly forced to halt as his breathing becomes laboured.
He ultimately abandons the task and with discomfort visible on his face as he gets back up, he struggles to control his breathing for several moments.
Between breaths he confesses to the film crew: "I shouldn't have done that."
It's not the only instance in the new series' opening four episodes that Jeremy ignores medical advice.
He travels to London for a farming rally near Whitehall, where he ends up delivering a speech.
However, afterwards he admits: "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."
The presenter also opened up about being just "days away from death" in the upcoming opening episode of Clarkson's Farm series five, revealing that he received an alert about a potentially deadly condition when he was browsing on his phone.
"I was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn't been doing that, I wouldn't have got pins and needles in my arm," he reveals to farm manager Kaleb Cooper in the series opener.
"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 the hospital."
Medical scans subsequently uncovered serious coronary issues, with the TV presenter learning from doctors that a heart attack had been merely "days" away.
