Jeremy Clarkson opens up about his deteriorating health

Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about his deteriorating health as fans watch him “get more and more ill” in Clarkson’s Farm season 4.

For the unversed, the documentary series, which has returned on Amazon Prime on May 23, 2025, is about the 65-year-old Television presenter working on his farm in the Cotswolds.

Notably, Clarkson underwent a heart procedure last year and had two stents fitted due to blockage in two arteries. Doctors also prescribed him changes in his diet afterwards.

In a talk with The Sun, the former Top Gear presenter said that in the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm, “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.”

He added, “I get in a proper old panic. I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. Because if you don’t sleep, it very quickly has an effect.”

Clarkson also talked about what it was like before he made it to the hospital in 2024.

He recalled, “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’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem, when you see how stressful it was trying to do those two things - there’s simply no sleep.”

The star returned “knackered from a day trying to get the pub open, and having to get straight into the tractor to do grain carting through the night.”

“You can’t make the harvest wait, if it’s dry, ready and fit, as they say in farming I’ve discovered, if the wheat and barley fit you’ve got to get out there. God it was knackering,” Clarkson remembered.