Jeremy Clarkson issues health update after falling ‘more and more ill’ while filming Clarkson’s Farm

Jeremy Clarkson, 65, has admitted to falling “more and more ill” while filming season 4 of Clarkson’s Farm.

His hit reality TV show recently returned for its fourth season on Amazon’s Prime Video, but the former Top Gear presenter revealed he was battling health issues while managing Diddly Squat 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 told The Sun.

Jeremy 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.”

Now, in his latest column in The Times, he spoke of undergoing an emergency heart surgery, which included the insertion of a stent for his blocked arteries.

Following a review of the Mercedes-Benz G 580, he penned: “I have a trapped nerve in my back at the moment.

“It’s fine if I’m not doing anything, but in the G 580, not doing anything is impossible because it pitches and yaws and rolls all the time, and you never have any idea what it’s going to do next. So you can’t ever brace yourself.”

Jeremy added that getting out of his car and back into his partner Lisa Hogan’s Range Rover “was like getting out of an economy seat on a new airline called Air Turbulent, and into a bed at the world’s most peaceful hotel”.

He previously suffered a health scare in 2017 when he was hospitalised while on vacation in Majorca and battled a severe case of pneumonia.

Despite his health troubles, the Grand Tour star insisted that filming Clarkson’s Farm is still the best show he’s done in years, as it allows him to be his authentic self.

In an interview with the Telegraph, he explained: “It’s the real me on the farm show.

“There’s no Top Gear nonsense. It’s much more relaxing not to play a part.”

Speaking of Top Gear, he admitted that along with himself, his co-stars Richard Hammond and James May were also different on that show to how they are in reality.

“We were caricatures on those car shows. James was not as boring as we made him out to be, Hammond was not as stupid, I was not as bombastic,” he admitted.