‘Crikey, that was close’: Jeremy Clarkson reveals he needed heart procedure | Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he had a coronary heart process after waking up feeling “clammy” with a tightness in his chest and pins and needles in left arm.

The 64-year-old former High Gear host stated he was taken to hospital by ambulance earlier than having a stent fitted to open up a blocked artery, which left him considering: “Crikey, that was shut.”

Writing in his Sunday Instances column, Clarkson detailed how he skilled a “sudden deterioration” in his well being after a vacation on a small island within the Indian Ocean.

Through the journey, he described having to “take a second to verify my limbs had been working correctly” earlier than struggling to swim two lengths of a swimming pool.

“I used to be principally useless. I’ve by no means struggled with swimming earlier than, and now, all of a sudden, I can’t do it any extra. Nor may I descend a flight of stairs, not with out holding somebody’s hand.” he stated. “I’m not exaggerating. These issues all manifested themselves in at some point.”

The Clarkson’s Farm presenter, who lives in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, stated his “sudden deterioration started to assemble tempo” when he returned residence.

He stated: “I woke on Wednesday morning not feeling too good. I used to be clammy and there was a tightness in my chest. Naturally, I ignored these items and, after loading 30 pigs into the slaughterhouse college bus, I seen that I had pins and needles in my left arm.”

Clarkson stated he went to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, the place an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood checks and X-rays dominated out a coronary heart assault. However he stated that after additional checks he went to an working theatre with docs saying Clarkson was maybe “days away” from getting very sick.

Clarkson stated: “It appears that evidently of the arteries feeding my coronary heart with nourishing blood, one was fully blocked and the second of three was heading that method.”

He stated a stent, which might save lives and cease future coronary heart assaults via enhancing blood movement to the center, was fitted in about two hours. “It wasn’t particularly painful. Simply odd.”

He stated he was “questioning what water tastes like and if it’s doable to make celery attention-grabbing” after the well being scare.

In 2017, Clarkson stated he needed to stop smoking after contracting pneumonia on vacation in Spain.

Final month Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James Might ended their present The Grand Tour on Prime Video.

Clarkson, who just lately opened a pub, the Farmer’s Canine, in Asthall, close to Burford, has continued to make Clarkson’s Farm, which covers him operating his Oxfordshire farm, on Prime Video, in addition to Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? on ITV.