Jeremy Clarkson, 66, issues a health update and his ‘fat jabs’ experience as he jokes he now looks ‘like a Lowry painting’

Jeremy Clarkson has posted an update on his health after the latest trailer for Clarkson’s Farm detailed his terrifying scare.

The 66-year-old presenter previously claimed he was ‘days away from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his Cotswolds home in 2024.

Appearing on Heart Breakfast on Thursday, Jeremy talked about his “anxious” year and his experience with “fat punches”.

Presenter Jamie Theakston, 55, said: ‘I can tell you you look very good. I know you’ve had a few health concerns lately.’

Jeremy replied: ‘Yes, that’s hard knocks. ‘I look like a painting by Lowry.’

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? she told hosts Jamie and Amanda Holden that she was doing “very well.”

He said: ‘Last year was quite a worrying year but no, I’m absolutely fine now. Ticket-boo!’

Elsewhere in the interview, Jeremy admitted he once thought farming was just ‘riding around in the Range Rover, going to the pub and skiing’, and issued a stark warning that farming is ‘a very distressed industry at the moment’.

The presenter was on the show to talk about the Hawkstone Choir ahead of the Britain’s Got Talent final.

He said: ‘When I first started farming I thought seven years ago you were driving around in the Range Rover, going to the pub occasionally and complaining about the weather, and then going skiing in February.

‘ ‘Well, that’s easy to do,’ I thought. Then I started doing it and it’s incredibly hard. I’m lucky because I usually have a film crew here, so there are a lot of people. But without a film crew here, you start to realize: “God, I’m on my own all day.” Literally all day from six in the morning until midnight.

‘And then you think, ‘Oh my God, the money isn’t coming in,’ because there isn’t. And then think carefully about what happens if you are a real farmer like these guys and the rest of the people in the choir.

‘You’re worried about money, you have no one to talk to, you’re on your own. He’s not like most people who work in an office, a store, or wherever, in a factory. These guys have been worrying all day that the weather isn’t right, another subsidy is gone, and they have to grow birdseed instead of human food.

The 66-year-old presenter previously claimed he was ‘days away from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his home in the Cotswolds in 2024.

Presenter Jamie Theakston, 55, said: ‘I can tell you you look very good. I know you’ve had a few health concerns lately.’ Jeremy replied: ‘Yes, that’s hard knocks. ‘I look like a Lowry painting’

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? she told hosts Jamie and Amanda Holden that she was doing “very well.” He said: ‘Last year was quite a worrying year but no, I’m absolutely fine now. Ticket-boo!’

‘You know, it is a very troubled sector right now. But it’s really cool that the chorus continues because we only put it together to make ridiculous commercials for the Hawkstone beer brand. And then they all said ‘this is great, we’ll just stay together’.’

Streaming giant Amazon Prime has confirmed that Clarkson’s Farm will be released on June 3, with episodes one to four releasing on the same day, followed by episodes five and six on June 10. The last two episodes will air on June 17.

Jeremy said series five was “the most dramatic series yet”.

He said: ‘This is the most dramatic demonstration we have ever done. And it gets increasingly dramatic towards the end. Yeah, I won’t say any more than that because we’re not actually doing any PR for this series.’

The first trailer was released on Monday; Clarkson was reflecting on her own mortality after being warned by attending doctors to take a break.

The TV personality previously claimed he was ‘days away from death’ after falling ill with excruciating chest pains at his Cotswolds home in 2024.

He was then taken by ambulance to the nearby John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where doctors discovered one of his arteries was ‘completely blocked’.

Surgeons then solved the problem by placing a stent, which is a small, expandable porous tube inserted into narrow or blocked coronary arteries to help and restore blood flow.

There are farm concerns elsewhere; Clarkson’s preferred watering hole, the Farmer’s Dog, faces a number of problems, including the potentially troublesome arrival of travellers.

Clarkson’s Farm, which follows former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson as he runs his Cotswolds farm, Diddly Squat, first hit Amazon Prime in 2021.

The show was a huge hit and spawned four successful series.

The fifth series was announced in December 2024, followed by filming last year and wrapping in February 2026.