Jeremy Clarkson shares sad reason he ‘wasn’t himself’ during Clarkson’s Farm season 4

Jeremy Clarkson’s health issues will be featured in the new Clarkson’s Farm season (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed the sad reason he didn’t feel like himself while filming for his Amazon Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm.

The former Top Gear presenter, 65, started the reality series in 2021 in order to give fans a glimpse of the day-to-day operations at his Diddly Squat farm in the Cotswolds.

Clarkson’s Farm has also been praised for raising awareness of the difficulties facing the farming industry and bringing British farming to an international audience.

Season four of the popular show was released this week, which fans have been waiting for after the devastating end to season three, which saw Jeremy and farmhand Kaleb make very little money for a second year.

On top of all that, Jeremy was rushed to hospital last year for urgent heart surgery after it was discovered by doctors that he had a completely blocked artery.

Which is why he’s now admitted to not feeling himself ahead of the new season, revealing that the last two episodes go in-depth on his health struggles.

The show will be going on a break after season five (Picture: Amazon Prime)

He told The Sun: ‘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. I get in a proper old panic.

‘I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. 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.’

Calling his health problems ‘well-documented’, Jeremy explained that trying to run the farm and its associated pub caused high levels of stress.

Clarkson has undergone several lifestyle changes since his surgery (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)

‘I was coming back 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. It was one thing after another after another.’

The situation, the Grand Tour host says, left him ‘days from death’ and, even after surgery, he has found it hard to have any ‘fun’ after drastically changing his lifestyle.

Earlier this year, however, he wrote in his Sunday Times column that he was determined to keep living for his grandchildren, hoping to live long enough to see them grow up.

‘I was getting straight into the tractor to do grain carting through the night.’ (Picture: John Keeble/Getty Images)

‘I’m not going to dwell on the joys of being a grandparent because what can be said about it has already been said,’ he said. ‘But I have decided that it is so wonderful that I want it to go on for as long as is humanly possible.’

Production on a fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm is already under way but plans for a sixth season have been put on the back burner, with a ‘break’ expected.

In October 2024, Jeremy experienced a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health, and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance – he soon had a stent fitted to help blood flow to his heart.

He also admitted that, during a holiday diving expedition, he felt as though his lungs were ‘filling with water’ and that he ‘couldn’t do it anymore’.

Jeremy had been experiencing discomfort and tightness in his chest prior to the operation, which ultimately saved his life.

Watch Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime Video.

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