Jeremy Clarkson preparing for death amid health concerns

The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter lives in Oxfordshire, where he runs Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington and The Farmer’s Dog pub in Asthall, near Burford.

More recently he has become known for starring in Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime, which documents his time running the 1,000-acre farm.

He has been a vocal supporter of the UK’s farming industry regularly highlighting the issues the sector is facing.

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In addition, in late 2024 he marched in London as part of a protest against a new 20 per cent inheritance tax on farms valued over £1 million from April 2026.

With the tax about to come into force, Mr Clarkson has revealed he has been making plans for his death in his latest The Sunday Times column.

It comes as he has previously revealed that he underwent emergency heart surgery last year at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital after suffering pains.

Jeremy Clarkson arrives at the farmers’ protest in London (Image: Supplied)

Since then, he has been on a new, healthier diet, which has resulted in a noticeable weight loss.

In the column, he reflects that if you’re a farmer and die after April 5, the children will have to “sell up” due to the new policy.

With this in mind he said he’s hoping to “hang on until the Labourites have gone” in the hope the policy will be reversed.

He also revealed that he has been preparing for his death, including looking into his will, his donor card and what might happen if he is incapacitated.

Mr Clarkson said: “All I can say is that I ‘would wish not to be in a vegetative sate’ and that I would ‘prefer it if no heroic efforts’ were made to bring me round after a prolonged deprivation of oxygen.”

Luke Hawes at the farming protest (Image: Andy Ffrench)

Farmers have continued to protest the inheritance tax changes since they were announced.

In 2025 in Oxford, local farmers launched a noisy protest involving tractors.

They parked large tractors outside Oxford University’s Examination Schools where the two-day Oxford Farming Conference was being held.

Farmers in tractors sounded horns outside the conference but did not block the High Street as police monitored the peaceful protest.

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Luke Hawes, a beef and arable farmer at Oakley, near Thame, said the protest was a show of unity from farmers.

He added: “The policies the Government is coming up with are not sustainable, particularly the inheritance tax policy on agricultural property and business property relief.

“My father is 81 and owns the family business, which is valued at about £6m.

“But if he dies within seven years of handing it down we could be hit with a massive tax bill.”