Jeremy Clarkson reveals he was banned from driving by doctor

Available to stream on Amazon prime now, the first episode of series five of the popular TV show has revealed more details of the former Top Gear presenter’s heart scare.

Towards the end of 2024, the 66-year-old revealed that he underwent emergency heart surgery at the hospital after suffering pains after experiencing a “sudden deterioration” in his health.

Still, a heart attack was ruled out after initial checks at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with doctors telling him he was “days away” from one.

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Episode one shows the moment he reunited with farmhand Kaleb Cooper having been discharged from hospital, revealing doctors said no driving for a week and no manual labour for six weeks.

“I was scrolling on my phone, and if I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have had pins and needles in my arm.

“And if I hadn’t got pins and needles I wouldn’t have thought ‘hang on, I’m having a heart problem’ and I wouldn’t have gone to hospital.

Jeremy Clarkson often steals the show on A-level results day (Image: PA)

“Anyway they put me in this big polo mint and they found out I had really bad coronary artery problems.

“You’ve got three arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping. One of them [was] totally blocked. One of them looked like looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District.

“And one of them had got so clogged up it had formed like branches, so my heart wasn’t getting any blood.

“I said, ‘how close was I to a heart attack?’ and he went ‘days’.

“They put a camera up my arm, across my chest and into my arm, you can feel it, you can see my own heart on a TV screen.

“They thought they were going to have to do open heart surgery, then they went up and realised that actually they could mend it so they got the Dyno-rod out, shoved that in, and they had hammers, chisels, cameras.

“And then they put stents which are like pillow pads and stretch it out, so I should be as good as new.”