Jeremy Clarkson reveals heart attack near miss in new season

Television presenter and farmer Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was days away from a fatal heart attack, a health crisis documented in the new season of his series "Clarkson's Farm." The 66-year-old detailed the emergency during the show's fifth season premiere, which began streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Clarkson recounted that a coincidental moment of feeling pins and needles in his arm while scrolling on his phone prompted him to seek medical attention last year. He was subsequently rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Doctors discovered severe coronary artery disease, with one artery completely blocked, another severely narrowed, and a third so clogged it had developed bypass branches, severely restricting blood flow to his heart. When Clarkson asked a doctor how close he had been to a heart attack, the response was "days."

The condition was treated with stents rather than open-heart surgery, a procedure Clarkson described in detail, joking that he should now be "as good as new." Medical advice following the procedure included six weeks of rest, a dietary overhaul, and abstaining from alcohol and meat.

Despite these instructions, footage from the new season shows...