Jeremy Clarkson opened up on his health fears: ‘Things won’t get better’
Jeremy Clarkson recalls ‘hilarious day’ on the farm
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A new instalment of The Grand Tour will be released on Amazon Prime this Sunday, titled “Carnage A Trois”. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will set off from Wales towards the English Channel, exploring the world of French cars along the way. This is the second of potentially three UK-based specials, although it is likely the next will see the team leave Britain for the third. Clarkson has also been busy in recent years with his farm, as seen in his hit series on the streaming service.
In November, Clarkson also opened up on his health concerns, but added that he’s “nowhere near finished” with what he wants to achieve in his lifetime.
In an interview with the Guardian, he candidly discussed his health fears having reached the age his father was when he died.
He said: “I used to think I’d put out my last cigarette age 107 and just die. But I stopped smoking four years ago.
“When my dad died at 61, I thought, ‘That’s a pretty good innings.’
“Now I’m 61, if I died, I’d be furious, I’m nowhere near finished.”
Clarkson added as a joke: “So, yes, I think about dying every day. There’s your headline.
“In 40 years, I shall be dead and nobody shall remember me.”
One thing that provoked the former Top Gear star to think more about his health was his positive test result for Covid around Christmas 2020.
He said at the time that he was fearing he would “die alone in a plastic tent”.
Writing in his column for The Sun, Jeremy said: “My knees give me no confidence when I’m coming down a flight of stairs.
“My back locks solid if I attempt to walk up a hill.
“My lungs feel as if they’re on fire if I even look at a bicycle, and when I go for a swim it feels as though I have a small car on my back.”
Jeremy also spoke about his image, and was self-deprecating in the process.
Clarkson continued: “Things aren’t going to get any better, because soon there will be lumps and gristle and hip operations that will force me to spend what time I have left in a rocking chair, trying to finish an interesting story in the Reader’s Digest about azaleas.
“It saddens me to think that I have now dived off a boat for the very last time, and been down my last black run.
“I may never see the dawn again, either, unless I have to get up early for another annoying stagger to the loo.”
Clarkson spoke about the upcoming Grand Tour series in the Sunday Times Magazine this week.
He talked about why the new special will focus on French cars.
He said: “I should make it clear that I have an abiding respect for the French. I admire their almost total disregard for the feelings of others and I much enjoy my time in their country.
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“I even like eating their buntings. But I will admit that they are a bit weird. And you can see this in the cars they make.
“Renault made a car that was completely back to front. Matra made a two-seater sports car that had three seats. And Citroën — again — gave us a car with the stereo mounted vertically between the front seats so all the crumbs from your pain au chocolat would fall into the cassette slot.
“This is the French way. One of our researchers — a French woman — said that her parents have never sold a car, and none of her friends have either.
“They all just buy something small and cheap and then literally run it into the ground. And this seems to be the case no matter how successful they become. The French Premier League star N’Golo Kanté drives a Mini with a stoved-in wing, last time I looked.”
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