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<\/p>\nJeremy Clarkson, 65, has revealed that the intense demands of running a pub alongside his farming ventures took a serious toll on his health – as he reveals, “it messed with my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Top Gear host took over The Farmer\u2019s Dog pub in Asthall, near Oxfordshire, during the summer. <\/p>\n
In addition to managing the 14th-century pub – initially lacking gas, running water, and adequate electricity – he continued working on his Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton, famously featured in Clarkson\u2019s Farm on Prime Video.<\/p>\n
While audiences have seen the highs and lows of Clarkson\u2019s agricultural efforts, he says managing a pub has been even more challenging. <\/p>\n
While audiences have seen the highs and lows of Clarkson\u2019s agricultural efforts, he says managing a pub has been even more challenging<\/p>\n
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Speaking to The Sun\u2019s TV magazine, he explained how balancing pub renovations with the farm’s harvest season meant working around the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was working 20 hours, 24 hours sometimes – literally round the clock,\u201d Clarkson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like hard work. If I don’t do something constructive in a day, I can’t really get to sleep that night. But that was silly, and it did actually mess my heart up. <\/p>\n
“It’s very stressful running a pub, it’s more stressful than running a farm.\u201d<\/p>\n
His overexertion came to a head when he began experiencing symptoms mimicking a heart attack while on holiday. <\/p>\n
MORE LIKE THIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n The symptoms intensified after returning home, with Clarkson struggling to climb stairs and feeling chest tightness, clamminess, and tingling in his left arm.<\/p>\n Doctors ruled out a heart attack but discovered one of his arteries was fully blocked, prompting emergency surgery and the fitting of a stent. <\/p>\n Since then, Clarkson has had to dramatically overhaul his lifestyle.<\/p>\n In a column for The Sun, he wrote: \u201cLiterally, I am not allowed to have fun any more.<\/p>\n “If I go to a party, I must stand in a corner, nursing some refreshing elderflower juice, before going home at about 9.30. That\u2019s terrifying.”<\/p>\n By October, Clarkson reported he had to give up nearly all his favourite foods – \u201cbacon, sausages, beef, lamb, pork, butter, chips, proper milk, Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut bars, and the interesting part of an egg.\u201d<\/p>\n Clarkson’s Farm returns for its fourth season on Friday, May 23, with Clarkson continuing his chaotic efforts to manage Diddly Squat Farm and a the pub<\/p>\n AMAZON<\/p>\n He later told Best magazine about his new routine: “My phone flashed up this morning, and it read, you are taking far fewer steps this week than last. It also said, you are eating far fewer sausages. I now eat celery, and I feel better for it.”<\/p>\n Last week, Clarkson made a worrying comment about his latest back problem in his column, and revealed it could impact the future of his Amazon Prime Video series, Clarkson’s Farm.<\/p>\n He said: “I’d do a sixth [season of Clarkson’s Farm] if there was a reason for doing it, like a bl**dy good story. But if, say, my back turns out to be cancerous then I wouldn’t.”<\/p>\n Clarkson’s Farm returns for its fourth season on Friday, May 23, with Clarkson continuing his chaotic efforts to manage Diddly Squat Farm and a the pub.<\/p>\n Viewers are set to meet 24-year-old newcomer Harriet Cowan, a farmhand who temporarily replaced Kaleb Cooper while he was away on a speaking tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson, 65, has revealed that the intense demands of running a pub alongside his farming ventures took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,12437,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-116180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-clarksons-farm","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114538359450359257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jeremy](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jeremy-clarkson-pub.png\")
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