Jeremy Clarkson has had an urgent heart operation after a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health.
The 64-year-old former Top Gear host was ‘maybe’ days away from death when he underwent two hour surgery with Clarkson admitting: ‘Crikey, that was close.’
He started to feel unwell after swimming in the Indian Ocean while on a ‘small island’ on holiday and later found it difficult to climb a flight of stairs.
Clarkson returned to Britain and a ‘sudden deterioration began to gather pace’ with him feeling ‘clammy’, ‘tightness in my chest’, and ‘pins and needles in my left arm’.
Alex Salmond’s recent tragic death from a massive heart attack had sparked the motoring journalist to see his GP.
It comes as the star posted on Instagram Sunday that his dog had also gone under the knife this week in what he referred to as a ‘s**t week’.
The worrying health update comes just two days after Clarkson appeared on a post on his Instagram account with what seemed to be a white surgical plaster on his wrist.
Clarkson wrote in his column in The Sunday Times how he felt ‘mostly dead’ after returning to the beach after a short swim.
He spent the rest of his break on a tropical island eating cheese and drinking wine.
