Jeremy Clarkson hits back at cruel troll who tells him to quit eating meat after heart scare
JEREMY Clarkson has taken down a troll online after he was criticised for eating meat.
TV presenter Jeremy, who has recently undergone life-saving heart surgery, responded to the jibe on X in his own inimitable style.
One plant-positive troll berated the star’s carnivorous appetite online.
They wrote. “And now he seems to have had a heart attack and needed surgery.
“What does he expect eating all that meat? He can’t be surprised!”
The Grand Tour star replied: “Better than dying of vegetable-induced boredom.”
The Clarkson’s Farm star was previously told how he was days away from death in a major health scare.
Jeremy revealed he needed an operation to clear blocked arteries after feeling ill on a recent holiday.
He told The Sun: “I’m very grateful to everyone who sent supportive messages but I’m fine.
“I just have to not do any manual labour or dishwasher emptying for the next four years.
“At least I think that’s what the doctor said.”
Clarkson first felt unwell while on a break on an Indian Ocean island.
He wrote in The Sunday Times: “I was at the breakfast table and when I stood up to leave, I had to take a moment to make sure my limbs were working properly.”
He later had issues trying to dive, swim and walk which continued after his holiday.
One day he felt “clammy and there was a tightness in my chest”.
A doctor was called to his Cotswolds farm when he noticed “pins and needles” in his left arm.
Jeremy was then taken by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
He said: “It seems that of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way.
“The question was this. Were the arteries so ruined that I’d need an emergency heart bypass?
“Or could he use Dyno-Rods and ultrasonic battering rams to loosen them up before inserting a stent?
“Mercifully, this turned out to be possible.”
The host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? went on: “I was off to the operating theatre.
“Because my bankruptcy was most definitely just around the corner. Days away? ‘Maybe’, he (a doctor) said.”
A stent was then inserted into the blocked artery to keep it open and restore blood flow to the heart.
Jeremy said: “It wasn’t especially painful. Just odd.”
He returned home the next day, and said he thought: “Crikey, that was close.”
The farm owner said in an interview with The Guardian back in April about his mortality: “I don’t have long. I’ve probably only got what, 70,000 hours left, maybe?”