Jeremy Clarkson updates fans after life-saving heart operation

Jeremy Clarkson gave fans a major health update after revealing he was 'days away from death' before his live-saving heart operation last month.

The presenter, 64, has revealed he is 'better than ever' as he was spotted returning to work just weeks after his major health scare. 

The former Top Gear host was spotted at his pub with his Clarkson's Farm right hand man Kaleb Cooper in exclusive pictures from The Sun.

The media personality was seen using a machine to move logs while being helped by Kaleb who dug a hole for a bonfire.  

Jeremy was filming for the new series of his hit show Clarkson's Farm and was later mobbed as he got into his in the car park of The Farmer's Dog pub near his Diddly Squat farm.

The star told fans he was fine after they asked for a health update and one visitor told the publication: 'It was great to see him looking so well after what has happened. I was in the pub with my girlfriend and then we went out to the car park and spotted him.

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'He seemed really cheerful. We asked about how he was feeling after the heart procedure and he said, "I'm feeling fine — better than ever". I shook his hand and wished him well. And Jeremy said, 'I'd like to stop and chat but I've got a busy day with loads to do'.' 

Jeremy's outing comes after he revealed last month he was 'days away from death' before undergoing an urgent heart operation recently.

The presenter had to have the procedure after a 'sudden deterioration' in his health, with the star 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.

Jeremy 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'.

After sharing the news in his Sunday Times column on Sunday, he shared a further update about his health.

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.'

Alex Salmond's recent tragic death from a massive heart attack had sparked the motoring journalist to see his GP.

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.

It was only when he returned to Britain and he was loading 30 pigs onto a 'slaughterhouse school bus' that he noticed pins and needles in his left arm.

He then went to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford via an ambulance, where a heart attack was ruled out after he had an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests and X-rays.

He said he then went to an 'operating theatre' on Wednesday, after further checks, and doctors said he was perhaps 'days away' from death.

Once there he was fitted with a stent to his hold his arteries open, to improve blood flow to his heart and relieve his chest pain.

A stent is a wire mesh tube that props open arteries. To open the narrowed artery, the surgeon may perform what's known as an angioplasty.

This involves making a small incision in a patient's arm or leg, through which a wire with an attached deflated balloon is thread through up to the coronary arteries

Describing what he called the 'wearisome effects of growing old', Clarkson 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.'

He said a stent, which can save lives and stop future heart attacks through improving blood flow to the heart, was fitted in around two hours.

The motoring journalist said: 'It wasn't especially painful. Just odd,' and added that he has been thinking: 'Crikey, that was close.'