Jeremy Clarkson has revealed doctors have told him to stop working following a recent heart procedure.

The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter was recently fitted with two stents, which improves blood flow to the heart.

He revealed last weekend, in his column in The Sunday Times, that he had to be taken by ambulance to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

After a number of checks at the hospital he was told one of his arteries was “completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way”.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond used to presenters on Top Gear and The Grand Tour.Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond used to presenters on Top Gear and The Grand Tour. (Image: Ian West/PA Wire) Doctors said he was “days away” from getting very ill, and he was fitted with the stents in around two hours.

The hospital trip came after a “sudden deterioration” in his health, which brought on symptoms including being “clammy”, a “tightness in my chest”, and “pins and needles in my left arm”.

Jeremey Clarkson told by doctors to stop working following heart procedure

Now Clarkson, in his latest column in The Sun, has revealed doctors have told him to stop working following the heart procedure.

He is currently host of Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm and ITV’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? as well as a columnist for The Sun and The Sunday Times.

On top of that Clarkson has his own brewery (Hawkstone Brewery), pub (The Farmer's Dog) and the Diddly Squat Farm Shop all in Oxfordshire.

But doctors have said a lot of that work will "have to go", suggesting it be replaced by golf.

However, Clarkson said he has no intention to stop working, instead he will “carry on” and just change his diet.

Clarkson, speaking in The Sun, said: "If I didn’t work, I’d just sit at home all day, rotting."

“The worst problem though is diet. To cut my alarmingly high levels of cholesterol, I need to cut out, completely, ­everything I like eating.

“Bacon, sausages, beef, lamb, pork, butter, chips, proper milk, Cadbury’s fruit and nut bars and the interesting bit in an egg.

“I’ve had a week now to live in the new regime and it’s horrific.”

The amount of exercise (or lack of) was also something Clarkson said he needed to change.

“We must now move on to the question of exercise,” he added.

“I’ve always seen this is something you do when travelling from the car to the pub, or from the lunch table to the sitting room.

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“But apparently, when I’ve rec­overed from the operation, I must do more.”

The 64-year-old said he was aware that his lifestyle was unhealthy, and he was unconcerned by the thought of dying.

However, Clarkson added he now wants to see his “grandchildren grow up”.