You’d think a near-death scare would make a man swap his bacon butty for a kale smoothie. Not Clarkson. He famously said his new diet would be “less fat, less salt, and less sugar.”
But then he added: “I’m still going to eat steak.” And bacon. And probably a whole cow if it made him happy. Old habits die hard, don’t they?
He did give up smoking. That was a big one. He claimed he switched to vaping, which he described as “sucking on a Dyson.” The man can make anything sound ridiculous.
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So, to pin it down: December 2017 is the official month. He was 57 years old. It happened in the Maldives, but the stents went in at a London hospital.
He wrote about it in his column for The Sunday Times. That article is a classic Clarkson read—equal parts bravado, denial, and dry humor. He basically said, “I had a heart thing, but I’m too busy to die.”
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He even joked that his doctor told him to “stop being a pillock.” Doctors have great bedside manners sometimes.
