Jeremy Clarkson has revealed his unusual funeral plans.
The broadcaster turner farmer, 65, discussed his end-of-life arrangements in his Sunday Times column, where he was reacting to the incoming changes to the Agricultural Property Relief (APR).
Clarkson is not happy about the changes, as from April 6, farm landowners will pay inheritance tax if they pass on their farms to their family after their death if they’re worth over £2.5million.
But the farmer says he has a “clever plan” to “hang on until the Labourites have gone”.
When he does go, he also said he wanted to gift his former Top Gear co-stars something “irritating”.
“Keep me on life support, death is too taxing... Richard Hammond gets my trousers and James May a cow — but thanks to Rachel Reeves I’ll struggle to give what I want to my children,” he wrote.
During his funeral, he also said he wants the full 23 minute-long version of 1973 rock song Supper's Ready by Genesis to be played.
Clarkson also said he won’t donate his organs or be cremated and said he’d like to be buried in the “the Yukon, for no other reason than it’s seriously inconvenient”.
In 2024, the presenter revealed he was just days from death before he underwent heart surgery to clear blocked arteries.
Clarkson detailed how a swim while on holiday in the Indian Ocean appeared to cause him difficulties using the stairs, which when he returned home meant a “sudden deterioration began to gather pace”.
He says he had symptoms of being “clammy”, with a “tightness in my chest”, and “pins and needles in my left arm”, and after hearing the news of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond’s fatal heart attack, he decided to go to see his doctor.
Clarkson says he 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”, after further checks, and doctors said he was perhaps “days away” from getting very ill.
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.”
