Jeremy Clarkson has hit back at vegans following an emergency heart surgery.

The former Top Gear host was recently rushed to hospital after having a health scare as he returned from a holiday in the Indian Ocean.

In his Sunday Times column, Mr Clarkson revealed that he went to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford via an ambulance.

The 64-year-old then went to an “operating theatre”, after further checks, and doctors said he was perhaps “days away” from getting very ill.

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Protestors at Jeremy Clarkson's Hawkstone Brewery.Protestors at Jeremy Clarkson's Hawkstone Brewery. (Image: Protect The Wild)

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Mr Clarkson also recently had to deal with protestors who arrived at his Hawkstone Brewery who handed a letter to the brewery’s manager to pass on to Clarkson.

Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs, Gloucestershire Badger Office, Cotswold Hunt Sabs, Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch, Gloucestershire Badger Group and Action Against Foxhunting all protested at the Oxfordshire brewery at the weekend.

“The letter calls on Clarkson to stop allowing fox hunting to take place on his land, to stop badger setts being tampered with on the land, and to withdraw from the badger cull,” said Three Counties Sabs.

After the news was shared on social media platform X, one commenter said: “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!”

Mr Clarkson responded: “Better than dying of vegetable induced boredom.”

Another poster misquoted the 64-year-old, stating that Mr Clarkson said: “Badgers should be illegally shot, gassed, run over, or even hit over the head with a hammer.”

Mr Clarkson denied this and simply responded: “Never said that.”