Jeremy Clarkson jokes ‘fat jabs’ left him looking ‘like a Lowry painting’
By Carla Feric, Press Association Entertainment Reporter
TV star Jeremy Clarkson has joked that taking “fat jabs” left him looking “like a Lowry painting”.
The former Top Gear presenter, 66, has been outspoken about his experiences of taking weight-loss medication such as Ozempic, having previously written in The Times about how it “made me sick”.
He also previously joked that weight-loss drug Mounjaro made his “trousers fall down” as he picked up a National Television Award last year for his popular Prime Video reality series Clarkson’s Farm.
Appearing on Heart Breakfast on Thursday, host Jamie Theakston acknowledged Clarkson’s previous “health scares” as he complimented the TV star and told him he “looks very well”.
Clarkson responded: “Yes, it’s fat jabs.”
“I look like a Lowry painting,” The Grand Tour host added, referencing the thin “matchstick men” figures which artist LS Lowry is famous for.
Clarkson continued: “I’m well, thank you very much. It was quite a fraught year last year but, no, I’m absolutely fine now. Tickety-boo!”
The TV presenter has been candid about his experience with weight-loss jabs, and writing in The Times last March, he revealed that he decided to switch from Ozempic to Mounjaro as the former made him “sick a lot”.
Weight-loss drugs have hit the headlines in recent years, with Clarkson among celebrities including Dame Prue Leith, Sharon Osbourne and Christopher Biggins to reveal they have taken the medication.
The TV star also spoke to hosts Theakston and Amanda Holden about the upcoming series of his hit reality show Clarkson’s Farm, which documents him running his Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Clarkson said: “It is the most dramatic one of the shows we have done so far.
“It gets more and more dramatic towards the end. Yeah, I’ll say no more than that.”
The programme, which first aired in 2021, brings to light problems which British farmers face and the costs of running a farm.
Since deciding to run his farm in 2019 and subsequently launching his popular reality series, Clarkson has become a vocal supporter of farmers and attended a protest in London against the Government’s move to introduce inheritance tax on farmland in November 2024.
Reflecting on this, Clarkson said: “I thought farming when I first started, what seven years ago, you just drive around in a Range Rover, went to the pub occasionally and moaned about the weather and then in February went skiing.
“And I thought, ‘well that’s easy I could do that’. And then I started doing it and it is unbelievably difficult.
“I’m lucky because I’ve often got a film crew here so there’s a lot of people. But when there isn’t a film crew here you start to realise ‘God I’m all on my own all day’ – literally all day, six in the morning until midnight.
“And then you think ‘oh God there’s no money coming in’, because there isn’t.
“You worry about money, you’ve got no one to talk to, you’re on your own. It’s not like most people that work in an office or a shop or wherever, a factory.
“These guys are on their own worrying all day long that the weather is not right and that another subsidy is gone and they’re being forced to grow bird food rather than human food. You know, it is a very distressing industry at the moment.”
