Jeremy Clarkson’s Mediterranean holiday ends in hospital with pneumonia
Jeremy Clarkson, star of The Grand Tour, has been admitted to hospital after becoming ill with pneumonia while on holiday in Spain.
The television host and motoring journalist fell ill while enjoying a family break on the island of Mallorca after shooting the Amazon Prime show with cohosts Richard Hammond and James May.
The three are former hosts of the BBC car programme Top Gear.
They signed with Amazon for The Grand Tour after Clarkson was fired for punching a producer in a dust-up while filming.
In a social media post that showed his sense of humour was very much still intact, Clarkson, 57, uploaded a photograph on Instagram showing a cannula and hospital ID attached to his arm.
The caption read: “Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday.”
It is unclear whether his bout of illness will delay filming for The Grand Tour, which he was due to resume on his return to the UK.
Clarkson’s hospital admission comes only two months after Hammond was flown to hospital when he crashed his car during filming.
The 47-year-old was lucky to escape with only a fractured knee after the electric supercar he was driving in Switzerland crashed and burst into flames.
It was the second close call for Hammond who almost died when he crashed while filming for Top Gear in 2006.
Clarkson, Hammond and May toured the world filming episodes for the 13-episode first season of the Amazon Prime show, with stops in California, Lapland and Nashville.
Finishing the first season in Dubai, their giant mobile studio tent was set up at the base of the Burj Khalifa during their visit at the end of last year.
And Hammond was seen filming a stunt in Downtown Dubai, during which he drove what appeared to be a tank over a roundabout.
The final episode showed a traffic-free Sheikh Zayed Road being used as a racetrack for a contest between a Bugatti Veyron and a Porsche 918.