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Jeremy Clarkson tests positive for Covid-19 again and has typically blunt responseAlistair McGeorge
Clarkson responded to the news as you’d expect (Picture: Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle/GC Images)
Jeremy Clarkson only had one word to described his positive Covid-19 test and it’s very on brand.
The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm host – who first battled the coronavirus over Christmas 2020 – has confirmed he’s once again contracted the respiratory illness, although he didn’t offer any details regarding potential symptoms.
He simply shared a photo of his positive test on Instagram, and wrote: ‘B***ocks.’
Fair.
His post was flooded with messages of support – some with similarly colourful language – as one follower wrote: ‘Not again Jezza’
‘Oh, c**k,’ another replied, while a different fan commented: ‘Take care and get well soon Jezza’
It’s the second time he’s fought the virus, with that positive test coming just four days before the first Covid Christmas.
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At the beginning of January 2021, he revealed he came down with Covid-19 during the festive season after waking up with ‘soggy sheets’ and a constant dry cough.
After testing positive, Jeremy told The Times: ‘The doctor was very clear: I’d feel under the weather for between five and 14 days and then I’d either get better or I’d have to go to hospital.
‘Where, because I am 60 and fat, and because I’ve smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I’d probably die, on my own, in a lonely plastic tent.’
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Jeremy was forced to self-isolate with his wife and children in the ‘smallest cottage in Christendom’, where he ‘took [himself] off to bed […] to wait for the Grim Reaper to pop his head round the door’.
‘I’m not going to lie — it was quite scary,’ he added. ‘With every illness I’ve had, there has always been a sense that medicine and time would eventually ride to the rescue, but with Covid-19 you have to lie there, on your own, knowing that medicine is not on its way and that time is your worst enemy.’
Thankfully, Jeremy noted he ‘didn’t feel too bad’ as he weathered the storm but he was worried about his doctor’s warning that things could suddenly get worse when his breathing started to get laboured.
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