Jeremy Clarkson will be off work for ‘quite some time’ after pneumonia diagnosis

The Grand Tour presenter was taken to hospital during his family holiday in Majorca 
'Out of action': Jeremy Clarkson will be off work for 'quite some time'
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Jennifer Ruby7 August 2017
The Weekender

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Jeremy Clarkson has said that he will be off work for “quite some time” after being diagnosed with pneumonia.

The Grand Tour host, 57, will be “out of action” while he recovers from the illness, which left him hospitalised while he was in Majorca last week.

Keeping his fans updated on his condition, the presenter said that he was “really annoyed” about having to miss work as he hadn’t had a sick day in nearly 40 years.

“Thanks for all the good wishes. And to keep you up to date, I'll be out of action for quite some time apparently. It's really really annoying because I've never had one day off work since I started in 1978,” he wrote on his website, Drive Tribe.

On Sunday, Clarkson’s representative confirmed that he was still being treated in a Spanish hospital after the star shared a picture of himself with tubes in his arm.

The former Top Gear host posted a photo of himself with a drip in his arm and hospital wristband on, writing: “Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday.”

A spokesman for The Grand Tour said: "Jeremy Clarkson was admitted to hospital on Friday morning during a family holiday in Spain and is being treated for pneumonia."

Clarkson was on a break with his family after shooting the Amazon Prime show with co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, when he fell ill.

He was due to return to filming the new series of the show following his family holiday.

In a message on Twitter, the ex-Top Gear host told friend Jemima Goldsmith that he was "in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital".

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