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Jet-Fighter7700
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^^^ only because he never moves fast enough to do any damage, being slow has its advantages.....
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Jeremy Clarkson Is The Latest Grand Tour Host To Be Hospitalized, This Time For Pneumonia
Former Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson has been hospitalized for pneumonia while on vacation, marking the second time one of the show’s hosts has been delayed from filming for health scares this year.
Clarkson is currently on vacation in Majorca and was hospitalized on Friday, according to a statement from a Grand Tour spokesperson. According to the BBC, he won’t be able to return to work for at least another week, and joked on his Drivetribe fan page that he was annoyed because he hasn’t had a day off since 1978. I completely believe him.
This is the second time a Grand Tour host has been hospitalized this year, with Clarkson following co-host Richard Hammond, who was lucky to make it out alive after a major crash in a Rimac electric supercar during filming back in June.
It’s still not completely clear whether or not Hammond’s crash, and now Clarkson’s illness, will impact or delay the filming for the second season of their Amazon Prime show. Here’s just hoping both Hammond and Clarkson are recovering well, and that James May has locked himself somewhere sterile, temperate and safe so he can ride out whatever hex is haunting the show’s leads.
The Grand Tour is set to return to Amazon Prime this October, granted we can all make it there in one piece.
http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-is-the-latest-grand-tour-host-to-be-hos-1797578223
Former Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson has been hospitalized for pneumonia while on vacation, marking the second time one of the show’s hosts has been delayed from filming for health scares this year.
Clarkson is currently on vacation in Majorca and was hospitalized on Friday, according to a statement from a Grand Tour spokesperson. According to the BBC, he won’t be able to return to work for at least another week, and joked on his Drivetribe fan page that he was annoyed because he hasn’t had a day off since 1978. I completely believe him.
This is the second time a Grand Tour host has been hospitalized this year, with Clarkson following co-host Richard Hammond, who was lucky to make it out alive after a major crash in a Rimac electric supercar during filming back in June.
It’s still not completely clear whether or not Hammond’s crash, and now Clarkson’s illness, will impact or delay the filming for the second season of their Amazon Prime show. Here’s just hoping both Hammond and Clarkson are recovering well, and that James May has locked himself somewhere sterile, temperate and safe so he can ride out whatever hex is haunting the show’s leads.
The Grand Tour is set to return to Amazon Prime this October, granted we can all make it there in one piece.
http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-is-the-latest-grand-tour-host-to-be-hos-1797578223
KleinBoontjie
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We, here is SA, brushes of Pneumonia as nothing, a common cold. But it's quite dangerous for the Brits, they sommer die of it.
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Pneumonia turns Clarkson's holiday into nightmare
Jeremy Clarkson says he will be "out of action for quite some time" as he battles pneumonia in a Spanish hospital after being taken ill on a family holiday.
The 57-year-old was admitted on Friday after being struck down by the dangerous lung infection and is still recovering.
The Grand Tour presenter, who is on Majorca with his children and girlfriend, posted a picture on Instagram of tubes in his arm and hospital identity tags around his wrist, writing: "Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday."
On Twitter he said he was "in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital".
Clarkson was on a break after shooting the Amazon Prime show with co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May when he fell ill. Two months ago Hammond, 47, had to be airlifted to hospital after his car crashed and burst into flames while filming.
Hammond escaped with no serious injuries, but last night Clarkson posted on Instagram a picture showing May with his hair standing on end and commented: "The only functioning member of the Grand Tour team right now. God help us."
Clarkson had planned to return to work after his holiday but told his followers on social media he would now be off for some time.
"It’s really really annoying because I’ve never had one day off work since I started in 1978," he said.
Co-presenter Hammond tweeted a link to the message and joked: “Wow. I didn’t know he had a job.”
Clarkson reportedly earns £10 million (R174m) a year for making 12 episodes of The Grand Tour and is in a relationship with Irish actress Lisa Hogan.
http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/indus...rns-clarksons-holiday-into-nightmare-10670663
Jeremy Clarkson says he will be "out of action for quite some time" as he battles pneumonia in a Spanish hospital after being taken ill on a family holiday.
The 57-year-old was admitted on Friday after being struck down by the dangerous lung infection and is still recovering.
The Grand Tour presenter, who is on Majorca with his children and girlfriend, posted a picture on Instagram of tubes in his arm and hospital identity tags around his wrist, writing: "Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday."
On Twitter he said he was "in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital".
Clarkson was on a break after shooting the Amazon Prime show with co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May when he fell ill. Two months ago Hammond, 47, had to be airlifted to hospital after his car crashed and burst into flames while filming.
Hammond escaped with no serious injuries, but last night Clarkson posted on Instagram a picture showing May with his hair standing on end and commented: "The only functioning member of the Grand Tour team right now. God help us."
Clarkson had planned to return to work after his holiday but told his followers on social media he would now be off for some time.
"It’s really really annoying because I’ve never had one day off work since I started in 1978," he said.
Co-presenter Hammond tweeted a link to the message and joked: “Wow. I didn’t know he had a job.”
Clarkson reportedly earns £10 million (R174m) a year for making 12 episodes of The Grand Tour and is in a relationship with Irish actress Lisa Hogan.
http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/indus...rns-clarksons-holiday-into-nightmare-10670663
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Worth it, starts bit slow, but a good watch
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Jeremy Clarkson Almost Died From Pneumonia
Pneumonia is serious business, as poor ex-Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson discovered. He nearly died from the sickness while on vacation.
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Last week, we learned that while vacationing in Mallorca, Clarkson was hospitalized due to pneumonia and wouldn’t be able to return to work for at least another week. He was very seriously ill, as it turns out.
Taking to his latest column in the Sunday Times, Clarkson recounted that he had spent three nights “spasming” in bed and then decided that a trip to see the doctor might be necessary. After some tests at the hospital, he was given some very sobering news:
“A healthy person’s CRP should be five,” said Mark Spitz [the doctor]. “Yours is 337.”
I had no idea at the time what a CRP was — it turns out to be something your body makes more of when you have an infection — but 337 sounded a lot.
“If you don’t do as I say,” he added, “you will die.”
I did understand that.
I suppose it’s something that we take for granted in 2017—that sicknesses like pneumonia, strep throat or bronchitis can usually be cured by an antibiotic and lots of water and rest. But Clarkson’s hospital visit and near-brush with death reminds us that sometimes we can’t just sleep it off.
On top of everything else, Clarkson said that the deadliest thing he faced in the hospital wasn’t even the pneumonia, it was boredom.
Normally, when I’m bored, I smoke. Or drink. But both those things were out of the question. I just had my drugs. Thousands of them. There was one that caused lightning bolts to ricochet around in my toes and one that would apparently ruin my stomach and loads more I didn’t understand, but there was one that was — and remains — the highlight of my day. I was hooked.
It’s called Fluimucil Forte, and its purpose is revolting. It’s designed to dislodge the phlegm and the gunk in my lung and bring it up in the sort of dark, meaty globules we haven’t seen since Mrs Thatcher shut down the mines. But holy sweet Jesus. It’s a taste sensation.
This is the problem with hospitals. People who stay in them become institutionalised and incapable of speaking about anything other than what nurse brought what drug at what time. Boredom turns them into bores.
We’re glad that Clarkson is feeling well enough again to write and post pretty Instagram photos. And that nothing more serious happened.
http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-almost-died-from-pneumonia-1797861892
Pneumonia is serious business, as poor ex-Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson discovered. He nearly died from the sickness while on vacation.
Article preview thumbnail
Last week, we learned that while vacationing in Mallorca, Clarkson was hospitalized due to pneumonia and wouldn’t be able to return to work for at least another week. He was very seriously ill, as it turns out.
Taking to his latest column in the Sunday Times, Clarkson recounted that he had spent three nights “spasming” in bed and then decided that a trip to see the doctor might be necessary. After some tests at the hospital, he was given some very sobering news:
“A healthy person’s CRP should be five,” said Mark Spitz [the doctor]. “Yours is 337.”
I had no idea at the time what a CRP was — it turns out to be something your body makes more of when you have an infection — but 337 sounded a lot.
“If you don’t do as I say,” he added, “you will die.”
I did understand that.
I suppose it’s something that we take for granted in 2017—that sicknesses like pneumonia, strep throat or bronchitis can usually be cured by an antibiotic and lots of water and rest. But Clarkson’s hospital visit and near-brush with death reminds us that sometimes we can’t just sleep it off.
On top of everything else, Clarkson said that the deadliest thing he faced in the hospital wasn’t even the pneumonia, it was boredom.
Normally, when I’m bored, I smoke. Or drink. But both those things were out of the question. I just had my drugs. Thousands of them. There was one that caused lightning bolts to ricochet around in my toes and one that would apparently ruin my stomach and loads more I didn’t understand, but there was one that was — and remains — the highlight of my day. I was hooked.
It’s called Fluimucil Forte, and its purpose is revolting. It’s designed to dislodge the phlegm and the gunk in my lung and bring it up in the sort of dark, meaty globules we haven’t seen since Mrs Thatcher shut down the mines. But holy sweet Jesus. It’s a taste sensation.
This is the problem with hospitals. People who stay in them become institutionalised and incapable of speaking about anything other than what nurse brought what drug at what time. Boredom turns them into bores.
We’re glad that Clarkson is feeling well enough again to write and post pretty Instagram photos. And that nothing more serious happened.
http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-almost-died-from-pneumonia-1797861892
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The Grand Tour: Organisers fined for Hammond's huge crash
Richard Hammond's crash on a Swiss hill in June has come back to haunt the organisers of the hillclimb. Motorsport.com reported that its national sports authority fined them $5000.
Jalopnik reported that the organisers actions were "illegal" prior to the crash involving a Rimac Concept One being filmed for the Grand Tour show.
Hammond, a former 'Top Gear' host, was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee. The Rimac Concept One electric supercar he was driving was reduced to a twisted, blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.
Filming for the show took place on the same weekend as the first race of the Swiss hillclimb season and its reported that Hammond and his co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May weren't official competitors.
Motorsport.com says the Swiss Motorsport Authority, Auto Sport Schweiz, ruled that the Grand Tour's "runs did not conform to the FIA’s International Sporting Code, and that the incident acted against the interests of the sport."
http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/the-grand-tour-organisers-fined-for-hammonds-huge-crash-20170817
Richard Hammond's crash on a Swiss hill in June has come back to haunt the organisers of the hillclimb. Motorsport.com reported that its national sports authority fined them $5000.
Jalopnik reported that the organisers actions were "illegal" prior to the crash involving a Rimac Concept One being filmed for the Grand Tour show.
Hammond, a former 'Top Gear' host, was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee. The Rimac Concept One electric supercar he was driving was reduced to a twisted, blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.
Filming for the show took place on the same weekend as the first race of the Swiss hillclimb season and its reported that Hammond and his co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May weren't official competitors.
Motorsport.com says the Swiss Motorsport Authority, Auto Sport Schweiz, ruled that the Grand Tour's "runs did not conform to the FIA’s International Sporting Code, and that the incident acted against the interests of the sport."
http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/the-grand-tour-organisers-fined-for-hammonds-huge-crash-20170817
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I wouldn't call $5k a haunting...
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Craig_
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Finished GT and cancelled my subscription again, was worth it only for GT, but the variety on Amazon is bad, you can barely watch anything in SA.
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I binge watched. The only series I binge watched in months. Enjoyed it and can't wait for the second series to come out.
satanboy
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Don't you find the "star dying" sketch tedious?
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I just chalked it up to first season teething issues. Hopefully they've canned that segment. That being said, why Top Gear has a monopoly on interviewing celebrities is beyond me. That's like Jay Leno suing Conan, Dave Letterman etc for hosting a chat show. :wtf:
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The first few episodes it annoyed me to no end, but then I got used to it.
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