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Jeremy Clarkson has shared the awkward downside to his two-stone weight loss when he’s travelling. The former Top Gear host overhauled his fitness and diet after having a health scare that led to emergency heart surgery. The 65-year-old tried the weight loss jab Ozempic but suffered severe sickness, saying it made him feel like a “bulimic Henry VIII” and prompted him to gain half a stone. In March, he revealed he has since switched to “microdosing” Mounjaro, a weight-loss injection recently approved by the NHS, which he said was far more effective. While the Clarkson’s Farm star is pleased with his weight reduction, he revealed he now has difficulty keeping his trousers from falling down when going through security at airports. "Mounjaro problem. I never saw coming,” he wrote on X on Saturday. The Grand Tour star went on: “At airports you're made to remove your belt and then told to stand in the body scanner with your arms in the air. “So you can't hold your trousers up.” Clarkson faced a similar issue with wardrobe malfunctions at the National Television Awards last month. He admitted his trousers were falling down when he went to collect the award for Best Factual Entertainment. “Thank you, everybody,” he told the audience. “I should explain I’m on Mounjaro… my trousers are falling down.” After a failed attempt to hitch them up, his partner Lisa Hogan came to the rescue, holding them in place while he continued with his acceptance speech. “Um, first of all — thank you. Lisa’s going to hold my trousers up while I make a very short speech,” Clarkson joked. The TV star has been on a health kick since he had a stent fitted to his heart last October to improve blood flow after a “sudden deterioration” in his health. Discussing his Mounjaro use, he wrote in The Times: “When you’re on Muntjac [Mountjaro] you can come down in the morning and idly help yourself to a small handful of sunflower seeds. “And it’ll feel like you’ve just finished a massive Christmas lunch. You’re stuffed.” While the drug has curbed his chocolate cravings, he confessed to indulging in a different luxury treat instead - snail caviar. Aside from weight loss jabs, Clarkson recently revealed he is doing Pilates to lose weight. He explained that he has previously failed to get into a fitness routine because he dislikes discomfort, doesn’t enjoy cycling and finds gym-goers “weird”. However, he revealed he now does Reformer Pilates - a full-body workout that uses a bed-like machine with springs and ropes - and joked that he doesn’t “unenjoy” it “mostly because it’s done in slow motion”. Clarkson revealed last October that he noticed serious health issues while on holiday. He detailed how a swim while on holiday in the Indian Ocean appeared to cause him difficulties using the stairs, which when he returned home meant a “sudden deterioration began to gather pace”. He had symptoms of being “clammy”, with a “tightness in my chest”, and “pins and needles in my left arm”, and after hearing the news of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond’s fatal heart attack, he decided to go to see his doctor. The motoring journalist was taken to the hospital, where doctors said he was perhaps “days away” from getting very ill. He was fitted with a stent, which can save lives and stop future heart attacks through improving blood flow to the heart.
