
Jeremy Clarkson is so afraid of contracting type 2 diabetes that he is now injecting himself with a diabetes-prevention medication, which has reduced his appetite.
The Grand Tour host, who was recently chastised by Prince Harry for his ‘cruel’ column about Meghan Markle in which he said he ‘hated’ the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed he is now taking Ozempic, a new Danish drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and as an anti-obesity medication for long-term weight management.
Clarkson, 62, explained that he was introduced to the medication after learning that several of his friends were using it to treat a common ailment in which the amount of glucose in the blood becomes excessively high.
‘It turned out they’d all started taking a new Danish drug called Ozempic, and when questioned they all raved about it,’ he penned.
‘You inject yourself once a week, upping the dose each time, and it dulls your appetite.

‘You can look at a Sunday roast, with gravy and beef and perfect Yorkshire puddings, and you think: “I’ll just have a stick of celery instead. And maybe just the one bottle of wine, rather than three.”’
Clarkson paid an eye-watering £140 for his first monthly prescription, which he will now be on for the next two years, after doctors gave him the all-clear.
He characterised the medication as ‘genuinely incredible’ in terms of how it has impacted his health.
‘I can open the fridge, where there’s half a chicken and a juicy bottle of rosé, and I want neither,’ he penned in his latest Sunday Times column.
‘Of course, I’ll have to insert some balance in the future, or I’ll, you know, die. But for now, it’s tremendous.’
He added: ‘I never used to know what Kate Moss was on about when she said that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, but I think, on my new wonder drug, I soon will.’
Last May, Clarkson opened up about his weight loss efforts after realising that none of his shirts ‘fit any longer’.
The host revealed that he had set up a makeshift gym in his garden room, complete with’very exquisite’ equipment, and hired a gym teacher to assist with his transformation goals.