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British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson off work with pneumonia

Reuters - UK Focus

By Emma Rumney

LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson (LSE: CKN.L - news) , who gained worldwide fame as presenter of the BBC motoring show "Top Gear", will be off work for "quite some time" after falling ill with pneumonia while on a family holiday.

The star tweeted on Friday that he was "in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital" in Mallorca, Spain after catching the infection, which causes fluid to build up in the lungs.

"I'll be out of action for quite some time apparently," Clarkson said on Sunday in a post on DriveTribe, a discussion website founded by Clarkson and co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May.

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The trio now work on Amazon's "The Grand Tour", another motoring show filming its second season, after departing the BBC following a dispute between Clarkson and a member of the "Top Gear" production team.

Hammond is also recovering from a fractured knee after he crashed a sports car while filming for the show on June 10. The presenter had surgery to insert a metal plate and pins, resulting in what he described as his "Swiss Army Knee". (Reporting by Emma Rumney; Editing by Alistair Smout and Robin Pomeroy)