Jeremy Clarkson shares unexpected health updates: The truth about the silent battle he is facing!
Former Top Gear presenter shares news during final moments of latest season of Clarkson’s Farm
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he has cancer.
The 66-year-old presenter was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of the disease last summer.
He revealed the diagnosis during the final two episodes of the fifth series of his Amazon Prime documentary Clarkson’s Farm, which sees him breaking the news to Kaleb Cooper, his farm manager, and Charlie Ireland, his land agent.
“I’ve got cancer,” Clarkson tells them in the scene filmed last year. “I had a medical, remember, back in May? I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive.”
Though he did not clarify what type of cancer he had, Clarkson revealed that 10 per cent of his prostate had been removed as part of his treatment.
Asked about the form of the disease by Cooper, he said: “Where it is, is of no concern to anybody.”
Cooper was in tears at news of the diagnosis, saying “I don’t like this”, to which Clarkson responded: “I wasn’t thrilled.”
However, Clarkson reassured Cooper and Ireland that the disease had been caught “really early”.
The former Top Gear host said: “If I hadn’t have got myself checked out and they hadn’t caught the problem early, this could well have been my last harvest. It’s only because they did catch it early, there’s every hope that I’ll be harvesting this farm for many, many years to come.”
At the end of the series’ final episode, Clarkson is seen in a hospital bed.
“So we started season five in a hospital bed and here we are at the end of season five, I’m back in a hospital bed,” he says, referring to an earlier heart scare. “Some of the treatment has gone awry, let’s say. I’ll probably be here for a little while.”
In a message to fans, he says: “What I wanted to say was: if this is all successful, I’ll see you for season six. And if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care, everyone.”
Clarkson had previously warned fans on social media that the final instalments of the season would be “a difficult watch”.
“Ordinarily, we try to keep the show bucolic and charming and cheerful. But the final two episodes are none of those things, really. They’re a difficult watch. They’re really, really difficult,” he said.
In October 2024, he had a health scare over a suspected heart attack, going to hospital after experiencing tightness in his chest and tingling in his arm.
Doctors found that, although he had not suffered a heart attack, he had blocked coronary arteries that required an urgent angioplasty.
At the beginning of this latest series of Clarkson’s Farm, he tells Cooper: “The Grim Reaper will have to wait. It was f—ing close, though.”
Clarkson urged men to get their prostate checked last June, saying: “I’ve had too many friends go down with prostate cancer, and all it takes to get on top of the situation early is a moment or two of being a bit cross-eyed.
“You get the all-clear and the doc goes home happy. What’s not to like? I went home very happy because the initial probing and photographing suggests all is well.
“And let me tell you, nothing makes you feel better than knowing for sure you’re not going to drop dead tomorrow morning.”
The Telegraph has been calling for targeted prostate screening so men at the greatest risk are offered tests. But earlier this month the Government’s advisers rejected this proposal, recommending that tests should be rationed to “just a few thousand” men.
Production on the sixth series of Clarkson’s Farm is expected to pause to allow the presenter time to recuperate.