Jeremy Clarkson Reveals ‘Aggressive’ Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has prostate cancer in an episode of his show, Clarkson’s Farm.

He broke the news on-screen to co-stars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland. “Where it is is of no concern of anybody. I’ve known since May,” he said, when Cooper asked where the cancer was.

The former Top Gear presenter added that he had undergone a biopsy after a medical check-up. “I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive, but it’s really early,” he said.

He added, “I promise I’ll be fine” and that he’d be out of action “for a little while”. And while Clarkson said on the show he’d hoped to have finished the busy harvest season before receiving treatment, it fell “slap bang in the middle”.

Later in the season, the ex-Grand Tour star said that “the prostate, 10% of it’s dead… the 10% where the cancer is”.

We also see footage of the 66-year-old from a hospital bed, where he says some of the treatment has gone “awry” and continues: “I’m going to be here for a little while. I don’t know what’s going to happen.

“What I wanted to say was if this is all successful, I’ll see you in season six, and if it isn’t, I won’t… Take care, everyone.”

Before the show’s new episodes were released on 16 June, Clarkson posted a video to his Instagram warning viewers that the new season would prove tough viewing.

“Ordinarily, we try to keep the show bucolic and charming and cheerful, but the final two episodes which drop in the middle of the night tonight are… they’re none of those things, really, they’re a difficult watch.

“They’re really, really difficult,” he continued.

In a previous interview with The Times, Clarkson said that he gets regular check-ups because he’d seen “too many friends go down with prostate cancer”.

“All it takes is a moment or two” to check your status, he added.

Clarkson’s Farm farmhand, Gerald Cooper, had previously been diagnosed – he became cancer-free in 2024.

Clarkson underwent a heart procedure that same year, writing for his column for the Sunday Times that “of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way”.