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UK presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, 66, reveals in TV show he has cancer
He has cancer in his prostate.
June 17, 2026, 06:40 PM
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English presenter Jeremy Clarkson revealed that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
In the seventh episode of the fifth season of his television series, "Clarkson’s Farm", the 66-year-old revealed the diagnosis at about 39 minutes and 30 seconds into the episode.
In an Instagram video, the former "Top Gear" presenter told fans that the episode would be a “difficult watch” before its release.
How he broke it
Clarkson disclosed the news to series regulars 49-year-old Charlie Ireland and 27-year-old Kaleb Cooper.
The episode was filmed in May 2025, as per The Guardian, at Diddly Squat, his farm in Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, England.
In it, he revealed the diagnosis to both of them.
The episode was released in the UK on Tuesday night.
Sickening
In the episode, titled “Sickening”, the trio were discussing dates for harvesting on his farm.
Ireland proposed to conduct the harvesting process “in the end of July”.
“F*ck,” Clarkson responded.
“I’ve got cancer,” he added.
He added: “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.”
The diagnosis caught the cancer at a “really early stage”.
Clarkson further claimed that he had to undergo treatment and was unable to participate actively in harvesting.
Ireland and Cooper were both visibly shocked by the news.
He 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.”
When asked where the cancer was at, Clarkson deflected.
“Where is of no concern of anybody,” he said.
He also added that he had “known since May”.
He then talked about the treatment schedule and went back to discussing farm operations with the pair.
Heart surgery
Clarkson’s underlying health issues have been a subject in the fifth instalment of the series.
The fifth season of "Clarkson's Farm" opened with him discussing a heart surgery he underwent in October 2024.
Clarkson also wrote about his experience in his column for The Sunday Times, citing that a stent was inserted into his arm to keep an artery open and ensure proper blood flow.
“At one point it felt like he’d put a Hoover pipe up my arm, along with a pile driver,” he wrote.
Revealed it was prostate cancer
In later scenes, after undergoing a procedure, he revealed it was prostate cancer.
“The prostate, 10 per cent of it’s dead,” he said. “The 10 per cent where the cancer is.”
He is filmed in a hospital bed at the end of the series.
“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 said, in reference to the heart operation.
“Some of the treatment has gone awry, let’s say. I’ll probably be here for a little while.”
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson, also known as Jeremy Clarkson, is an English television presenter.
He is best known for hosting motoring television programmes, such as BBC's "Top Gear" from 2002 to 2015 and "The Grand Tour" from 2016 to 2024 after being fired from BBC, alongside his co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond.
In 2021, he launched "Clarkson’s Farm" on Amazon Prime, which follows his attempts to run his own farm.
The fifth season is currently ongoing, with new episodes releasing every Wednesday.
