'Top Gear' star Jeremy Clarkson reveals 'aggressive' cancer diagnosis after health scares

Date: 2026-06-18 15:20:17 Source: The Dev Journal Author: Database

TV host Jeremy Clarkson revealed that he is battling cancer during the latest episodes of his hit show "Clarkson's Farm."

In the final two episodes of the Prime Video documentary series' fifth season, the 66-year-old British television personality shared that he had been diagnosed with cancer while speaking to his co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper, according to the BBC and the Guardian.

"I had a medical, remember, back in May?" Clarkson said, per the Guardian. "I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it's aggressive, but it's really early."

The "Top Gear" star said that he had known about his diagnosis "since May." According to the Guardian, the episodes, which dropped on Wednesday, were filmed last year.

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"I promise I'll be fine," Clarkson told Ireland and Cooper.

According to the U.K. outlet The Independent, Clarkson said that he would be undergoing surgery in the coming weeks and would be "slightly out of action."

"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," Clarkson shared, per the Guardian. "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."

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In the following episode, Clarkson told Cooper that he underwent a procedure during which a part of his prostate was removed.

"The prostate, 10% of it is dead, the 10% where the cancer is," he said, according to Sky News.

In a later scene, Clarkson told co-star Gerald Cooper that he "had the op."

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"Just fingers crossed it's worked, we don't know yet," he said, according to the BBC.

In the final scene of the episode, which was the season five finale, Clarkson was seen at a hospital.

"We started season five with me in a hospital bed, and here we are at the end of season five and I'm back in the hospital bed," he said, according to the BBC.

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"Some of the treatment's gone a bit awry, let's say, so I'm going to be here for a little while," Clarkson continued. "I'm nil by mouth, I don't know what's going to happen."

"But if this is all successful, I'll see you for season six, and if it isn't, I won't," he concluded. "Take care everyone."

According to the Independent, the opening episodes of the fifth season centered on Clarkson's October 2024 heart health scare and his recovery from emergency surgery.

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On Tuesday, Clarkson shared an Instagram video in which he told his fans that he had some "somber news" to share regarding the new episodes of "Clarkson's Farm."

"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 … they're none of those things really," Clarkson said.

"They're a difficult watch," he added with a sigh. "They're really, really difficult."

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In a 2025 column for The Sunday Times, Clarkson shared that he undergoes health screenings every couple of years and regular prostate exams. The "Grand Tour" host also urged men not to avoid prostate exams out of embarrassment.

"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," he wrote. "You get the all-clear and the doc goes home happy. What's not to like?"

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Clarkson opened up about his previous health scare and emergency heart surgery in a 2024 column for The Sunday Times. He recalled that his doctor told him that he might have been "days away" from a life-threatening cardiac event.

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The TV personality wrote that he experienced a "sudden deterioration" in his health after returning from a vacation. He described feeling "clammy," having a "tightness in my chest" and "pins and needles in my left arm."

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After testing at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, Clarkson underwent emergency heart surgery and received two stents.

"It seems that of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way," he wrote.

Clarkson recalled reflecting on how close he came to having a heart attack following the procedure.

"The next morning I went home, and here I am, two hours later, writing this and sort of thinking, 'Crikey, that was close,'" Clarkson wrote.

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