Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Diagnosed With "Aggressive" Prostate Cancer

Top Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson Shares "Aggressive" Cancer Diagnosis

Jeremy Clarkson is sharing a difficult update about his health.

The British TV personality—who is best known for hosting the BBC series Top Gear and The Grand Tour—shared he’s been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer during the last two episodes of his series Clarkson Farm.

"I’ve got cancer," Clarkson told friends Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland in the penultimate episode of season five, which was filmed some time 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. But it’s really early.”

He promised his friends, “I’ll be fine,” though he warned he’d be out of commission for a little while to undergo surgery.

In the finale, which was released in a two-episode drop on June 17, Clarkson shared more insight into his diagnosis, noting he’d undergone surgery and they’d removed 10 percent of his prostate which had become “dead” tissue due to the cancer.

"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," the 66-year-old stressed in the episode. "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."

Prior to the TV episodes airing, Clarkson shared a video message with his social media followers warning them that the usually comforting Clarkson’s Farm—which has followed his journey becoming a first-time farmer across five seasons—would be dealing with some more serious topics.

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“Ordinarily, we try to keep the show bucolic and charming and cheerful," he said in the June 16 video. "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.”

Season five of Clarkson Farm—which was filmed across 2024 and 2025—ended with Clarkson reflecting on his health after also suffering from heart issues in October 2024.

"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 mused. “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.”

In the meantime, he signed off with, “Take care, everyone.”

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