Jeremy Clarkson, 66, reveals he is in remission after being diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer as he says he’s the ‘world’s luckiest man’
Jeremy Clarkson says he is now in recovery after revealing last week that he is battling ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer.
In the fifth finale of Clarkson’s Farm, Jeremy, 66, revealed that he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on his prostate last August and had to undergo treatment.
The final episode ended with the host telling viewers: ‘If this is successful I’ll see you in season six, if not I won’t. ‘Take care of everyone.’
In the series, which was filmed from late 2024 to September 2025, he revealed how he was diagnosed in May last year and told farm mate Kaleb Cooper that 10 per cent of his prostate, ‘where the cancer is’, was ‘dead’.
He began treatment and underwent surgery in August, before being taken back to hospital in dramatic scenes that symbolized the end of the series.
But now, in a new interview, he has opened up about how he is moving on with life now that he is in remission.
Jeremy Clarkson says he is now in recovery after revealing last week that he is battling ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
In the fifth finale of the Clarkson’s Farm series, it was announced that 66-year-old Jeremy was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on his prostate last August and had to undergo treatment.
he said Times: ‘Without a doubt, I am officially the luckiest man in the world. It was an aggressive type of cancer. It could spread, it could go to the pancreas, it could go anywhere, and that could cause problems.
‘That’s why I have to say to everyone reading this, please, please, please go and get checked out. It’s not offensive, it’s not undignified. And that’s a no-brainer.
‘I did, and that’s why I’m sitting here talking to you 11 months later. I have seen many people die from cancer. It’s not based on thinking about what it’s like to live knowing a disease will kill you.’
A follow-up PSA test two months ago revealed no signs of cancer, and he is now officially in remission.
Earlier this week it was revealed that Jeremy will be returning to film the sixth season of Clarkson’s Farm.
Fans of the hit Amazon Prime show will be delighted to hear that the presenter is back in front of the camera after the future of Clarkson’s Farm was thrown into doubt due to his diagnosis.
The presenter was spotted at Diddly Squat Farm with the Amazon Prime camera crew while hosting the UK agricultural fair Cereals last week.
Joined by team Kaleb, Charlie Ireland and girlfriend Lisa Hogan, Diddly Squat saw a record crowd of more than 25,000 visitors descend on the farm to welcome 650 industry attendees.
A source told Sun: ‘He walked through the crowd, stopping to chat with everyone. He was laughing and joking with the other farmers; He even gave a speech.
‘There were cameras and crew filming the scenes.’
The final episode ended with the host telling viewers: ‘If this is successful I’ll see you in season six, if not I won’t. Take care everyone’ (seen with partner Lisa Hogan)
In the series, which was filmed from late 2024 to September 2025, he revealed how he was diagnosed in May last year and told farm mate Kaleb Cooper that 10 per cent of his prostate, ‘where the cancer is’, was ‘dead’.
After the fifth series was filmed, Jeremy announced in his Sunday Times column that a sixth season was being prepared.
He wrote: ‘Season five will air this year and season six has been commissioned and will air in summer 2027.’
Jeremy also said he would stop making Clarkson’s Farm once he ran out of ideas, with a seventh series even possible as he had two ‘pretty good’ ideas of what to focus on in each series.
Fans were moved to tears when Jeremy shared his diagnosis in the final two episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm.
Clarkson was talking to Kaleb and Charlie about her upcoming harvest plans when the publicist dropped them the bombshell news.
The father of three said he had been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer and would have to take leave during the harvest.
While telling the news to Kaleb and Charlie, Clarkson said: ‘You may remember in May, I went for a doctor’s check-up. I disappeared last week and had a biopsy, it’s cancer and it’s an aggressive disease but it’s still very early so there will be a cure, you know.
‘I was praying I could finish the harvest and then I could go and get some treatment but it’s going to be a slap in the middle.’
The farm faced a desperate race to harvest its barley and wheat before the treatment; Complicating things was the fact that Kaleb’s wife was about to give birth to the couple’s third child.
Clarkson praises early diagnosis and intervention as ‘the only reason there is hope’.
‘If I hadn’t gotten myself checked and caught the problem early, this could have been my last harvest. There’s only hope because they caught him early. “I will harvest this farm in the coming years,” he said.
In a later scene, the presenter said she was notified just six days before her surgery, which took place at a London hospital on August 4.
In scenes filmed the previous day, Clarkson appeared nervous as he left the farm with Lisa. “See you on the other side,” he said to Kaleb.
Originally in the final scenes of the series, Clarkson tells Lisa, Kaleb, Charlie and Gerald: ‘So we started the year and I had coronary heart disease and I ended it with cancer.’
He continued: ‘We can go on all we want about all the bad things that happened on the farm, but I think it’s better to focus on the good things that happened at the end of the year.’
When Kaleb asked when they would know if the treatments worked on the cancer, he replied: ‘I don’t know, I have a blood test today, the blood test will be done and then we will find out.
‘Not for a few more weeks. ‘C’mon cheer up, it probably worked.’
Clarkson announced that the shooting was completed after the fireside chat, but the situation changed after she was hospitalized. In the final episode, an ambulance with blue lights followed by the presenter in a hospital bed reveals that things didn’t go entirely as planned.
He said: ‘Some of the treatment went wrong, let’s say I’ll be here for a while. I’m zero word of mouth, I don’t know what will happen.
‘What I meant to say was, if this is successful I’ll see you in season six, if not I won’t. ‘Take care of everyone.’
In a new interview with The Times, he explained that the hiccup was caused by his continued use of pills for previous vascular and heart problems.
He said: ‘This was terrible and it was entirely my fault. I was taking medication for my heart problems and had to stop taking them during cancer treatment. Two or three weeks after cancer surgery, I thought it would be better to start blood thinners again. Big mistake, very big.’
This resulted in an emergency admission to hospital for another procedure to resolve what he described as ‘extraordinarily painful’ issues.
