TV host Jeremy Clarkson revealed he has cancer on the latest episode of his Prime Video show 'Clarkson's Farm'
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- TV host Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer on his hit Prime Video show ‘Clarkson’s Farm’
- While Clarkson didn’t reveal the type of cancer, he said that he underwent surgery to remove part of his prostate
- “It’s aggressive, but it’s really early,” he told costars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland in the show
TV host Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he's been diagnosed with cancer.
Speaking on the Wednesday, June 17, episode of his Prime Video show Clarkson's Farm, the TV host, 66, was filmed breaking the news to costars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland, according to the BBC and Sky News.
"I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it's aggressive, but it's really early," Clarkson said in the episode, per the BBC. He added that he had known about his diagnosis “since May.”
While it's currently unclear when the episode was filmed, the episode was shot between 2024 and 2025, per the outlet.
"I promise I'll be fine," Clarkson continued to Cooper and Ireland, according to the BBC.
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The former Grand Tour host went on to say that he'd be having surgery within the coming weeks and would therefore be “slightly out of action,” per U.K. newspaper The Independent.
While he didn't state his exact form of cancer, Clarkson later revealed in the episode that he had undergone a procedure to remove part of his prostate, the outlet reported.
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“The prostate, 10% of it's dead,” he said in the show, per The Independent. “The 10% where the cancer is.”
The episode later captured Clarkson in a hospital bed, saying that the treatment had gone as expected, the outlet reported.
“I'm going to be here for a little while,” he said, per The Independent. “I don't know what's going to happen."
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“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,” he jokingly added. “Take care, everyone."
On Tuesday, June 16, Clarkson warned viewers ahead of the release of the final episodes that it would be “really, really difficult” to watch.
“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,” he said with a sigh in an Instagram Reel.
“They're a difficult watch,” he added.
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In a 2025 column for U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times, Clarkson revealed that he had regular prostate examinations, per The Independent.
“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 at the time, the outlet added. “You get the all-clear and the doc goes home happy. What's not to like?”
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Clarkson's cancer diagnosis comes after he underwent a heart procedure in October 2024, the BBC reported.
According to the outlet, he wrote in 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."
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