Jeremy Clarkson reveals he has cancer: Tearful presenter shares devastating diagnosis while filming for Clarkson’s Farm

Jeremy Clarkson revealed he has been diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ cancer in a devastating clip for his Amazon Prime Video show.

The former Top Gear and Grand Tour host shared the news in the final two episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm, which were released overnight.

The episodes saw the visibly emotional 66-year-old relay the news to his shaken co-stars Charlie and Kaleb Cooper, who run his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds with him.

He revealed on the series, filmed from late 2024 to September 2025, how he had been diagnosed with cancer in May last year.

It is understood to be prostate cancer: later in the show he said that ‘ten percent’ of his prostate is ‘dead’, adding: ‘The 10 per cent where the cancer is.’

Becoming visibly emotional, he added: ‘They’re really, really difficult.’

On the show the trio were talking about their plans for the upcoming harvest when the broadcaster dropped the bombshell news on them.

After establishing the farm’s crops will be ready for harvest at the end of July, Clarkson exhales and says: ‘F***’.

As Kaleb asks if he is ‘going away’, Clarkson leans back into his chair and, while struggling to keep his composure, tells the shell-shocked pair: ‘Yep. I’ve got cancer.’

A disbelieving Kaleb quickly says back: ‘No, you haven’t. Where?’ to which Clarkson says: ‘Where it is of no concern of anybody. I’ve known since May.’

The father-of-three goes on to reveal he has been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer and will have to take time off during the harvest.

Taking to Instagram ahead of the release of the final episodes overnight, Clarkson revealed in an openly emotional video that they are a ‘really, really difficult watch.’

After sharing that his lager and cider brand Hawkstone would have an advert ahead of England’s first World Cup match tonight, he continued: ‘Sombre news: 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 are, they’re none of those things really, they’re a difficult watch.’

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Jeremy Clarkson was visibly emotional as he revealed his devastating cancer diagnosis in the latest episodes of his Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm

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Taking to Instagram ahead of the release of the final episodes overnight, Clarkson revealed in an emotional video that they are a ‘really, really difficult watch’

He shared the news with shaken co-stars Charlie and Kaleb Cooper during a scene on the show

While telling Kaleb and Charlie the news, Clarkson says: ‘I had a medical, you 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 so the treatment will be, you know.

‘I was praying we could get the harvest done and then I could go and get some treatment but it’s going to be slap bang in the middle.’

Meanwhile, a tearful Kaleb – who is seen wiping his eyes during the conversation – throws his support behind him, saying: ‘Look after yourself, you go and do… if you need anything you just ring me.’

Clarkson reveals that treatment includes an operation ‘slap bang in the middle’ of harvest time, and that as a result his body will be ‘out of action for a little while’, adding that he ‘wasn’t thrilled’ at the prospect.

Charlie tells him: ‘I just wish you a very, very speedy recovery.’

He then quickly turns back to harvest arrangements, telling the pair that his girlfriend, Lisa Hogan, will need to take on some of his duties.

In a later scene, the presenter said he was given just six days notice ahead of his operation, which took place at a hospital in London.

The farm faced a desperate race to harvest its barley and wheat before the treatment, with matters complicated by Kaleb’s wife being due to give birth to their third child soon after.

While carrying out the harvest, Clarkson hails early detection and intervention as the ‘only reason there is any hope’.

‘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 any hope. I’ll be harvesting this farm for many, many years to come.’

In a conversation with Lisa, Kaleb, Charlie and Gerald, Clarkson says: ‘So we started the year and I had coronary heart disease and ended it with me with cancer.

After revealing his diagnosis the programme shows Clarkson in a hospital bed, where he reveals ‘some of the treatment has gone awry’

Clarkson was seen shaking Kaleb’s hand as he departed the farm after sharing the diagnosis with them

‘We can dwell as much as we like on all the bad things that have happened on the farm but I think it is better now at the end of the year to focus on things that have happened that are good.’

When asked by Kaleb when they will know if the treatments have worked on the cancer, he replies: ‘I don’t know, I’ve got a blood test today, there’ll be a blood test and then we’ll know.

‘Not for another few weeks. Come on cheer up, it probably did work.’

However, the show then moves on to show Clarkson in a hospital bed, where he reveals it hasn’t gone completely to plan.

He says: ‘Some of the treatment has gone awry, let’s say, I’m going to be here for a little while. I’m nil by mouth, I don’t know what’s going to happen.

‘What I wanted to say was if this is all successful I’ll see you for season six and if it isn’t I won’t. Take care everyone.’

Clarkson had hinted beforehand that not all was well, and in a press release ahead of the first episodes of the fifth season, Prime Video ominously warned: ‘In the climactic episodes, things turn dark as bad luck strikes from every direction, causing massive upset and tension in every way possible.’

However, Clarkson has kept busy since the show was filmed, with production currently underway for the new series of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, which he hosts, while a sixth season of Clarkson’s Farm has been ordered by Prime Video.

Production of the next series is expected to pause to allow Clarkson time to recover.

It comes after a difficult couple of years for the broadcaster, who was rushed to hospital in 2024 after suffering from chest pains.

While on the ward, doctors discovered one of his arteries was ‘completely blocked’ with the presenter later saying he had been ‘days from death’.

Fortunately surgeons were able to resolve the issue by inserting a stent – a tiny, expandable mesh tube that is placed in narrow or blocked coronary arteries to restore and aid the flow of blood.

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The presenter, 66, previously fell ill with excruciating chest pains in 2024 and was rushed to hospital by ambulance, where doctors discovered one of his arteries was ‘completely blocked’

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Clarkson previously revealed doctors told him he was ‘days’ away from having a heart attack during his terrifying 2024 health scare

When he returned to work after that health scare in one of the early episodes of the fifth series, Clarkson told Kaleb: ‘I’m back and not dead. The grim reaper will have to wait. It was f***ing close, though.’

The former Top Gear host revealed he first felt unwell in 2024 following a swim in the Indian Ocean while on holiday.

He explained that ‘it wasn’t far, maybe the length of two swimming pools. But when I finally reached the beach, there was more water in my lungs than there is in Lake Superior, and I was mostly dead.’

Clarkson returned to Britain and a ‘sudden deterioration began to gather pace’ with him feeling ‘clammy’, ‘tightness in my chest’, and ‘pins and needles in my left arm’

This led him to being admitted to hospital where a heart attack was ruled out after he had an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests and X-rays.

Following the life-saving surgery, he was warned by doctors that he must make major changes to his lifestyle.

Since it was first released on Amazon Prime in 2021, Clarkson’s Farm has become a huge hit and gone on to have four successful series.

Series five was announced back in December 2024, followed by filming last year and wrapping up in February 2026.