Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer during filming of the fifth series of his documentary series Clarkson’s Farm.
On the show, Clarkson, 66, is seen telling visibly shocked co-stars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland the news.
The former Top Gear presenter did not reveal what form of cancer he had been diagnosed with, but he did say it had been caught early.
The TV presenter went on to say: “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.”
He told them he had known “since May”, although it is not clear what year this was.
“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 said.
“I promise I’ll be fine,” he told the two men, adding that he would be out of action “for a little while”.
Later in the episode, he was seen in a hospital bed waiting for surgery.
Several hours before the release of the final two episodes, Clarkson posted an Instagram video warning fans that they would be a “really, really difficult watch”.
The fifth series of the Amazon Prime show began filming in 2024 at his Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
Clarkson revealed in his column in The Sunday Times that he had a stent fitted at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after experiencing a “sudden deterioration” in his health after returning from holiday in October 2024.
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