Jeremy Clarkson says he is officially in remission from prostate cancer, less than a week after revealing he had an “aggressive” form of the disease in the final episodes of Clarkson’s Farm’s fifth season, which were filmed in 2025.
“I am without a doubt, officially, the world’s luckiest man,” said the former Top Gear presenter in an interview with the Sunday Times.
Clarkson told the paper he had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test two months ago, which showed no indication of cancer. “It was an aggressive type of cancer. It could have spread, it could have gone into the pancreas, it could have gone anywhere, and that would have been trouble.”
The 66-year-old posted two videos to Instagram over the weekend, in which he said season six of Clarkson’s Farm is in production and that “the more observant among you will have noticed that I am not dead”.
“I’m not just not dead, I’m perfectly fine,” he said on social media. “And the reason why I am fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.”
In the video, Clarkson continued to urge others to get tested, saying the procedure is “just a blood test these days”.
Clarkson tole the Times he will continue to have regular blood tests to monitor his health and he is aware the cancer could return. “I try to be positive. I’ve decided to be one of the 60% who doesn’t have a recurrence,” he said.
“If there’s just one person, a single person in the world, who watches Clarkson’s Farm and thinks, you know what, I’m gonna get myself checked, and discovers it early, and it’s treated, and they lead a normal life, then it’s worth being an illness bore.”
In the final two episodes of season five of Clarkson’s Farm, Clarkson said he had undergone an operation to remove 10% of his prostate, eight months after he had undergone heart surgery for blocked coronary arteries. “The prostate, 10% of it’s dead,” he said on the program.
Shortly after the show’s release, charity Prostate Cancer UK said Clarkson’s diagnosis and treatment would raise “vital awareness”.
