Jeremy revealed earlier this year that he was in remission, after his cancer diagnosis and the impact that followed were featured on the Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm.
Richard, 56, discussed the subject during an appearance on Times Radio, where he was asked how his former 66-year-old colleague is doing now.
“I believe he’s fine,” Richard said. “It was some distance in the past, because obviously there’s a time lag between when the show happened and when they’re seen on the show. But no, I believe he’s very well, he’s still irritating, all of those things. Generally speaking it means he’s alive.”
Jeremy, 66, spoke openly earlier this summer about both his diagnosis and his remission, telling The Times how close the illness had come to becoming far more serious.
“I am without a doubt, officially, the world’s luckiest man,” he said. “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.”
He later shared a direct message with fans in a video posted to Instagram, saying: “You will have noticed that I’m not dead. The reason why I’m fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.”
Jeremy’s cancer diagnosis came after another major health scare, with the presenter having undergone heart surgery in 2024 to treat blocked arteries using stents.
Since going public with his prostate cancer experience, Jeremy has used his platform to raise awareness and urge more men to get tested. Richard, meanwhile, has not shared a significant new update about his own health, though he has previously said he continues to deal with the long-term effects of his 2006 jet car crash, nearly two decades on.
Richard was driving a Vampire jet car at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire when the front right tyre punctured at close to 300mph, sending him off the runway and into the grass. He was later in a coma after suffering a frontal lobe brain injury.
The former Grand Tour presenter later admitted that he was suffering from something known as “lost key syndrome” which some speculated could be him referring to dysexecutive syndrome. This refers to a condition associated with frontal lobe damage.
Explaining how his everyday life changed a couple of years ago, Richard told LADBible: “I think anybody who’s suffered a brain injury will probably agree that it never leaves you in the sense that there’s always a little bit of you [confused] if you lose your car keys or you forget something.
“Mine was a frontal lobe injury, which would explain that. I’m left thinking, ‘Oh no. Is that because of the brain injury? Or is it because I’m now 54? Is it just because I’ve lost my keys? The doctors actually call it ‘lost key syndrome’ and it goes on and on.”
