Jeremy Clarkson has disclosed that he has been diagnosed with what he described as “aggressive” cancer in an emotional moment featured on his Amazon Prime Video series.
The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter shared the news in the final two episodes of Clarkson’s Farm season five, which were released overnight.
In the scenes, the 66-year-old appears visibly emotional as he breaks the news to his stunned co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper, who help run Diddly Squat Farm with him in the Cotswolds.
The revelation comes as the trio discuss their plans for the upcoming harvest, before Clarkson suddenly interrupts the conversation with the deeply personal update.
During the exchange, Clarkson leans back in his chair and, fighting to maintain his composure, tells the shocked pair: “I’ve got cancer.”
An incredulous Kaleb responds immediately: “No, you haven’t. Where?” Clarkson then replies: “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.
He 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.
Jeremy Clarkson was visibly emotional as he revealed his devastating cancer diagnosis in the latest episodes of his Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm
He shared the news with shaken co-stars Charlie and Kaleb Cooper during a scene on the show
‘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 throws his support behind him, saying: ‘Look after yourself, you go and do… if you need anything just ring.’
Clarkson says he needs an operation and as a result his body will be ‘out of action for a little while’, adding that he ‘wasn’t thrilled’ at the prospect.
In a later scene speaking with his girlfriend Lisa Hogan, Kaleb, Charlie and Gerald, Clarkson says: ‘So we started the year and I had coronary heart disease and ended it with me with cancer.
‘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.
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
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, posting a clip on his Instagram yesterday warning viewers that the upcoming episodes would be ‘difficult’ to watch.
He said: ‘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 none of those things really.
‘They’re a difficult watch. They’re really, really difficult.’
Meanwhile, 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.
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.
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’
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.
