The presenter recently underwent surgery to remove part of his prostate (Picture: Instagram/Getty)
Jeremy Clarkson has issued an update on his cancer diagnosis, in a new video shared to his social media.
In the latest series of Clarkson’s Farm, the presenter, 66, revealed that doctors had discovered a particularly ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer.
However, he also said that it had been caught early, and that he had undergone surgery to remove part of his prostate.
Posting a follow-up video to his Instagram account on Saturday, Clarkson began: ‘The more observant among will have noticed I’m not dead.
‘I’m not just not dead, I’m perfectly fine,’ he continued, joking: ‘My eyebrows in particular are looking very lustrous.’
He finished: ‘The reason why I’m fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early and they caught it early because I got tested.’
Clarkson urged his followers to ‘get tested’ (Picture: Getty Images)
The video seemed to come direct from Clarkson’s farm, and featured the former Top Gear host walking through what looked like one of his meadows.
After sharing the good news, he went on to encourage his followers to get themselves checked out, even if it means, ahem, embellishing symptoms to get a blood test.
’10, 12 thousand people – men – die every year of prostate cancer,’ he said.
‘Don’t be one of them. Get tested,’ he signed off.
Among those celebrating Jeremy’s good news was his daughter, Emily Clarkson, who shared a tender-black and white selfie with her Instagram followers.
This came accompanied by a quote from her dad’s interview with The Times, which read: ‘This is why I say to everybody who’s reading this, please, please go and get checked. It’s not uncomfortable, it’s not undignified.
‘And it’s a no-brainer. I did, and that’s why I’m sitting and talking to you.’
She tagged both her father and the charity Prostate Cancer UK in the post.
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Elsewhere in his interview with the publication, he confirmed he was officially in remission after a PSA test two months ago showed no indication of cancer.
He recalled: ‘I was talking to David [Cameron] about it earlier this morning. He said the amount of people that come up to him is mostly in public conveniences and say, if you hadn’t owned up to it, I wouldn’t have got checked, and they wouldn’t have found it..’
The former Prime Minister revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis in November 2025.
Clarkson continued: ‘So now there’s a group of us, [food writer] Giles Coren, David, me, one or two other people, and we meet for lunch every so often. Everybody has different Gleason scores, and everybody has different Stockholm and PSA scores. We all compare notes and I actually get muddled with what mine were.
‘But it is quite funny watching people looking at us and going: “That’s quite an interesting group of people, what do they all share in common?”.’
In the comments beneath Clarkson’s own post, fans were quick to celebrate his good news, with dame_rho thanking him for being ‘so candid about it.’
‘I’m glad you’re mentioning the blood test because not everyone knows about it. It saves lives!’ this user added.
The sentiment was echoed by runningwestwardho, who said: ‘If it wasn’t for you I would never have checked my 🍒 and I would not have discovered I had testicular cancer, which had already spread.’
Clarkson revealed his diagnosis on an episode of his Amazon show (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)
Elsewhere in his interview with The Times, Clarkson had described himself as ‘the world’s luckiest man,’ sharing his fear that it could have spread to the pancreas or ‘anywhere.’
Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, which is a small gland located just below the bladder.
It is one of the most common cancers, typically affecting older men, and is highly treatable if caught early.
However, it is often slow-growing and symptomless in its early stages, and the risk rises with age, family history and certain genetic mutations.
When symptoms do appear, they usually involve changes to urination or sexual health and are caused by the tumour pressing against the urethra.
According to Prostate Cancer UK and NHS data, prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, with a record 64,425 new cases recorded in 2022.
Clarkson’s diagnosis was revealed during an episode of his show (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)
Clarkson’s diagnosis came during the final episodes of his self-titled show’s fifth series.
He told co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper: ‘I’ve got cancer,’ revealing that he’d known since May.
Later in the episode, Clarkson shared that he’d undergone surgery to remove ‘10%’ of his prostate, which is where the cancer lay.
He could later be seen speaking from a hospital bed, saying that the treatment had ‘gone awry’.
‘I’m going to be here for a little while. I don’t know what’s going to happen,’ he told the camera.
‘What I wanted to say was if this is all successful, I’ll see you in season six, and if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care, everyone.’
This week, thankfully, Clarkson was spotted returning to work, where it was reported that he seemed to be in good spirits.
‘He was laughing and joking with other farmers – he even gave a speech,’ a source told The Sun.
Clarkson’s Farm is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video now.
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