Jeremy Clarkson issues health update amid cancer battle

The broadcaster, 66, issued the plea after revealing he is in remission from an “aggressive” form of the disease.

The revelation came in recent episodes of Clarkson’s Farm, which follows life on his Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton.

He said: “This is why I have to say to everybody who’s reading this, please, 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 here talking to you.”

His daughter, writer Emily Clarkson, echoed the call on social media, tagging Prostate Cancer UK in her post, encouraging men to get tested.

Gentlemen, if you’re experiencing any of the signs of prostate cancer then please get yourselves checked as soon as possible! pic.twitter.com/1GN9ywuML1

— ClarksonsFarm (@ClarksonsFarm1) June 21, 2026

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Mr Clarkson revealed he has since formed a support group with others who have also experienced the disease.

He said: “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.

“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.”

Mr Clarkson said the diagnosis took an emotional toll, despite his typically stoic public persona.

He said: “I’ve seen so many people die of cancer.

“It doesn’t bear thinking about what it must be like to live knowing that an illness is going to kill you.

“It must be very, very, very distressing.”

He said: “I don’t know the history of what happened to (former Olympic cyclist) Chris Hoy, but to be told your cancer is inoperable and to still carry on, you’d have to be incredibly brave.”

During the season finale of Clarkson’s Farm, Mr Clarkson is seen in a hospital bed describing complications during treatment.

He told The Times these were the result of mistakenly resuming blood-thinning medication for existing heart and vascular issues.

He said: “That was horrific and it was all my own fault.

“I’d been on drugs for heart issues and I had to come off them during the cancer treatment.

“Two or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I’d better put myself back on those blood thinners.

“Big mistake, huge.

“It (resulted in) a very big emergency in the middle of the night.

“I’m not even going to go into the treatment that was required as a result of that, because it was horrible.”

Mr Clarkson previously underwent a heart procedure during which he was fitted with two stents to improve blood flow.

In a column for The Sun at the time, he said his doctor advised him to give up work and take up golf instead.

He also gave up smoking after contracting pneumonia while on holiday in Spain.

Posting on the X account of his pub, The Farmer’s Dog, Mr Clarkson reiterated the importance of early detection.

Great to see three Brits on the podium in Barcelona. Just a shame the winner was sponsored by an Italian beer.

— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) June 14, 2026

He said: “The reason why I’m fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.

“Now, I know a lot of you will say, ‘I don’t want to be tested because it means someone will have to put their finger in me’, but it’s just a blood test these days.

“Look, 10, 12,000 people, men, to be honest, men, die every year in the UK from prostate cancer.

“Don’t be one of them, get tested.”

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