‘Top Gear’ star Jeremy Clarkson reveals ‘aggressive’ cancer diagnosis

“Top Gear” host and British TV icon Jeremy Clarkson revealed that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer.

During the final two episodes of Season 5 of “Clarkson’s Farm,” streaming on Prime Video, Clarkson told his co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper, “I have cancer.” Cooper was shocked and then asked Clarkson, “No, you didn’t. Where?” Clarkson replied: “Nobody cares where it is. I’ve known about it since May.”

Clarkson revealed that the reason he “disappeared the other week” was because he went to the doctor and “had a biopsy.” The doctor told him the cancer was “aggressive,” but fortunately, he said, they caught the cancer “very early.”

He added: “I have to have an operation and then the operation will be over in no time, but your body will be out of action for a while.”

The show later showed Clarkson in a hospital bed, from where he said, “Clarkson’s Farm”. Season 5 started “with me in a hospital bed and we’re at the end of season 5 and I’m in a hospital bed again.” He explained that “some of the treatment” “went wrong” and that if his next round of treatment “is successful, I’ll see you for season 6, and if it’s not, then I won’t.”

Before ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ aired its season 5 finale, Clarkson posted a video on Instagram warning his fans that the episodes’really very difficult.”

For almost twenty years, Clarkson co-hosted “Top Gear” with Richard Hammond and James May. The show aired for 240 episodes on the BBC from 2002 to 2022 and followed the three presenters as they traveled the world discussing exotic and sometimes bizarre cars. “Clarkson’s Farm,” which premiered on Prime Video in 2021, follows Clarkson as he tries to run a rural farm with no prior experience.