Jeremy Clarkson has declared himself “the world’s luckiest man” after being told he is officially in remission from an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer – a diagnosis he revealed only last week in the final episodes of Clarkson’s Farm’s fifth season, filmed in 2025.
“I am without a doubt, officially, the world’s luckiest man,” the former Top Gear presenter told the Sunday Times. “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.”
“Jeremy Clarkson declares remission from aggressive prostate cancer, credits early testing and urges others to get checked.”
Clarkson, 66, said a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test two months ago had shown no indication of cancer. In videos posted to Instagram over the weekend, he confirmed season six of Clarkson’s Farm is in production and quipped: “The more observant among you will have noticed that I am not dead.”
“I’m not just not dead, I’m perfectly fine,” he said on social media. “And the reason why I am fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.” He urged others to get tested, adding: “It’s just a blood test these days.”
In the show’s final two episodes, Clarkson said he had undergone an operation to remove 10% of his prostate – eight months after heart surgery for blocked coronary arteries. “The prostate, 10% of it’s dead,” he said on the programme.
Clarkson told the Times he will continue to have regular blood tests and is aware the cancer could return. “I try to be positive. I’ve decided to be one of the 60% who doesn’t have a recurrence,” he said. “If there’s just one person, a single person in the world, who watches Clarkson’s Farm and thinks, you know what, I’m gonna get myself checked, and discovers it early, and it’s treated, and they lead a normal life, then it’s worth being an illness bore.”
Charity Prostate Cancer UK said Clarkson’s diagnosis and treatment would raise “vital awareness”.