Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he has cancer.
The 66-year-old presenter was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of the disease last summer.
He revealed the diagnosis during the final two episodes of the fifth series of his Amazon Prime documentary Clarkson’s Farm, which sees him breaking the news to Kaleb Cooper, his farm manager, and Charlie Ireland, his land agent.
“I’ve got cancer,” Clarkson tells them in the scene filmed last year. “I had a medical, remember, back in May? I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive.”
Asked what type of cancer he has by Cooper, Clarkson says: “Where it is, is of no concern to anybody.”
Cooper was in tears at the news, saying “I don’t like this”, to which Clarkson responded: “I wasn’t thrilled.”
However, the former Top Gear host reassured Cooper and Ireland that the disease had been caught “really early”.
He said: “If I hadn’t have got myself checked out and they hadn’t caught the problem early, this could well have been my last harvest. It’s only because they did catch it early, there’s every hope that I’ll be harvesting this farm for many, many years to come.”