{"id":643023,"date":"2026-06-17T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:30:07","slug":"clarksons-farm-jeremy-clarkson-announces-cancer-diagnosis-in-documentary-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643023\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson&#8217;s Farm: Jeremy Clarkson announces cancer diagnosis in documentary series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news was announced in an episode of his television series, Clarkson&#8217;s Farm, released on Wednesday. It is not clear exactly when the footage was taken, but the series was filmed in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarkson, 66, is seen telling series regulars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland of his diagnosis, both of whom were visibly shocked by the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with, but described it as &#8220;aggressive&#8221; and that a portion of his prostate had been removed as part of his treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it&#8217;s aggressive, but it&#8217;s really early,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarkson added that he had known &#8220;since May&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I promise I&#8217;ll be fine,&#8221; he told the two men, adding that he would be out of action &#8220;for a little while&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday evening, several hours prior to the release of the final two episodes, Clarkson shared a video to his Instagram warning fans that they would be a &#8220;difficult watch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Grand Tour presenter&#8217;s health has been a theme of the fifth series of the programme, which opened with Clarkson discussing a heart procedure he had undergone in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1l40gp6njro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote in his column for the Sunday Times<\/a> that &#8220;of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was fitted with a stent, which is a tube that is inserted into a narrowed or blocked artery to open it and allow blood to flow more freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer. The news was announced in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}