Jeremy Clarkson, a British TV personality and the former host of the BBC show “Top Gear,” said he had an “aggressive” cancer on the latest episodes of his documentary series, “Clarkson’s Farm.”
He did not specify the kind of cancer, saying that where it was “is of no concern to anybody.” But in the finale of the show’s fifth season, he talked about his prostate, saying, “Ten percent of it is dead.”
Mr. Clarkson first announced his diagnosis in a scene in which he discussed his harvesting schedule with Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland, two regulars on the show.
“I had a biopsy done the other week and it’s cancer, and it’s aggressive, but it’s really early,” Mr. Clarkson told the two men on the season’s seventh episode. Mr. Clarkson said he had known of the diagnosis since May 2025.
“Clarkson’s Farm,” an Amazon Prime Video show, follows Mr. Clarkson as he tries to run a farm in the Cotswolds, a picturesque region of southern England. The final two episodes of the fifth season, which were released early Wednesday, follow him harvesting his farm’s durum wheat crop and dealing with a potential bovine tuberculosis outbreak.
In another scene, he said that were it not for his early diagnosis, “this could well have been my last harvest.” Because the disease was caught quickly, he said, there was hope that he would be “harvesting this farm for many, many years to come.”
Before the episodes aired, Mr. Clarkson posted a video on Instagram in which he warned his fans that they would be hard to watch. “Ordinarily we try to keep the show bucolic and charming and cheerful, but the final two episodes, which drop in the middle of the night tonight, are, they’re none of those things really. They’re a difficult watch,” he said, looking into the camera. “They’re really, really difficult.”
Mr. Clarkson’s health was a theme of the show’s latest season. Its first episode began with Mr. Clarkson in the hospital with heart problems. In 2024, he underwent a heart procedure in which he had a stent placed.
By the season finale, Mr. Clarkson was back in a hospital bed, this time related to his cancer diagnosis. “Some of the treatments got a bit awry, let’s say,” he said. “If this is all successful, I’ll see you for Season 6. And if it isn’t, I won’t.”
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