Clarkson said news of her diagnosis ‘hit harder than I thought’
The 66-year-old revealed in the latest episode of the fifth season of his series Clarkson’s Farm that he had been diagnosed with “aggressive” prostate cancer.(Image: PA)
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been meeting privately with Lord David Cameron and other celebrities to share his experiences with prostate cancer.
The broadcaster, 66, revealed who he was in the latest series of Clarkson Farm Diagnosed with an early but “aggressive” form of the disease. Speaking to The Times, Clarkson said a recent PSA test showed no signs of cancer, confirming he is now in remission.
He said: “I was talking to David (Cameron) about it this morning. He said the majority of people who come to him are in public facilities and say, if you didn’t have a responsibility for it, I wouldn’t get tested, and they don’t get it.
“So now there’s a group of us, (food writer) Giles Coren, David, myself, one or two other people, and we meet for lunch from time to time. Everyone has different Gleason scores, and everyone has different Stockholm and PSA scores. We all compare notes and I get really confused with my notes.
“But it’s fun to see people look at us and say, ‘This is a pretty interesting group of people, what do they all have in common?'”
Clarkson further said that the news of her diagnosis has been “more impactful than I thought”. He added: “That’s why I have to say to everyone reading this, please, please, please go and get tested.
“It’s not uncomfortable, it’s not indecent, and it’s done without thinking. I did, and that’s why I’ve been here talking to you for 11 months. I’ve seen too many people die from cancer. There’s no need to think about what it would be like to live knowing that a disease is going to kill you.
“It would be very, very, very painful. I don’t know the history of what happened to (former Olympic cyclist) Chris Hoy, but to be told that your cancer is inoperable and to still have it going on would have to be incredibly brave.”
Speaking from a hospital bed at the end of the season finale, Clarkson revealed that he had experienced complications during treatment, which he told the Times were caused by resuming a course of pills he had been taking for his previous vascular and heart problems.
He said: “That was horrible and it was all my own fault. I was on drugs for heart problems and I had to come off them during cancer treatment.”
“Two or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I’d better get myself back on the blood thinners. Big mistake, huge. It (resulted in) a huge emergency in the middle of the night. I’m not even going to go into the treatment that was required as a result of it, because it was horrible. I didn’t ask a doctor, I just thought, ‘I’m sure it would be OK to go back on the blood thinners.'”
The diagnosis came nearly two years after Clarkson underwent a cardiac procedure, in which he had two stents implanted to improve blood flow to the heart. He said that his doctor had told him to stop working after the operation and in a column for The Sun at the time he was advised to play golf instead of work.
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The TV presenter previously quit smoking after suffering from pneumonia while on holiday in Spain. Clarkson’s Farm follows the long-time television presenter and his crew as they face the challenges of running Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Since deciding to run her own farm in 2019 and subsequently launching her own popular reality series, Clarkson has become a vocal supporter of farmers and took part in a protest in London against the government’s move to impose an inheritance tax on agricultural land in November 2024.
The sixth series of the show is scheduled to air in 2027.
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