Jeremy Clarkson shares ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer diagnosis

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer last summer and had an operation to remove 10% of his prostate, eight months after he underwent heart surgery for blocked coronary arteries. In the final two episodes of the fifth series of his Amazon Prime documentary, Clarkson’s Farm, the 66-year-old presenter told his farm manager, Kaleb Cooper, and his land agent, Charlie Ireland: “I’ve got cancer.” In the scenes, which were filmed last year and released last night, the former Top Gear host added: “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.” He said “wasn’t thrilled” to receive the diagnosis but that it had been caught at a “really early stage”. He added: “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.” When Cooper asked him what type of cancer it was, he replied: “Where it is, is of no concern to anybody.” But in later scenes, after undergoing a procedure, he revealed it was in his prostate. “The prostate, 10% of it’s dead,” he said. “The 10% where the cancer is.” At the end of the series, he is filmed in a hospital bed. …