Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he is officially in remission from prostate cancer, less than a week after opening up publicly about his diagnosis for the first time.

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The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter confirmed the update after a follow-up PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test showed no sign of the disease — a result that marks a major turning point in what he described as an emotionally heavy battle.

Clarkson, 66, disclosed in the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer in 2025, but crucially, doctors were able to catch it early.

And now, after months of treatment and uncertainty, the broadcaster says he’s come out the other side.

“I am without a doubt, officially, the world’s luckiest man,” he told the Sunday Times.

Speaking to the newspaper, Clarkson admitted the diagnosis hit him harder than he expected, despite his trademark bluntness and humour, saying: “It was an aggressive type of cancer. It could have spread, it could have gone into the pancreas, it could have gone anywhere, and that would have been trouble.”

That early intervention, he says, is exactly why he’s still here — and why he’s now urging men not to ignore getting tested.

“This is why I have to say to everybody who’s reading this, please, please, please go and get checked,” Clarkson pleaded. “It’s not uncomfortable, it’s not undignified, and it’s a no-brainer. I did, and that’s why I’m sitting here talking to you 11 months down the line.”

Clarkson has become the latest high-profile figure to speak openly about prostate cancer, joining a growing list of public names trying to push awareness around one of the UK’s most common cancers in men.

He revealed he has been regularly meeting with former Prime Minister David Cameron, now Lord Cameron, along with writer Giles Coren and others who have also been diagnosed.

The group, Clarkson says, has become an unlikely support network.

“I was talking to David [Cameron] about it earlier this morning,” Clarkson revealed. “He said the amount of people that come up to him is mostly in public conveniences and say, ‘if you hadn’t owned up to it, I wouldn’t have got checked, and they wouldn’t have found it’.

“So now there’s a group of us, [food writer] Giles Coren, David, me, one or two other people, and we meet for lunch every so often. Everybody has different Gleason scores, and everybody has different Stockholm and PSA scores. We all compare notes and I actually get muddled with what mine were.”

Clarkson has since confirmed he’ll now undergo regular blood tests to monitor his health moving forward, acknowledging there’s still a risk of the cancer returning.

“I try to be positive. I’ve decided to be one of the 60% who doesn’t have a recurrence,” he joked.

The health scare formed one of the major storylines of season five of Clarkson’s Farm, with the show ending on a tense and emotional note.

Lying in a hospital bed in the finale, Clarkson told viewers: “If this is all successful, I’ll see you for season six, and if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care, everyone.”

But the road back wasn’t straightforward.

Clarkson also suffered severe complications after restarting blood-thinning medication too soon following surgery — a decision he now openly regrets.

“That was horrific and it was all my own fault,” he explained, adding: “Two or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I’d better put myself back on those blood thinners. Big mistake, huge.”

The move reportedly triggered what he called a “very big emergency in the middle of the night”, requiring treatment he later described as “horrible”.

The diagnosis came after what began as a routine health check in May 2025, adding to an already turbulent couple of years for the TV star.

In 2024, Clarkson underwent a heart procedure where doctors fitted two stents after discovering blocked arteries that could have led to a potentially fatal heart attack.

At the time, he was told to slow down, stop working, and replace stress with golf.

Now, with both his heart scare and cancer battle behind him, Clarkson says he’s painfully aware of how different things could have been.

In a video shared over the weekend, he offered one final message that cuts through all the noise.

“You will have noticed that I’m not dead,” he said. “The reason why I’m fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.”

He also warned men not to become part of the grim statistic of “12,000 people, men [who] die every year in the UK from prostate cancer”.

For more information on Prostate Cancer, the symptoms to look out for, and how to seek medical advice, please check out the NHS website.

Featured image credit: Instagram/JeremyClarkson (screenshots)