Jeremy Clarkson has been diagnosed with cancer

Jeremey Clarkson has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The journalist and broadcaster, who co-hosted Top Gear from 1988 to 2015 and later went on to front The Grand Tour alongside Richard Hammond and James May, revealed the news in an episode of Clarkson’s Farm this week.

“I’ve got cancer. I’ve known since May,” he told farm colleagues Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland. “I had a medical, you remember back in May? I disappeared off the other week and had a biopsy done, and it’s cancer and it’s aggressive. But it’s really early.”

“I’ll have to go and have an operation. The operation’s in and out in no time, but then you’re slightly out of action for a little while.”

“I promise I’ll be fine. Pisser though, isn’t it?”

It isn’t clear when the footage was filmed or how his treatment is progressing, with the presenter taking to social media last night to warn that the final two installments would be “a difficult watch.”

The last episode concludes with JC in hospital. “So we started Season 5 with me in a hospital bed, and here we are at the end of Season 5 and I’m back in a hospital bed. Some of the treatment’s gone a bit awry, let’s say. So I’m going to be here for a little while.

“If this is all successful, I’ll see you for Season 6. And if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care everyone.”

Everyone at Top Gear wishes Jeremy a full and speedy recovery.