Jeremy Clarkson has issued an update on his cancer diagnosis, in a new video shared to his social media.
In the latest series of Clarkson’s Farm, the presenter, 66, revealed that doctors had discovered a particularly ‘aggressive’ form of cancer.
However, he also said that it had been caught early, and that he had undergone surgery to remove part of his prostate.
Posting a follow-up video to his Instagram account on Saturday, Clarkson began: ‘The more observant among will have noticed I’m not dead.
‘I’m not just not dead, I’m perfectly fine,’ he continued, joking: ‘My eyebrows in particular are looking very lustrous.’
He finished: ‘The reason why I’m fine is because the doctor’s caught the prostate cancer early and they caught it early because I got tested.’
The video seemed to come direct from Clarkson’s farm, and featured the former Top Gear host walking through what looked like one of his meadows.
‘Thank you so much for all the kind messages I’ve had but now, a announcement,’ he wrote in the caption to the post.
After sharing the good news, he went on to encourage his followers to get themselves checked out, even if it means, ahem, embellishing symptoms to get a blood test.
‘10,12 thousand people – men – die every year of prostate cancer,’ he said.
‘Don’t be one of them. Get tested,’ he signed off.
Jeremy’s diagnosis came during the final episodes of Clarkson’s Farm’s fifth series.
He told co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper: ‘I’ve got cancer,’ revealing that he’d known since May.
Later in the episode, Clarkson shared that he’d undergone surgery to remove ‘10%’ of his prostate, which is where the cancer lay.
He can then be seen speaking from a hospital bed, saying that the treatment had ‘gone awry’.
‘I’m going to be here for a little while. I don’t know what’s going to happen,’ he tells the camera.
‘What I wanted to say was if this is all successful, I’ll see you in season six, and if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care, everyone.’