By Brian Melley
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson revealed on his reality show that he has prostate cancer.
Clarkson, 66, said that the disease is “aggressive,” but was detected early.
He gave advance warning on social media Tuesday that he would share sombre news on the final episodes of the fifth season of “Clarkson’s Farm,” the show based on the challenges of running Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire. The episodes were released on Wednesday.
“Ordinarily we try to keep the show bucolic and charming, and cheerful, but two episodes which drop in the middle of the night tonight are, they’re none of those things,” he said on Instagram. “They’re a difficult watch, they’re really, really difficult.”
In one of the episodes, he breaks the news to farm manager Kaleb Cooper and consultant Charlie Ireland during harvest planning discussions saying, “I’ve got cancer.”
Clarkson, who made his name as the combative
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