Clarkson’s Farm Faces Uncertainty as Jeremy Clarkson Hints at Possible Exit from the Show Clarkson’s Farm

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he was close to walking away from starring in Clarkson’s Farm due to his prostate cancer diagnosis.

The 66-year-old broke the news during the latest series of his hit Amazon show, filmed at Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.

In one emotional scene, Mr Clarkson quietly told farm manager Kaleb Cooper and land agent Charlie Ireland: “I’ve got cancer”.

The former Top Gear host explained that the disease had been caught early, but described the treatment as intense and, at times, difficult.

He went on to say that around “10 per cent” of his prostate was affected and that some of the treatment had “gone a bit awry”

Now, in a new interview with The Times, Mr Clarkson spoke of the scheduling conflict between his operation and Diddly Squat’s harvest.

“I was really hoping, truly, truly hoping that I could get last year’s harvest done, and then go for the operation, because then I wouldn’t need to tell anybody, which is the whole Clarkson mentality,” he said.

“You are not allowed to be ill, and if you are ill, you certainly don’t own up to it. You just go to work as usual. And I was praying I could do that. But then that wasn’t possible [because the date of the operation was right in the middle of the harvest].”

The 66-year-old also divulged that he contemplated walking away from the camera altogether but knew viewers would wonder where he was.

Mr Clarkson added: “I had to wrestle with it for a long time in my head, thinking I can’t just disappear from the show, because everybody would say, ‘Well, where are you?’

“So I decided I’m going to have to come clean, I’m going to have to break the Clarkson policy of being an illness bore and admit to it, and as a result I’m now sitting down with you talking about it, which goes against the grain.”