Jeremy Clarkson thinks about dying every day and regularly calculates how long he may have left to live.
The popular Clarkson’s Farm presenter has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer since he was diagnosed last May, it emerged today.
And he has previously spoken about how he has long been haunted by the idea of his own mortality and regularly contemplates death.
He made his morbid admission in a promotional interview seven years ago.
He said then: ‘I think about dying every day.’
‘When I [previously] had pneumonia I didn’t think I was going to die. But now I think about it often.
‘I’ve got an internal clock counting down and I’ve got about 101,000 hours left.’
‘You just think of an age you’ll live to, and work out the hours. I did it and that’s how many hours I have left.
‘I re-calculate it regularly when I’m faced with decisions about what I want to do next. How much time have I got left? I mustn’t waste any.’
Talking to Radio Times in 2019, he explained that he believed that in his own mind he was likely to die soon after his 70th birthday. This is now just four years away, on 11 April 2030.
Jeremy Clarkson thinks about dying every day and regularly calculates how long he may have left to live
Jeremy Clarkson was visibly emotional as he revealed his devastating cancer diagnosis in the latest episodes of his Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm
He shared the news with shaken co-stars Charlie and Kaleb Cooper during a scene on the show
The pneumonia episode he was alluding to came in 2017 when he was admitted to hospital in Majorca and had to use a wheelchair and was hooked up to a drip.
He was speaking to promote the third series of The Grand Tour, his Amazon rival to his previous Top Gear show.
The revelation that the veteran broadcaster has been seriously ill was revealed in the final two episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm, which were released overnight.
The episodes saw the visibly emotional 66-year-old former Top Gear and Grand Tour host relay the news to his shaken co-stars Charlie Ireland and Kaleb Cooper, who run his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds with him.
Clarkson revealed on the Amazon Prime Video series, filmed from late 2024 to September 2025, how he had been diagnosed in May last year, telling Kaleb that 10 per cent of his prostate ‘where the cancer is’ is ‘dead’.
He began treatment and underwent an operation in August, before being rushed back to hospital in dramatic scenes which marked the end of the series.
