Jeremy Clarkson has announced he is in remission, updating fans on social media and expressing his gratitude for their support following his prostate cancer diagnosis.

The former Top Gear host, 66, broke the news in the latest episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson's Farm, revealing the disease was "aggressive" but had been caught at an early stage.

The television presenter also disclosed that he underwent surgery to remove part of his prostate, with the series concluding with him revealing he had experienced complications during his treatment.

In a recent interview with The Times, he confirmed he was now in remission, after a follow-up PSA test two months ago showed no signs of cancer.

He told the publication: "I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man. It was an aggressive type of cancer. It could have spread, it could have gone into the pancreas, it could have gone anywhere, and that would have been trouble," the Mirror.

"This is why I have to say to everybody who's reading this, please, please, please go and get checked. It's not uncomfortable, it's not undignified. And it's a no-brainer.

"I did, and that's why I'm sitting here talking to you 11 months down the line. I've seen so many people die of cancer. It doesn't bear thinking about what it must be like to live knowing that an illness is going to kill you."

Taking to Instagram for the first time since the new series launched, Clarkson shared an announcement with the caption: "Thank you so much for all the kind messages I've had but now, a announcement."

In the post, he urged his followers to "get tested", even encouraging them to "lie" about having symptoms in order to obtain a test.

"The more observant among you will have noticed that I'm not dead, and I'm not just not dead, I'm perfectly fine. My eyebrows, in particular, are looking very lustrous, and the reason why I'm fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested," he began in a video shared on social media.

"Now I know a lot of you will say I don't want to be tested because it means someone will have to put their finger in me, but it's just a blood test these days, and if you go to your doctor and he says, Well, I'm not going to test you because you don't have any symptoms, and you're not in a high-risk category.

"Just lie, just lie, say you have got symptoms, say that you have to get up 32 times in the night for a wee, and that there's some dribbling, because look, 10, 12,000 people people, men to be honest, men die every year in the UK from prostate cancer. Don't be one of them. Get tested."

Clarkson, 66, has been flooded with messages of support after viewers watched him disclose his diagnosis during an episode of his popular reality TV show. "I've got cancer," Clarkson told farm manager Kaleb Cooper and land agent Charlie Ireland during discussions about harvest planning.

The television presenter said he expected to be "fine" but would be out of action "for a while", before disclosing in the final episode of the series that he had undergone surgery to remove part of his prostate.

He said: "I won't know whether it's worked or not until November probably...The prostate, 10% of it's dead, the 10% where the cancer is."

Speaking from a hospital bed at the close of the season finale, Clarkson revealed he had encountered complications during his treatment.

He said: "We started season five with me in a hospital bed and here we are at the end of season five and I'm back in a hospital bed."

The 66 year old reflected on the future of the show, adding: "What I wanted to say was if this is all successful, I'll see you for season six, and if it isn't, I won't. Take care, everyone."

Clarkson's partner had also expressed her gratitude for the overwhelming wave of support following his prostate cancer diagnosis.

Irish actress Lisa Hogan, who has been in a relationship with Clarkson since 2017, posted a photograph to her Instagram story of the presenter relaxing in a garden chair while operating a camera.

Alongside the image she wrote "back at the farm", signalling their return home after attending day two of the races at Royal Ascot in Berkshire. Hogan also shared a screenshot of charity Prostate Cancer UK's Instagram post praising Clarkson for disclosing his diagnosis and treatment on the Prime Video series, noting it would raise "vital awareness".

The Dublin-born actress wrote: "Thank you for all the support today."

Prior to the new episodes of Clarkson's Farm airing on Prime, the former Top Gear presenter had cautioned viewers that season five would not be entirely light-hearted.

He said: "Sombre news - Clarkson's Farm, 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, really. They're a difficult watch, they're really, really difficult."

Gerald Cooper, a farmhand on the programme, had disclosed in an earlier series that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, before announcing he was cancer free in 2024.

Clarkson's Farm follows the long-standing television presenter and his team as they tackle the demands of running Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Since taking on his farm in 2019 and subsequently launching his hugely popular reality series, Clarkson has become a prominent champion of farmers, attending a protest in London against the Government's plans to introduce inheritance tax on farmland in November 2024. The sixth series of the programme is set to air in 2027.