James May Confirms It: Jeremy Clarkson Is Officially In Remission — “He’s Over The Hurdle”

Fans have been waiting months for an update, and now they finally have one worth celebrating. James May has confirmed that his old friend and Grand Tour co-star Jeremy Clarkson is officially in remission following his aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis, revealed in the final episodes of Clarkson’s Farm Season 5.

Speaking on Matt Allwright’s Channel 5 show this week, May gave fans the clearest update yet on Clarkson’s health, describing him as having moved past the most difficult part of his treatment. It’s the first time one of Clarkson’s own inner circle has spoken so directly about how he’s doing since the diagnosis became public.

For context, the Season 5 finale showed Clarkson quietly telling his closest colleagues on the farm — including an emotional Kaleb Cooper — about the diagnosis he’d been carrying privately since the previous summer. He’d kept it out of the public eye entirely until the show aired in June, at which point he posted a follow-up video reassuring fans that a PSA test carried out in April had come back clear, and that he was, in his own words, officially in remission.

James May’s comments this week essentially put a friend’s seal of confirmation on that news — a small but meaningful detail for a fanbase that’s followed every twist of this story since it first broke.

There’s more good news tied to this update too. Both Clarkson and May are set to make cameo appearances in the upcoming reboot of The Grand Tour, which is moving forward with a brand-new lineup: content creator and train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois, alongside YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, will take over hosting duties. It’s a changing of the guard 22 years in the making — but knowing that Clarkson and May will still show up on screen, even briefly, will be a relief for longtime viewers worried about losing the trio for good.

For a franchise and a man defined by never backing down from anything, this latest chapter feels like exactly the kind of ending fans were hoping for: not a dramatic finish, but a quiet, hard-won return to normal.