Clarkson Column Reveals Cancer Scare Before 'Fracas', And That He'll Do Another Motoring Show

Just two days before the now infamous ‘fracas’ with producer Oisin Tymon which lost him his job, ex-Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was told he ‘probably’ had cancer. Writing in his latest Sunday Times column, Clarkson revealed that his doctor found a potentially cancerous lump on his tongue, which he was told to get checked immediately. The newspaper has since reported that the all-clear was eventually given.

Referencing his divorce, the death of his mother last year and the incident which lead to his BBC contract not being renewed, Clarkson also said “I felt sick because after I’d lost my home and my mother, I’d thrown myself even more vigorously into my job and now, idiotically, I’d managed to lose that too.”

Since the news landed that Top Gear as we know it is to end, we’ve had an outpouring of grief from CT readers, distraught at losing their favourite motoring show. However, as we’ve long suspected, this isn’t the end for on-screen car-related goodness from Clarkson. Talking about the chasm the absence of the show has left in his life, the 55-year-old said “The hole it’s left behind seems to stretch for eternity…And I’ve somehow got to fill it.”

He goes on to say “I have made a decision. I have lost my baby but I shall create another. I don’t know who the other parent will be or what the baby will be like, but I cannot sit around any more organising my photograph albums.” So there we have it. ‘Top Gear v2’ is eventually going to happen somewhere, somehow, and we’re sure Richard Hammond and James May will be along for the ride too.