Earlier this year, Jeremy said he was in remission from the disease. The diagnosis and its subsequent fallout aired on Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm.
Richard, 56, appeared on Times Radio when he was asked about the current condition of his 66-year-old former colleague.
Richard responded: “I believe he’s fine. It was some distance in the past, because obviously there’s a time lag between when the show happened and when they’re seen on the show. But no I believe he’s very well, he’s still irritating, all of those things. Generally speaking it means he’s alive.”
Earlier this summer, upon revealing both his diagnosis and the fact he was in remission, Jeremy, 66, told The Times just how close he came to it getting worse.
He said: “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.”
Later, in a video posted on his Instagram page, he added: “You will have noticed that I’m not dead. The reason why I’m fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested.”
Jeremy’s cancer diagnosis follows on from the presenter undergoing heart surgery in 2024 to clear blocked arteries with stents.
Following his cancer story, Jeremy has helped raise awareness of prostate cancer and encouraged more men to get checked. Although Richard has not given any major update on his own health, he has said he is still living with consequences of his jet car crash nearly 20 years ago in 2006.
Richard was driving a Vampire jet car at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire when the front right tyre punctured at close to 300mph, sending him off the runway and into the grass. He was later in a coma after suffering a frontal lobe brain injury.
The former Grand Tour presenter later admitted that he was suffering from something known as “lost key syndrome” which some speculated could be him referring to dysexecutive syndrome. This refers to a condition associated with frontal lobe damage.
Explaining how his everyday life changed a couple of years ago, Richard told LADBible: “I think anybody who’s suffered a brain injury will probably agree that it never leaves you in the sense that there’s always a little bit of you [confused] if you lose your car keys or you forget something.
“Mine was a frontal lobe injury, which would explain that. I’m left thinking, ‘Oh no. Is that because of the brain injury? Or is it because I’m now 54? Is it just because I’ve lost my keys? The doctors actually call it ‘lost key syndrome’ and it goes on and on.”
This story originally appeared on Express.co.uk
