When the ultimate macho man, petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson, revealed this week that he has been privately battling ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer, my first thought was: ‘Crikey, he deserves a Knighthood for services to men’s bits.’An honour for coming clean about a disease that claims thousands of men’s lives a year, many of them needlessly as blokes are too ashamed or embarrassed about getting themselves checked.They ignore that pain down below and dismiss concerns about getting up six times a night for a pee.There’s no doubt that by talking about it candidly on his show Clarkson’s Farm, which is drawing more than four million viewers per episode in the current series, he will have saved lives.If that doesn’t deserve a knighthood, I don’t know what does.He should also be given recognition for his service to farmers, for revealing they are not all rich toffs to be taxed out of existence as this spiteful Leftie government and Rachel Reeves would have you believe. But honest folk working day and night without holidays tending their animals and their crops with humour and heartache to keep us fed.I have to admit that I shed a quiet tear – all right, more of a sob – when Clarkson told us at the end of series five that he had been fighting cancer for a year.‘If I hadn’t have got myself checked out and they hadn’t caught the problem early, this could have been my last harvest,’ he said from his hospital bed. There’s no doubt that by talking about his cancer candidly on his show Clarkson’s Farm, he will have saved lives‘If this is all successful, I’ll see you for season six – and if it isn’t, I won’t, take care everyone.’Incredibly, this confession – graphic, moving and unbelievably honest for a macho man – led to a four-fold increase in men seeking advice about the disease and making appointments with their GPs.Just stop and think what that means. Thousands of proud men – men like our partners or dads or brothers or close friends – getting checked and possibly warding off a death sentence. Thanks to Jeremy.Last year, prostate was declared the most common cancer in the UK, killing 12,000 men a year. And many of them die because of men’s reluctance to talk to a doctor or even their partner about their prostate.There’s also the fact that society today puts women’s health first – it’s all about breast cancer or cervical cancer and regular mammograms and smear tests. Yet there still isn’t mass screening for prostate in this country.Which I really don’t get, as a woman who gets every check under the sun free on the NHS. Why aren’t checks for bloke’s parts universally and unquestioningly offered?.So well done Jeremy for bravely highlighting this insidious, lurking bloke cancer.Not that the UK honours system is likely to recognise his brilliant contribution any time soon. It is as obsessed with wokery and diversity and so on as every other arm of government – and Clarkson is the very opposite of political correctness.He was gleefully booted out of Top Gear by the politically correct BBC after an altercation with a producer – although many of us suspect they couldn’t bear him anyway because he represented everything they did not like,And now, because he speaks the language of the majority in this country and relates to their fears and dreams, his Clarkson’s Farm show is a runaway and wonderfully refreshing success.The former BBC executives who exiled him should read that and weep. And the rest of us should insist he gets that gong.Prince Harry plans to bring Meghan, Archie and Lilibet to the UK next month, believing there has been ‘a warming of the frost’ between him and King Charles and saying he ‘would love to introduce’ his children to his ‘wider royal family’. Crikey, how dim is Harry? Neither William nor Kate would let him within 100 miles of them or their kids. And Queen Camilla, who he vilified in his memoir Spare, is unlikely to open the door if he knocks. Although Beatrice and Eugenie’s diaries are clear for the foreseeable. Having left their fans guessing for months, much rejoicing as diminutive actor Tom Holland, 30 and willowy wife Zendaya, 29, reveal they have marriedIs it such a euphoric match for Tom?Having left their fans guessing for months, much rejoicing as diminutive actor Tom Holland, 30 and willowy wife Zendaya, 29, reveal they have married. Good luck with this superstar coupling: a bloke who plays a spider and a woman made famous in the teen series Euphoria as a drug addict.Perhaps worth remembering that the average life of a spider is one to three years – and that the female usually devours the male.Emma Raducanu has struggled to win since her 2021 US Open victory but was in great form at Queens. She’s also said to have a new boyfriend, ‘PR expert’ John Friend, and was snapped in a London park snogging him. I hope for her sake it is love all.The Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally says the church is ‘ashamed’ of its role in the forced adoption of babies after the war and apologises to the mothers involved. Jolly good, but we still await an apology for the lads abused by its clergy for decades.An insult to baby PrestonAs baby Preston’s ‘parents’ Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley are jailed, none of us can fathom how eight opportunities to save him were missed.And we learn Gerard Jones, head of Oldham Council’s children’s services overseeing Preston’s fostering, was on a salary package of £163,000 and was handed a £23,000 golden goodbye, and said 15 months after Preston was murdered on his watch: ‘I have been blessed to end my time in Oldham on such a high.’ As baby Preston’s ‘parents’ Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley are jailed, none of us can fathom how eight opportunities to save him were missedVictoria and David Beckham have secured the right to a new brand name for 14-year-old daughter Harper’s beauty range, Kind Calmplex.It’s on top of her already-registered HIKU by Harper. She and mum Victoria have been working on the range for two years, since Harper was 12. How long before Harper does a Brooklyn and rails against her parents, saying she is not a brand but a kid?It’s a win for Gwyn!Gwyneth Paltrow is clearly unperturbed after being trolled for promoting million-dollar condos in Israel.As pictures of her on holiday with her Jewish husband Brad Falchuk prove, the controversy has washed over her like the Sardinian sea she was swimming in.Once she was mocked for her ‘conscious uncoupling’ from Coldplay’s Chris Martin (which turned out to be an amicable divorce), for her nepo-baby daughter Apple (who now has a degree in law and history) and for her wellness company Goop (which has netted her $250million). I salute Gwynnie. She’s a contented, confident and loved-up woman in her mid-50s and happy to be seen with bedraggled hair and not a shred of make-up.Wonderful to see Kate and William so happy together at Ascot. The Princess was shining bright in canary yellow for her first appearance at the event since 2023 – before her cancer diagnosis. Happy days ahead.Westminster woesWhile he is still PM, Keir Starmer is staying neutral over the Assisted Dying Bill. Well, why would he lend a hand to legislation that allows doomed folk to choose to leave this world? He is, after all, fighting for his political life.We do have to question if the Makerfield ‘electoral miracle’ that is Andy Burnham is any good. As Mayor of Greater Manchester he had a budget of £3 billion; as PM he’d be in charge of £1.4 trillion of public expenditure. More importantly, he’s a very short guy with stubby legs and a tweezered monobrow who dresses in trainers and shabby sweatshirts. So how could we possibly trust him to run the country?
PLATELL: Jeremy Clarkson's confession he has cancer will save lives
When the ultimate macho man, petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson, revealed this week that he has been battling 'aggressive' prostate cancer, my first thought was: 'Crikey, he deserves a Knighthood.'











