Jeremy Clarkson reveals that running a farm isn’t what it’s cut out to be and is 'unbelievably sad'

Jeremy Clarkson is best known for being one of the hosts of the hit BBC show Top Gear. However, after an altercation in 2015, Jeremy Clarkson left the show alongside the two other hosts, Richard Hammond and James May.

Since leaving Top Gear Clarkson has two Amazon Primeshows, The Grand Tour, which is a car show he hosts with Richard Hammond and James May, but he also has a show about life on his farm, called Clarkson’s Farm.

Clarkson’s Farm is getting ready for its third season and Jeremy Clarkson has revealed things haven’t been going as planned. From crops not growing and trouble with livestock, here’s the reality of life on Diddly Squat Farm.

Farm life isn’t going well for Jeremy Clarkson

As reported by Express, Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about life on his farm, Diddly Squat. The car enthusiast revealed that ‘everything that could go wrong has gone wrong’. Indeed, he explained that his potato and spring barley crops had both been destroyed, by the hottest June and the wettest March in history.

Behind the scenes everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.

Moreover, Clarkson decided to venture into livestock and opted for pigs over cattle. He told The Times that sadly, it wasn’t going well and many of the piglets didn’t make it. Clarkson explained that his pig had a litter of 14 piglets but sadly, many from the first litter died and the mother accidentally crushed some.

The last bout of births we had, one of our pigs had fourteen piglets.

It was almost unbelievably sad. We had a catastrophically high level of deaths.

Jeremy Clarkson was denied planning permission

Not only is the farm life itself not going according to plan, but Jeremy Clarkson’sexpansion for the farm isn’t working either. Writing for The Sun, the former Top Gear host explained that he was told to make season 3 more interesting, he should build something.

If you want a storyline for the next series, try getting planning permission for something.

Confused, Clarkson asked his farmer friend what he should build and was told ‘anything’. The friend added that either way it wouldn’t matter what he built, it would be ‘turned down’.

Clarkson decided to ask permission to turn a building that was already on his land into a restaurant, which would serve beef, lamb, beer and potatoes from the farm. As predicted by his friend, Clarkson’s request was denied, he wrote in his column:

As my farming friend had predicted, the council went berserk and did everything in its power to stop me.

He added that he was also denied permission for his ‘little farm shop’ and that he isn’t allowed to sell his own farming books in his shop:

They even turned their guns on my little farm shop, firing so many heavy salvoes that, even today, I’m not allowed to sell my own farming books in there.

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Sources used:

Express: ‘Jeremy Clarkson admits ‘everything has gone wrong' as farm hit by devastating news’

The Times: ‘Jeremy Clarkson on his farm: ‘Everything has gone wrong’

The Sun: ‘JEREMY CLARKSON I asked for planning permission to turn building into a restaurant & farm shop… not for soddin’ Studio 54’