Clarkson ‘not enjoying’ farming after tough week

FORMER Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he is “not enjoying farming” at the moment, amid a week that has seen bovine tuberculosis found on his Diddly Squat Farm.

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The TV star, 65, said he is also dealing with “a very sickly calf”, and discovered that one of his puppies had died on Friday morning.

On Thursday, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that a pregnant cow had contracted the disease on his farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Speaking to Times Radio Breakfast, he said: “It’s awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it’s a hypothetical threat. And then the vet looks up, as he did yesterday lunchtime, and said ‘I’m really sorry this one’s failed’.

“So that means we're now locked down and it’s just dreadful, absolutely dreadful.”