Jeremy Clarkson has announced that season five of his hit Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm has officially finished filming.
The TV presenter, 64, revealed the news on Instagram, posting a photo alongside his girlfriend Lisa Hogan, farmhand Kaleb Cooper and Gerald Cooper.
The upcoming installment is expected to feature some of the show’s most emotional moments yet, after his Oxfordshire farm was struck by an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis earlier this year.
In the new series, Clarkson’s 1,000-acre holding went into lockdown for two months, unable to buy or sell cows.
The Cotswolds farm has been at the heart of the BAFTA-winning documentary, which follows Clarkson’s often chaotic attempts at running the land he bought in 2008.
After the farmer who previously managed it retired in 2019, Clarkson took on the challenge himself, aided by fan favourites Kaleb and Gerald.
The former Top Gear host recently admitted that profits from the show are what keep Diddly Squat farm afloat, after describing this year’s harvest as “catastrophic.”
Writing on X in August, he said: “It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food.
“If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
When a fan pointed out the struggles would at least make “good TV,” Clarkson replied: “Yes. But most farms don’t have TV shows to keep them going.”
Beyond farming, Clarkson has also expanded his ventures, opening his Oxfordshire pub The Farmer’s Dog to the public in August, while continuing to pen his long-running column.
In it, he recently shared that breakfast had become a health hazard thanks to the wild mushrooms carpeting his fields: “There are 15,000 different types of mushroom in the UK and you can eat all of them. But some of them only once. And that’s where things get tricky.
“Because it’s nigh on impossible to tell which ones are fatal and which ones are not.”
Despite that risk, Clarkson admitted: “So I just chuck them all in a pan at lunchtime and play Russian roulette. So far so good...”
