Kaleb Cooper has said sorry after taking a playful swipe at his boss Jeremy Clarkson while promoting his new children’s book.
The Clarkson’s Farm favourite, 27, was discussing his debut title Kaleb's Farmyard Tales: Escaping Animals and Runaway Tractors during an interview on Heart Radio when he revealed that one of the characters, a piglet, is called Jeremy.
Explaining the choice to host Jamie Theakston, he teased: “I don’t know really, I just thought it was a great name.
“It sums up, erm, you know… every Jeremy is always a little bit of a runt.”
The studio burst into laughter before the young farmer hastily backtracked, adding with a grin: “I’m sure you’re lovely,” in an apology to Jeremys everywhere.
Cooper shot to fame in 2021 as Clarkson’s straight-talking right-hand man on the hit Prime Video series and has since become a breakout star.
He and partner Taya recently welcomed their third child, Ashton, while filming continues on the fifth series of the award-winning show.
Elsewhere, Cooper recently told US Vice President JD Vance’s security to “f**k off” during his visit to the Cotswolds.
The American politician’s trip with his family last week sparked anger among locals, who complained of widespread disruption caused by his extensive security detail.
Clarkson revealed in The Sunday Times that the visit even disrupted filming for his hit Amazon Prime series, after a one–mile no-fly zone was set up around the manor house Vance was renting.
The restriction meant drones could not be used to film farming scenes.
Clarkson, 65, explained that he and farmhand Cooper, 27, both ended up in heated exchanges with security officers.
Roads were blocked off and vehicles pulled over to make way for Vance’s large convoy, and Kaleb was even ordered to stop his tractor in the pouring rain.
He wrote: “[Vance] arrived in a cavalcade of 27 massive black American SUVs and this was escorted by a shoal of British police remoras on motorcycles whose job was to shoo everyone out of the way.
“One of the people who they ordered to pull over was Kaleb Cooper, my tractor driver, but it was starting to rain and he urgently needed to get his load of wheat into the shed, so he invited his tormentor to eff off. And carried on regardless.”
Earlier this month, Cooper voiced his frustration under Clarkson’s Instagram post about the no-fly zone, venting that his wheat was left soaked waiting for Vance’s 19-vehicle convoy to pass.
“My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convo(y) stopped me in the rain in Chippy,” he wrote. “I could easily have went on my way and got it in the shed without getting in the way.”
“(If) he had just drove around in a VW Polo nobody would know who he was,” he added alongside several laughing emojis.
