Jeremy Clarkson is normally not very responsive to dressing downs, but on his new Amazon show, Clarkson's Farm, The Grand Tour presenter is getting exactly that thanks to young farmer Kaleb Cooper - and viewers are loving it.
The new docu-series shows Clarkson trying to run a 1,000 acres farm in the Cotswolds. In April a helicopter was seen dropping a car over the Glanusk Estate as it was thought The Grand Tour was being filmed in the area.
Shot over the course of 12 months, Clarkson's Farm follows Clarkson as he attempts to run a working farm – a filming schedule that just so happened to fall slap bang in the middle of a global pandemic. You can click here to see what Clarkson said about parents who complained over lockdown food parcels.
Openly admitting to knowing nothing whatsoever about agriculture beyond his tractor-racing days on Top Gear, Clarkson is joined by seasoned farmers Kaleb and Charlie, who as a trio battle their way through one of the strangest years on record.
And it's Kaleb who has been winning fans over by the way he is dealing with the cack-handed attempts of Clarkson to run his farm, especially when the 61-year-old TV presenter gets a telling off.
As Jeremy struggles to cut tramlines in his field with his posh tractor, Kaleb comes along to lend him a hand, but afterwards the petrolhead TV presenter faces the young farmer's wrath for not planting the seeds with enough space between them and in the wrong direction.
"You're going to have no tramlines - so when I come to spray it and fertilise it, how do I know where to drive?" Kaleb shouted at Clarkson.
"I'll do it properly now," Clarkson conceded, but Kaleb was not having it: "No, it's too late. You're pretty much screwed."
"You haven't even drilled it straight," he yelled as he stormed off, adding: "That’s as straight as a roundabout!"
The former Top Gear host had acknowledged before the show aired that the two farmers knew a lot more than him, saying: "Charlie is a good agronomist – he knows his chemistry and ‘you need to balance this and that’ and he’s very knowledgeable.
And he describes Kaleb as “a 22-year-old foetus who has been teaching me things”, a role that regularly required the phrase “ugh, he wasn’t listening” to be uttered after every instruction.
Viewers have been loving Kaleb and asking for more series of the show.
Clarkson has admitted that the show has been a journey of discovery, the project has opened Clarkson’s eyes to the inner workings of the modern-day food chain, alongside posing a number of unexpected questions.
“Now I’m present at the birth of a lamb, it feeds on the grass here, is taken to an abattoir down the road and then it comes back as meat.
“And then it’s somehow more expensive than lamb in the supermarket, which is coming from New Zealand. How’s that? How does that happen?”
You can watch Clarkson's Farm, now, on Amazon Prime
