Jeremy Clarkson has paused filming on Clarkson’s Farm, after wrapping the latest series, following a difficult year of health woes, poor weather and losing livestock

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Jeremy Clarkson opened up about his disastrous year(Image: PR Supplied)

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he’s given the Clarkson’s Farm camera crew a well-earned break after what he described as a “knackering” and miserable year on Diddly Squat Farm.

The former Top Gear presenter turned farmer, 65, opened up about the gruelling challenges he and his team have faced while filming the upcoming fifth series of the hit Amazon Prime show – due to air next spring. But fans hoping for another light-hearted dose of tractor mishaps, cuddly animals, and countryside banter are in for a shock. “It isn’t,” Clarkson bluntly stated. “Because the last 12 months have been a conveyor belt of misery.”

The year began with Clarkson in hospital – the result of trying to juggle harvesting with opening a pub. “My heart decided I really had to slow down,” he revealed. Back in June, Clarkson opened up about his eight-hour hospital visit as he underwent prostate exams to check for cancer.

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Everything had been a little bit too chaotic on the Diddly Squat Farm(Image: PR Supplied)

He has been keeping a close eye on his health following his hospital scare last year, where he was “days away from death.” Writing in his Sunday Times column, Jeremy said, “They can photograph your ventricles and every bit of your brain, but if they want to know what’s going on with your prostate, which lives in the anus, for some reason, the doctor has to put his finger in there. I can only assume it’s because he likes it.”

Jeremy also shared how Labour’s spring Budget, which by delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, has affected his farm. The outspoken TV star slammed it for “sending the cost of fertiliser soaring.”

The star also revealed another blow to the show, he stated in his column for The Sun, “In 2024, it didn’t stop raining. And in 2025, it didn’t start.” Meanwhile, devastatingly, a TB outbreak also struck the farm. Clarkson went on to reveal that one of his cows – pregnant with twins – tested positive and had to be “destroyed.”

“Even though she was pregnant with twins, she had to be destroyed,” he said. “And what happens to her after that? Burned? Dissolved in acid? Nope. She goes into the food chain like any other farm animal.”

After all of the doom and gloom, the star revealed how he even had to turn the cameras away at some point, “Well, we’ve sent the cameras away to give us a break from that side of things for a while.” However, Clarkson then went on to reveal that there are some good parts to the upcoming show, saying, “In the relentless sunshine, the Cotswolds did look fantastic,” he admitted. “But at the coalface, it was knackering.”

Just this week, the star revealed the cast and crew wrapped filming for series 5. He took to Instagram to share a photograph of himself alongside girlfriend Lisa Hogan and the entire Diddly Squat Farm team, including Kaleb Cooper, Charlie Ireland and Gerald Cooper. Jeremy wrote beneath the image: “Season 5. It’s a wrap.”