𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐺𝐸𝐷𝑌: RUMOURS Clarkson farm LOCKED DOWN over 𝑇ragic 𝐷𝐸𝐴𝑇𝐻 news

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Jeremy Clarkson has shared more distressing news after revealing that his livestock at  Diddly Squat Farm has tested positive for TB. The former Top Gear host announced the  tragic development, stating that one of the new puppies born to his dog Arya has passed away.

These two losses are the latest in a spate of bad luck that has descended upon the ex-Top Gear star’s new venture. Jeremy bought Diddly Squat Farm, located near Chadlington in west Oxfordshire, back in 2009. The first tragedy struck in 2020 when the then 60-year-old had to say goodbye to Wayne Rooney, one of his Suffolk rams named after the Derby County footballer. The presenter suggested a minute’s silence for the animal, as he revealed it had fathered 72 lambs.

In April 2024, Jeremy and his wife lost some little piglets born on the farm. Jeremy and Lisa were left heartbroken when a group of piglets tragically d!ed under challenging circumstances after they had hoped to focus on pig farming rather than dairy. In upcoming scenes, the Doncaster-born star can be seen tending to his pigs after they welcomed their first bunch of tiny piglets.

It became increasingly obvious that things aren’t going too well for the little four-legged creatures. During one scene, which appears to have been filmed at night, Jeremy is heard saying: “One of them is as weak as hell.”

“It was just a heartbreaking time,” he said. Speaking of his wife, he said, “I’ve never, ever seen Lisa cry — not once, ever since that all started and was unfolding. It was terrible. It is weird, because you love them and you help birth them and you feed and nurture and care for them. I mean, you don’t say, ‘Let’s buy some pigs and hope they d!e.'”

Unfortunately, matters became worse when Jeremy’s beloved pet pig Baroness also had to be euthanised after struggling to get pregnant, rearing underweight piglets, and seeing her own weight dramatically drop in quick time.

More recently speaking to Peter Cardwell on Times Radio about the TB outbreak, Jeremy 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.

“It’s only been not even 24 hours since I found out and it occupies my mind. Well it was occupying my mind but I got up this morning and found one of my puppies has d!ed. And we’ve got a very sickly calf. Honestly, farming? I’m not enjoying it this week.”

Jeremy also revealed that the farm will remain closed for “certainly two months because that’s how long we have to wait before we do another test” but confirmed that the farm shop remained unaffected as “it’s only cows that get affected by it”.

The TV personality delivered the devastating update to followers on X yesterday, posting: “Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.”.

In May of last year, one of Jeremy’s beloved pets – his cow Pepper – was sent to d!e. He got Pepper in series two after speaking to the daughter of a cattle breeder.

“This is my pet,” he said. “Five-year-old Rosie, from the farm we bought her from, said this cow was her favourite. “She asked: ‘Would you look after Pepper for me?’ So I said I would.”

It was discovered later in the series that Pepper was not pregnant, with a vet suggesting she be sent for meat. “I’m not eating Pepper, and that’s the end of it,” Clarkson said at the time.

Later that same summer a beloved member of the Diddly Squat team was diagnosed with prostate cancer. However, a later update revealed Gerald Cooper was “happy and healthy” after undergoing cancer treatment and being declared cancer-free.

Later the same year Jeremy suffered a serious health scare. In October 2024 tragedy struck again when the host experienced a “sudden deterioration” in his health.

Jeremy wrote in his column in The Sunday Times about what he called the “wearisome effects of growing old”. The 64-year-old detailed how a swim while on holiday in the Indian Ocean appeared to cause him difficulties using the stairs, which when he returned home meant a “sudden deterioration began to gather pace”.