Jeremy Clarkson confirms Clarkson’s Farm ‘could end’ sooner than fans think
The new series starts this month.
Jeremy Clarkson has admitted everyone on Clarkson’s Farm ‘could do with a rest’.
The 65-year-old former Top Gear and Grand Tour host has opened up about the future of his Amazon Prime Video farming show, which returns for a fourth season later this month.
Jeremy, who has had some health setbacks, with a heart operation in 2024, and he recently put his back out with no clue how he managed it.
‘I’d do a sixth if there was a reason for doing it, like a bloody good story. But if, say, my back turns out to be cancerous then I wouldn’t,’ he quipped in an interview with The Times.
Jeremy confirmed that either way, there’ll be a ‘short break’ after the fifth series.
He added: ‘Whatever happens we’ll definitely take a short break as the crews are all worn out. We’ve been filming here two or three days a week, every week, for five years. Everybody could do with a rest.’
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Previous Page Next PageDespite the need to pause, Jeremy – who also opened his own pub, the Farmer’s Dog, last year – admitted he has no plans to retire from work.
‘I’d just be an alcoholic if I stopped working, what else would I do? I have no hobbies, I’m good at nothing. Some people enjoy playing golf or fishing or whatever. When they retire, they can indulge themselves in their hobby on a more full-time basis,’ he pointed out.
‘I’m not really interested in anything particularly. What would I do? Watercolour paint? Birdwatch? I wouldn’t be able to fill the day. No, I enjoy having lots of different jobs to do.’
Jeremy isn’t sure about its future after season five (Picture: Prime Video)Back to Clarkson’s Farm, and Jeremy admitted he was initially surprised by the show’s success, and at first he thought it would ‘serve up gentle disappointment to the Top Gear, Grand Tour audience’.
He explained how he had been ‘typecast as this man who drove around corners too quickly while shouting and using hyperbole to make a point’, and so he wasn’t sure Clarkson’s Farm would have the same appeal.
He added: ‘It brought a whole new audience who’d never watched a single programme I’d made. It’s massively popular in China. A huge number of Chinese people come to the farm shop and the pub.’
Clarkson’s Farm returns to Amazon Prime Video on May 23.
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