Jeremy Clarkson says his suicidal sheep are making life a flocking nightmare.
The Grand Tour star, 61, has plenty of them at his 1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds, but trying to keep them all alive is difficult.
He said: “They wake up in the morning and think, ‘How can I die today?’ And they don’t want it to be a simple, clean, nice death, or at a convenient time.
“They will put their head in fencing and try to cut it off or concentrate really hard on rotting from the back.
“It’s a non-stop struggle trying to keep them alive. And you make no money out of them.” Cameras have followed him for Clarkson’s Farm, starting on Amazon Prime Video on June 11.
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It’s not just the sheep which are driving Jeremy “baamy” – Government red tape also makes farm life more difficult.
Jeremy said: “Farmers keep being told what to do by people in Whitehall.
“Why is there this constant bombardment of rules and regulations on people who already know what they are doing?”
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Speaking on Saturday night’s Jonathan Ross Show, Jeremy explained that he’d taken up farming in lockdown, underestimating how hard it would be.
He said: “I have had a farm, quite a big farm, a 1000 acres, since 2008. A man farmed it for me. Then he said, ‘I’m retiring’.
“So I thought, I’ll do it myself which is the stupidest decision. I thought it was a part time thing… ended up calling it Diddly Squat because that’s how much you make from farming.”
He went on: “You get up in the morning and people shout at you. You think you know what you’re doing…They just shouted at me, all rolled their eyes.
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“Occasionally one of them would say, ‘I’m a bit disappointed…’ there was a lot of that.”
Despite his love of cars, Jeremy claimed that he hasn’t had an accident on the road in over 51-years.
He said: “I haven’t crashed on the road since 1977. It was 36 hours later [from passing my driving test] in the Yorkshire Dales.
“It was a good old crash. Then I thought, ‘I’m not doing that again’. Touch wood so far haven’t. It’s been a long time since I’ve crashed.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
