Jeremy Clarkson has been trying to keep on top of Diddly Squat Farm, but he says his co-star Kaleb Cooper wasn’t too fussed about helping him tidy up and decided to leave
Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper left Diddly Squat Farm “immediately” following a request from Jeremy Clarkson.
The 26-year-old farmer is famed for appearing on Jezza’s Amazon Prime series, which sees the former Top Gear host try his best to run his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds. The highly-anticipated fourth series is due to air in May.
Jeremy has revealed he wanted to give the farm a spring clean, describing the feat in the Sunday Times as one “task Hercules himself would describe as ambitious”. He said that one problem he’s found is that farmers “never throw anything away”.
He explains they hoarde things and reckon “every single thing ever made” could “come in handy one day”. Apparently, this is a trait shared by his co-star, Kaleb.
Jeremy claimed Kaleb acts like a child when he asks him to put something away. He wrote: “Ask him to put something away and he acts like a seven-year-old who’s been told to tidy his room.
“He’s not interested in tidiness because it takes time and time is money. What does it matter if he’s left a 60-year-old chain harrow in the field? ‘Er, because it’s ugly, Kaleb.’ He can’t get that at all. In his world, ugly doesn’t matter.”
Jeremy went on “When I asked him to help me tidy the farmyard, he immediately got into his ugly pick-up truck and went for a weekend mini break with his family in the Yorkshire Dales.”
Jeremy bought Diddly Squat Farm in 2008, but only began farming the land himself in 2021, after the previous farmer who had been managing the land retired. He took over the farm operations, rebranding it to Diddly Squat Farm, and decided to document it for Prime Video viewers.
Kaleb’s foray into agriculture came at the young age of 13, beginning his journey helping out on a dairy farm. He continued working on the farm under both Howard Pauling and later, Jeremy, and he’s not afraid to put the Top Gear star in his place when it’s needed.
The show has become a hit with viewers and those within the farming community who appreciate Jeremy’s support of their struggles. Bestselling author James Rebanks wrote to The Telegraph: “I can report back from within the farming community: they all loved that programme.
“They loved it. Ok, he’s clowning around and he plays to that audience, and a lot of farmers are lads that like machines and they would have watched Top Gear and all the rest of it.”
Clarkson has spoken about the authenticity of the show, and how the people working at Diddly Squat Farm was there before the cameras arrived. A fan had told him: “Thank you so much for making this show.
“In America here, even on reality shows it feels like people are fake, but your show everyone is so genuine and when I watch you all feel like family, I feel your joys and pains, because of that genuineness. I hope you can make this last.”
Clarkson replied: “The truth of the matter is that every person on the show was at Diddly Squat before the show began. There was no ‘casting’.”
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