UK: Jeremy Clarkson ditches blowing up fast cars to ride tractors in Amazon’s new farming series ahead of The Grand Tour season 4

Taking to Instagram, the former Top Gear presenter, 59, posted a photo of an allotment garden with the caption: ‘Fully rural now.’

By Adam Miller
Metro
27 May 2019

Jeremy Clarkson is a changed man. The Grand Tour presenter has announced he’s taking a break from trashing cars and wreaking havoc with Richard Hammond and James May to enlighten fans on the highs and lows of farming in a new series for Amazon Prime. The 59-year-old has taken a drastic U-turn for I Bought A Farm after notoriously disregarding concerns for the environment to front an agricultural programme urging viewers to acknowledge dwindling food supplies with an inside look at his life as a proud farmer.

The former Top Gear presenter, who lives on an enormous 1,000 acre Chipping Norton farm, will kick off filming the show, which he insisted will be much more graphic than Countryfile, in September. ‘This is not Kate Humble – much as I like Kate Humble – with 20 acres, bottle-feeding a lamb. Or a TV presenter who grows veg in his back garden

This is actual farming: Life, death and form filling,’ he told the Sunday Times. ‘We’re not making Countryfile. We’ll be showing it warts and all. For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme.’

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