Jeremy Clarkson, 65, admits ‘it’s too awful to bear’ as he teases ‘most disturbing scene imaginable’ in new Clarkson’s Farm series
Jeremy Clarkson fans will be eagerly awaiting the new series of his hit series, Clarkson’s Farm, with series four coming to Amazon Prime this month.
While the former Top Gear star’s show is beloved for being humorous at times as well as informative, providing fly-on-the-wall insight into the goings-on at the presenter’s Oxfordshire farm, there is inevitably some heartache involved at times.
Last year’s series saw viewers – and Clarkson’s partner, Lisa Hogan – burst into tears when one of the farm’s piglets sadly died.
Fans will be hoping the 2025 series won’t have them wiping their eyes, Clarkson has teased that there will be one harrowing moment.
When asked if this year’s series would also feature devastating moments, Clarkson replied: “In this series we got goats, they’re delightful.
“So it was much more bucolic on the animal front this time around.” However, it seems there is more piglet tragedy on the horizon.
He reflected: “We did have one heart-rending story with one of the pigs, which just simply would not grow.
“He was being terribly bullied by his brothers and his male cousin because he was so much smaller. He wasn’t a runt. He was just like a miniature version of what he should have been.
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“And so I was a bit worried that they were actually going to kill him. So I put him in with his sisters, who were much nicer to him.”
The sad saga wasn’t over though, with Clarkson admitting to Amazon Prime: “But then, of course, he gets to the age when you really don’t want a boy pig and a girl pig together, especially when the girl pig is your sister.
“So he becomes a bit of a hero and then there is possibly the most disturbing scene imaginable when he’s finally put back with his brothers.
“I’ll leave it at that. I don’t even want to think about it. It was too awful to bear. I’ll just say we were always taught by the movie Deliverance that piggies squeal in certain circumstances. You find out it’s not true on Clarkson’s Farm.”
The tease of the upsetting moment is reminiscent of last year’s sad episode, which saw Hogan sobbing over a tragic incident on the farm.
Clarkson was seen tending to the new-born animals, however it soon becomes clear there was a problem.
“One of them is as weak as hell,” the Grand Tour star commented as he reached into an incubator.
Later, he shows Hogan that two of the piglets have died, to which she responds: “Oh no,” before bursting into tears.
As she cradles the baby animals, Clarkson placed a comforting arm around his girlfriend.
Fans were also left heartbroken by the farm’s loss, with many taking to social media at the time to share their reactions.
Clarkson himself commented last year that he’d “never seen Hogan so upset” following the sheer number of losses they encountered after introducing the pigs to the farm.
Clarkson reflected: “I reckoned the pigs would provide something that’s sadly lacking in farming today: a bit of genuine happiness.
“Instead, it was almost unbelievably sad. I’ve never seen Lisa so upset. The film crew looked shell-shocked.”
He delved further to the Times: “We had a catastrophically high level of deaths and I was desperately worried we were doing something wrong, but it turned out we weren’t.
“It was just that pigs are bad mothers — the Sandy and Black particularly so. That’s why it’s a rare breed.”