{"id":327530,"date":"2025-08-08T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327530\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:35:09","slug":"devastated-jeremy-clarkson-issues-catastrophic-diddly-squat-announcement-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327530\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastated Jeremy Clarkson issues &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; Diddly Squat announcement | Celebrity News | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Clarkson has issued further bad news from his <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jeremy Clarkson issues &#039;good news&#039; announcement following farm lockdown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/2091991\/jeremy-clarkson-the-farmers-dog-diddly-squat-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diddly Squat farm<\/a> as the devastated farmer claimed it is going to be &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; over the next year. In a social media post, the Clarkson&#8217;s Farm star shared that the issue at hand is not one that only he is facing and it is a &#8220;worry to anyone who eats food&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Posting to X (formerly <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>), Jeremy emotionally penned: &#8220;It looks like this year\u2019s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.&#8221; While he didn&#8217;t clarify exactly what had gone wrong on the farm, fans in the post&#8217;s comments assumed that his bad luck was down to the British weather. One fan asked: &#8220;Why? What&#8217;s going on? Is it weather?&#8221; Another added: &#8220;Details please, was it just the unpredictable weather?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t the first time that\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/1523535\/jeremy-clarkson-kaleb-cooper-clarksons-farm-animals-crop-dead-holiday-family-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarkson&#8217;s crops have wilted<\/a>. Back in June, when the UK experienced a scorching heatwave, the former Top Gear presenter wrote in his Times column to explain how the unpredictable weather patterns had been affecting his\u00a0Diddly Squat Farm, where a severe lack of rain in recent months had stunted the growth of his crops.<\/p>\n<p>He remarked: &#8220;It used to be reasonably predictable, but it just isn&#8217;t anymore. In March Diddly Squat had no rain at all. Not even a drop. In April we got 20mm, which in old money is bugger all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so far in May we&#8217;ve had 4mm. You couldn&#8217;t keep a window box going with a dribble like that. It&#8217;s been drier than it was in 1976. And while we do have about thirty springs on the farm, they&#8217;re all in the wrong place. So my onions and my beetroots are just sitting in the dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;The wheat, meanwhile, is curling up, the barley won&#8217;t really get cracking at all and I dread to think what manner of terribleness is being foisted on my poor potatoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The devastating update comes just days after Jeremy shared the news of a death on his farm, as he also faced heartbreaking issues with his cows. He shared that\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2020525\/clarksons-farm-kaleb-cooper-diddly-squat-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the farm would have to close temporarily<\/a>, while his shop would remain open after an outbreak of Bovine TB (<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/2091169\/jeremy-clarkson-announcement-diddly-squat-farm-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuberculosis<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, the star shared: \u201cBad news from Diddly Squat. We\u2019ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.\u201d Jeremy later added: \u201cI should clear this up, really. It\u2019s Bovine TB that we have. It doesn\u2019t affect people, just our poor cows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Times Radio, he confirmed the farm\u2019s closure and said: \u201cIt&#8217;s awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows, and then you sort of become blas\u00e9. It&#8217;s a hypothetical threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The presenter admitted: \u201cIt&#8217;s only been not even 24 hours since I found out, and it occupies my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Announcing a heartbreaking death, Jeremy continued: &#8220;Well, it was occupying my mind, but I got up this morning and found one of my puppies has died. And we&#8217;ve got a very sickly calf. Honestly, farming? I&#8217;m not enjoying it this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson has issued further bad news from his Diddly Squat farm as the devastated farmer claimed it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118038,118043,118042,12439,77,471,439,118039,118041,118040,60547,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-327530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-catastrophic-announcement","9":"tag-clarksons-farm-death","10":"tag-clarksons-farm-new-series","11":"tag-diddly-squat-farm","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-farming","14":"tag-jeremy-clarkson","15":"tag-jeremy-clarkson-farm","16":"tag-jeremy-clarkson-lisa-hogan","17":"tag-jeremy-clarkson-net-worth","18":"tag-showbiz-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114992468790991449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}