Diddly Squat Farm
Before revealing the winner, I need to send apologies to family members and friends who are about to have their hopes dashed. In the harrowing game of love and war, everyone needs to be reminded, you can’t win ‘em all. Jeremy Clarkson may not have won ‘em all, but he walked away with the next best thing: being crowned #1 Sexiest Man in two consecutive years.
Wrong Again
At first, I thought Clarkson was just a self-proclaimed winner. Realizing I was wrong, I then thought, perhaps I had slept through the voting process … oblivious to the stakes involved.
Jeremy Clarkson has done it again! The TV icon has been crowned the UK’s sexiest man for the second consecutive year, according to a recent survey from Illicit Encounters, an online dating site for married people. Remarkably, Clarkson managed to outshine heartthrobs like Cillian Murphy and Idris Elba. Tom Holland came in second, followed by Prince William in third place.
Prince of Wales made it to the top five. His brother, Prince Harry, finished far behind in 47th place.
In the documentary series, Jeremy Clarkson isn’t just the Sexiest Man Alive. He also attempts to run a 1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds (an “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty”).
What does Clarkson’s farm produce? For a hint, clue into the farm’s name: Next to nothing.
What Clarkson has to say:
- “A bad day on the farm is better than a good day at the office.”
What others say about Jeremy Clarkson:
- Kaleb Cooper, (farm manager): “It’s very difficult to work with him. He doesn’t listen.”
- Lisa Hogan (Clarkson’s partner) “What the f**k are you doing?!”
- A Researcher at “Top Gear:” (Clarkson) was opinionated and irreverent, rather than respectfully po-faced. The fact that he looked and sounded exactly like a twenty-something ex-public schoolboy didn’t matter.
Why on Earth Do That?
Clarkson says the show “has made people aware of what farmers go through.” Clarkson’s Farm is a show about Jeremy Clarkson and his farm in the Cotswolds. Clarkson frequently faces unhelpful weather, disobedient animals, and unresponsive crops.
Jeremy Clarkson is a journalist, a broadcaster, and a man who travels the world to slide sideways in supercars while shouting. Not being a farmer didn’t deter Jeremy from buying a 1,000-acre farm in the English countryside and deciding to run it himself, despite knowing nothing whatsoever about farming.
Mother Nature can be cruel. Just ask any pig farmer. In one of Clarkson’s episodes, Jeremy focuses on Andy Barr, a pig farmer on Exmoor, a former royal hunting forest.
“My wife and I have been pig farming for over 11 years and the first thing the show did is it brought back heart-breaking memories of when we first started,” Farmer Barr stated.
He said specifically a scene about piglets dying made him emotional.
“I think he summed it up perfectly – we asked ourselves are we doing something wrong, what are we doing wrong?”
Clarkson on Raising Pigs:
“I thought it’d be fun to have them, and then they just died in alarming numbers, and it was very heartbreaking. I’ve never seen Lisa cry, not once ever, until that all started unfolding. It was just terrible.”
Mother Nature Isn’t Always Kind
Sows lie on their babies, it’s what happens. I wouldn’t say they’re bad mothers. It’s nature, it happens.
There (are) probably mixed reactions to this. A lot of it I think is true.
“Some of the show is quite entertaining,” reports one viewer. And then you sit there and go: ‘Why on earth would you do that?’
But whether it’s right or wrong, it has made people more aware of what farmers go through.
