Hugh Laurie secures brand new role in career change from acting<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “30,000 farmers came, and I decided to go and drill the barley in the field that they’d all have to drive by.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Every single farmer in the country would drive past it, and I did the drilling, and I didn’t level the drill.\n<\/p>\n
\n “On a couple of occasions, I forgot to turn the fan on and apparently didn’t drive in a straight line either.\n<\/p>\n
\n “You’ll see this in season six, but Kaleb did a speech when he’s almost in tears saying, ‘I’m not from a farming background; lots of farmers don’t think that I’m a proper farmer; you’ve completely messed this up; they’re all going to think that I can’t farm’, and it’s one of the most heartfelt tragic things you’ve ever seen.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I felt so ashamed, so genuinely ashamed, [that] I had to go home and have 42 pints of Hawkstone to make myself feel better, but I think that was probably my worst mistake, genuinely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV presenter, known for his work on Top Gear and The Grand Tour, owns Diddly Squat Farm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-597899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}