{"id":603152,"date":"2026-05-25T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:13:11","slug":"heartbroken-jeremy-clarkson-rips-into-keir-starmer-live-on-stage-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603152\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heartbroken’ Jeremy Clarkson rips into Keir Starmer live on stage | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clarkson’s Farm<\/a> star Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer live on stage at the Great British Farm Fest, which ran from Friday, 22 until Sunday, 24 May. As the festival drew to a close, the 66-year-old took to the stage with his Prime Video<\/a> co-stars as they reflected on the event, which celebrated British farming.<\/p>\n

As he spoke to the crowd about the struggles facing farmers, he reflected on the Bovine TB outbreak which hit Diddly Squat Farm<\/a> in July 2025. “Those of you not involved in cow farming, you have no idea how devastating that is. I mean, we were absolutely heartbroken at the farm, having to send pregnant cows off for Keir Starmer<\/a> to kill them for no reason…” he said. The animal affected was a cow called Pepper, who had also been the very first calf born on his Oxfordshire farm. She was pregnant with twins when she was euthanised because of the disease.<\/p>\n

Bovine tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by a bacterium, and all infected animals have to be put down.<\/p>\n

At the time he announced the outbreak with a post on X. “Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.”<\/p>\n

Just day later he further expanded on what it meant for the farm. “The disruption\u2019s enormous, because you aren\u2019t allowed to operate as a business,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You have to isolate them for two months. So all the barns we needed to store the grain in, we now have to convert into a cow hospital. We\u2019ve got another calf with pneumonia, so that needs to be housed.”<\/p>\n

“And we can\u2019t buy or sell a cow now because the farm officially, you know, has TB,” he wrote in his column for The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He had spoken about Pepper’s death at the time in his newspaper column. He wrote: “Even though she was pregnant with twins, she had to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

“And what happens to her after that? Burned? Dissolved in acid? Nope. She goes into the food chain like any other farm animal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarkson’s Farm star Jeremy Clarkson slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer live on stage at the Great British Farm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21393,205720,205718,205719,28974,96,40154,59,205715,2503,205716,205717,205721,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-clarksons-farm","tag-clarksons-farm-latest","tag-clarksons-farm-news","tag-clarksons-farm-updates","tag-diddly-squat-farm","tag-entertainment","tag-farmfest","tag-gb","tag-great-british-farm-fest","tag-jeremy-clarkson","tag-jeremy-clarkson-news","tag-jeremy-clarkson-updates","tag-keri-starmer-slammed-by-jeremy-clarkson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}