{"id":722995,"date":"2026-08-01T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:55:09","slug":"rock-legend-offers-help-to-jeremy-clarksons-cotswolds-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722995\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock legend offers help to Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s Cotswolds farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host originally purchased the spot, then known as Curdle Hill Farm, in 2008.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is the main setting and focus for the documentary series Clarkson&#8217;s Farm, which has four seasons to date on Prime Video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Problems arose last summer, though, with a series of serious issues plaguing Mr Clarkson and his team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26420114.football-legend-sells-4m-cotswolds-mansion-wife-can-go-university\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Football legend sells \u00a34m Cotswolds mansion so wife can go to university<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 66-year-old announced in 2025 that a case of Bovine TB had hit Diddly Squat: &#8220;Bad news from Diddly Squat. We\u2019ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He then added later: &#8220;I should clear this up,\u00a0really. It\u2019s Bovine TB that we have.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It doesn\u2019t affect people, just our poor cows.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Things went from bad to worse with Mr Clarkson then adding that the year\u2019s crop intake would be &#8220;catastrophic&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former Top Gear presenter said: \u201cIt looks like this year\u2019s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26421485.david-beckham-spotted-sports-legend-away-cotswolds\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Beckham spotted with sports legend away from the Cotswolds<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIf a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the wake of the problems at the Oxfordshire farm, one famous face offered his help to Mr Clarkson.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Brian May, guitarist of the rock band Queen, reached out to the motoring journalist last August, according to the Daily Express.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The musician&#8217;s Save Me Trust has contacted\u00a0Mr Clarkson following the TB outbreak, despite the pair previously\u00a0disagreeing\u00a0about badger culling.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When contacted by the Daily Express, the charity confirmed that Anne Brummer, who, in 2009,\u00a0alongside Mr May, founded the charity, had been in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host originally purchased the spot, then known as Curdle Hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722995","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=722995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}