{"id":790176,"date":"2026-10-03T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790176\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:46:15","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-prefers-2-75-job-at-3am-to-racing-expensive-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790176\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson prefers \u00a32.75 job at 3am to racing &#8216;expensive&#8217; cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The TV star is well known to audiences over the globe for his work alongside James May and Richard Hammond on motoring shows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From the BBC&#8217;s Top Gear to Prime Video&#8217;s The Grand Tour, the trio travelled, raced and shared banter, becoming iconic household names.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From there he transitioned into farming, owning Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington and starring in Prime Video&#8217;s Clarkson&#8217;s Farm documentary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26603223.alison-hammond-rushed-hospital-clutching-chest-live-tv\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alison Hammond rushed to hospital after clutching chest live on TV<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last month, Mr Clarkson hosted Hawkstone Harvest Festival at The Farmer&#8217;s Dog pub, his Oxfordshire venue near Burford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 66-year-old welcomed thousands of visitors for an event featuring live music, food and drinks from his Hawkstone brand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the festival, Mr Clarkson appeared on stage alongside fellow TV presenter George Lamb and Groove Armada musician Andy Cato.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was here that the TV personality revealed he now prefers some farming jobs to his role on The Grand Tour, travelling the world and driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26601934.clarksons-farm-star-kaleb-coopers-new-puppy-rushed-emergency-vets\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clarkson&#8217;s Farm star Kaleb Cooper&#8217;s new puppy rushed to emergency vets<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I watched the new first episode of The Grand Tour with the new hosts the night before last in London, with everybody there,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I watched them, and they were doing what I&#8217;ve done for the last 25 years in driving very expensive cars, somebody else&#8217;s cars, very fast around race tracks in the sunshine and being heroes, and I just thought, &#8216;No, that is not as good as giving birth to a calf. It just isn&#8217;t.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And I got paid an absolute fortune for driving around corners too quickly while shouting, and I get paid about \u00a32.75 for delivering a calf at 3am in the morning, but I much prefer the calf.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I truly love giving birth to my first calf on my own farm. Unbelievable. Unbelievable moment. I loved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV star is well known to audiences over the globe for his work alongside James May and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790176","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=790176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}