Jeremy Clarkson ‘absolutely devastated’ after Clarkson’s Farm location has TB outbreak

Jeremy Clarkson has announced that his Diddly Squat farm has been rocked by a tuberculosis outbreak.

The TV personality shared the “bad news” from the location at the centre of his Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm on Thursday (31 July).

“We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated,” he wrote on X/Twitter, revealing that “the offending animal is pregnant with twins”.

Clarkson also said that tests for Endgame, the Aberdeen Angus bull featured in his hit show, were “inconclusive”.

Bovine tuberculosis or TV is an infectious respiratory disease of cattle and can also infect badgers, deer, goats and pigs.

The disease is the biggest challenge facing the farming industry today.

“An increasing number of farm families are facing the emotional and financial hardship of a TB breakdown,” Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon TD said in May 2025, urging for “decisive action”.

There are differing beliefs over how to reduce the spread, with government officils believing badgers to be the source of the disease.

However, in 2022, a “landmark” report found that a badger cull did not contribute to a significant fall in levels of tuberculosis in cattle. This led the RSPCA to call for an immediate halt to culling programme.

Sources recently told The Independent that, last year, 10,769 badgers were killed, bringing the total killed in 12 years to around 240,000

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Despite the government’s scientific chief advising against the action, officials approved a fresh round of badger culling in June 2025.

Clarkson bought the Diddly Squat land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he decided to see if he could run it himself – a venture tracked in Clarkson’s Farm.

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