Jeremy Clarkson announces devastating Clarkson's Farm death as farm shut down

Jeremy Clarkson has announced further devastating news after revealing livestock at his Diddly Squat Farm has tested positive for TB. The former Top Gear presenter announced the heartbreaking development yesterday that one of the new puppies that his dog Arya gave birth to has died.

On Sunday, he revealed that his red Labrador had given birth to 11 puppies as Jeremy and Lisa Hogan acted as midwives while the Lionesses won the Euros final.

Posting a video on his Instagram, he said: "Well done Arya, our lioness of 11 & to all the other champion Lionesses!! Quite the Sunday victory." Jeremy provided two devastating updates on the farm, which follows after his initial heartbreaking news left supporters devastated for the presenter turned farmer. Speaking to Peter Cardwell on Times Radio, Jeremy said: "It's awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it's a hypothetical threat. And then the vet looks up as he did yesterday lunchtime and said 'I'm really sorry this one's failed'. So that means we're now locked down and it's just dreadful, absolutely dreadful.

"It's only been not even 24 hours since I found out and it occupies my mind. Well it was occupying my mind but I got up this morning and found one of my puppies has died. And we've got a very sickly calf. Honestly, farming? I'm not enjoying it this week."

Jeremy also disclosed that the farm will remain shut for "certainly two months because that's how long we have to wait before we do another test" but confirmed that the farm shop remained unaffected as "it's only cows that get affected by it".

The TV personality shared the crushing update with followers on X yesterday, writing: "Bad news from Diddly Squat. We've gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated."

Bovine tuberculosis or bovine TB is "caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis, (M. bovis) which is closely related to the bacterium that causes human and avian tuberculosis. The infectious disease is respiratory and can be transmitted "through nose to nose contact and also through contact with saliva, urine, faeces and milk"."

There is also a danger it can be passed to humans, too. The revelation came just hours after Kaleb Cooper shared devastating news of his own. He told fans that criminals had stolen his farm equipment including one of his tractors and a post knocker, used for driving fence posts into the ground.