‘Lisa’s given up on making me looking good – I love fat jabs but trimming my eyebrows was too far,’ says Jeremy Clarkson

THE new series of Clarkson’s Farm sees its leading man suffer many humiliations, from getting his belly stuck between a fence and a trailer to realising his eyebrows are out of control. 

And now Jeremy Clarkson has turned to tackling middle-aged spread with Mounjaro fat jabs, which have helped him lose almost 2st. 

GettySun columnist Jeremy Clarkson is not expecting girlfriend Lisa Hogan to be too impressed by his slimmer, more groomed look after shedding 2st with the help of fat jabs[/caption] PALisa’s role as a Clarkson’s Farm ‘cast’ member is just as important as Kaleb Cooper or Charlie Ireland’s[/caption] PR HANDOUTLisa’s given up trimming my eyebrows and tidying me up. I’m 65. It’s not like I’m David Gandy, says Clarkson[/caption]

The petrolhead-turned-farmer begrudgingly completed his new look by having his facial hair trimmed with scissors, a spectacle seen in the fourth season of his Prime Video show, which starts dropping today. 

But the former Grand Tour presenter insists he’s no model and is not expecting girlfriend Lisa Hogan to be too impressed by his slimmer, more groomed look. 

Jeremy said: “Lisa’s given up on trying to make me look presentable. I mean, I’ve never heard such nonsense.

“Trimming eyebrows? What does it matter? I’m 65, it’s not like I’m David Gandy.” 

Of the moment he was filmed getting jammed while doing farm jobs, he added: “That was a very narrow gap in that fence, I’m also keen to point out. Even Jon Bon Jovi or Willem Dafoe would have got stuck in that gap. 

“The Mounjaro has been an extraordinary game changer, though. I’m definitely sticking with it. 

‘I just drink too much’ 

“I lost about a stone and a half, maybe a little bit more, and then it’s just levelled out now. 

“I think I eat pretty well, I just drink too much — that’s the essence of it. 

“If I could just do something about that, but then I think, ‘What’s the point?’.” 

Lisa, whose role as a Clarkson’s Farm “cast” member is just as important as Kaleb Cooper or Charlie Ireland’s, would perhaps be more impressed if her boyfriend could brush up on his biology. 

On series four, she has Jeremy squirming when he admits he cannot spot the clitoris on the female pigs he is trying to have bred. 

“Jesus,” she says, staring at him in disbelief. “He can’t find it either, I can tell you. 

“Do you not know what a clitoris looks like? Have you never found one? Have you never seen one?” 

The new episodes about Jeremy’s exploits at Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire are certainly packed with laughs, but they look at serious issues, too. 

As the TV host battled last August to launch his new pub, The Farmer’s Dog, while bringing in the harvest, he is seen growing increasingly ill. 

Eventually, he ended up needing to undergo a life- saving heart operation in October, which saw him have two stents fitted to treat blocked arteries. 

So did he realise he was at death’s door? 

Jeremy said: “I had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, ‘Well, I am working very hard’. But it was very tricky. 

“The rest is, ‘Oh, here he is farming and Kaleb and Charlie and Gerald and Lisa — all the usual suspects. 

“Then suddenly, in the last two programmes, it just goes off like a bomb’.” 

Jeremy reckons the best episodes in the eight-part series, which is being dropped in three chunks over the next 14 days, are the final two.

That is because they chronicle his health spiral which, however difficult to watch, are unquestionably some of the most dramatic scenes ever shown on the hit programme.

Jeremy explained: “You can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm. 

“I get in a proper old panic. 

“I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem. 

“When you see how stressful it was trying to do those two things . . .  there’s simply no sleep. 

“I was coming back knackered from a day trying to get the pub open, and having to get straight into the tractor to do grain carting through the night. 

As the TV host battled to launch his new pub, The Farmer’s Dog, last August while bringing in the harvest, he is seen growing increasingly ill The Mounjaro has been an extraordinary game changer, though. I’m definitely sticking with it, says Jeremy

“You can’t make the harvest wait. If it’s dry, ready and fit, as they say in farming — if the wheat and barley are fit — you’ve got to get out there. God, it was knackering. 

“And the amount of things that went wrong in the two days in the opening weekend . . . I know everyone’s going to say, ‘You made that up, it can’t possibly be that disastrous’. 

“But it was. It was one thing after another after another. 

“It was incredibly stressful. That was idiotic to try and do what I tried to do over those weekends.” 

Jeremy cannot even say he was not warned about the stresses and pressure of opening a pub, because he consulted various pals who had done the same. 

Given the circles he moves in, they included a galaxy of stars. 

In Clarkson’s Farm 4, he is actually seen turning to some of the celebrities for advice. 

Jeremy said: “There’s quite a few people I know with pubs — Guy Ritchie, James May, Jodie Kidd, James Blunt and even Piers Morgan. 

“They all said, ‘Don’t do it’. I won’t go into the details, but in essence every single person I spoke to said, ‘Don’t do it, you’re mad. The reality just simply never matches up to the dream’. 

“Piers said everything would be stolen. I thought, ‘It might be in your pub!’. Annoyingly, it turns out he was right. I had 400 pint pots stolen a week. 

“He’s going to get in touch and say, ‘Why didn’t you listen to me, again?’. But he should just be grateful he’s on a TV show that people watch.” 

‘Poignant moment’ 

The introduction of the pub to season four gives the show a different feel to previous series, but Jeremy insists it is not a sudden, gimmicky departure. 

He said: “In season two, I tried to open a restaurant. 

“I always harboured the idea of showing what we grow on the farm in a restaurant or a cafe or in some way. 

“We weren’t allowed to open a restaurant, but it lived in my head the idea we could do this, somehow.

“Then I was talking to a friend who has some pubs in London and he was saying how cheap they are around here and how many of them are for sale. 

“I started to look into it and I thought, ‘Bloody hell, they are, and there are a lot for sale — and this would enable me to do what I wanted to do’. 

“It might feel different, but it’s the same story. It’s farming.” 

Arthur Edwards / The SunThe new episodes about Jeremy’s exploits at Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire are certainly packed with laughs, but they look at serious issues, too[/caption] Harriet Cowan was drafted in for a few weeks to help while Jeremy’s sidekick, Kaleb Cooper, was on his UK tour, built on the fame he gained on Clarkson’s FarmYouTube Jeremy freely admits he cannot, as yet, manage without Kaleb on his Cotswolds farm

Another big change this time around is the arrival of young farmer Harriet Cowan. 

She was drafted in for a few weeks to help while Jeremy’s sidekick, Kaleb Cooper, was on his UK tour, built on the fame he gained on Clarkson’s Farm. 

As well as trimming Jeremy’s eyebrows for him, Harriet can perform every single task required of a farmer — while wearing giant false eyelashes.

She also introduces Jeremy to TikTok and explains how the younger farming community use it to share their experiences and combat loneliness. 

In a moving moment, she tells Jeremy that she knows other young farmers who have taken their own lives because of the isolation and lack of money in rural communities. 

Jeremy said: “It was a surprise to me. I think a lot of people, certainly of my generation, look at kids on TikTok and think, ‘What is the point of this meaningless existence they’re all having?’. 

“But then she explained that it was a way she can connect with other people when she’s doing something, because it is lonely. It suddenly made sense. 

“Even though she’s only a kid, she knows people who have killed themselves. I thought it was a poignant moment. The problem with these young farmers is they have no money. 

“Their friends go to the pub at night and they can’t afford to go, and their friends go on holiday, but they can’t afford to go.” 

Although she was only a temporary farmhand, Harriet may be back — if Kaleb decides to do another, brief disappearing act. 

Jeremy said: “It’s a reality show. We don’t just bring characters in because the TV show needs it. You bring them in because you really need them. 

“I loved Harriet to bits and I wish her all the very best. She was fantastic to have around. 

“But the truth is, we’ve got Kaleb, and he might go off and do Celebrity Love Island or something, and if I can’t manage, I’ll call Harriet in a heartbeat.”

Jeremy freely admits he cannot, as yet, manage without Kaleb on his Cotswolds farm — a fact his assistant is staggered by. 

He said: “Kaleb was cross with me. 

“He honestly thought, ‘How on earth has he been doing this for four years and you’re still so useless you can’t manage on your own?’. 

“That was what was going through his head — you’re literally the most incompetent farmer I’ve ever seen. 

“I go away for two weeks and you make such a mess of things that you had to bring someone else in.” 

But Jeremy teased: “It’s my absolute goal to become so good at it, I don’t need the annoying foetus.” 

The first four episodes of Clarkson’s Farm 4 are out tomorrow on Prime Video.