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Jeremy Clarkson hits back at Chris Packham remarks about Clarkson’s Farm on Celebrity Gogglebox

Clarkson branded the Springwatch presenter "endlessly angry".

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Published: Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 11:19 am

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Jeremy Clarkson has hit back at Chris Packham over remarks he made about the new season of Clarkson’s Farm on Celebrity Gogglebox, branding his comments "b*****ks".

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The Springwatch presenter appeared on an episode of Celebrity Gogglebox on Friday 3 July, during which he accused the title sequence of Clarkson's Farm of giving viewers an unrealistic picture of farming.

"That’s not what a farm looks like," he said, before going on to criticise modern farming more generally.

"Most farms are horrible monocultures which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals," he added.

"The ground has been pumped full of fertiliser and most of the animals are indoors, in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark."

In a retort to Packham, Clarkson wrote in his latest column for The Sun: "The endlessly angry Chris Packham went on Gogglebox this week and erupted in blind fury about the Winnie the Pooh-ish opening credits to my farming programme."

Chris Packham wearing a mustard yellow polo shirt, looking ahead.

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He continued: "Now, of course this kind of stuff plays well in a room full of nose rings and Palestine flags at a vegan activist meeting in Hackney. But he was on a television programme, and it didn’t play well at all. Because it’s b*****ks."

"And Chris knows it's b*****ks because, back in 2012, he came to Diddly Squat and spent the day in our woods, foraging and bird watching.

"If there had been some animals in a crate, being crushed, I'm sure he would have noticed and said something."

Packham has yet to respond to Clarkson’s comments.

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Clarkson’s Farm season 5 launched onto our screens last month, with Clarkson sharing in the finale that he has been diagnosed with cancer.

The presenter had warned his fans on social media ahead of the new season of the show, saying that the final episodes would be "a difficult watch".

In the episodes, Clarkson is shown coming to terms with what he terms an "aggressive" form of cancer that was caught at a "really early stage" following a diagnosis in May 2025.

More recently, Clarkson announced that he is officially in remission after follow-up testing two months prior.

"I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man," he said.

"It was an aggressive type of cancer. It could have spread, it could have gone into the pancreas, it could have gone anywhere, and that would have been trouble."

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Molly Moss is a Trends Writer for Radio Times, covering the latest trends across TV, film and more. She has an MA in Newspaper Journalism and has previously written for publications including The Guardian, The Times and The Sun Online.

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