Jeremy Clarkson has launched a blistering attack on Chris Packham, calling the naturalist “endlessly angry” after he dismissed the opening credits of Clarkson’s Farm as fantasy. Packham, appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox, watched the animated sequence and snapped: “That’s not what a farm looks like. Most farms are horrible monocultures which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals.”
Packham went on: “The ground has been pumped full of fertiliser and most of the animals are indoors, in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark.” The comments did not sit well with Clarkson, who used his Sun column to hit back. “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,” he wrote.
“Jeremy Clarkson hits back at Chris Packham after naturalist slammed Clarkson's Farm as depicting 'horrible monocultures'.”
Clarkson added: “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.” He then revealed that Packham had actually visited his Diddly Squat farm in 2012 for a day of “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,” Clarkson wrote.
Packham has not yet responded to the broadside. The row comes as Clarkson, 66, continues to recover from a prostate cancer diagnosis, which was revealed in the finale of the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm earlier this year. In the episode, he told his farm colleagues, including an emotional Kaleb Cooper, that he had been diagnosed in summer 2025. After a biopsy, doctors said the cancer was aggressive but caught early. A procedure to remove the growth went “awry”, Clarkson told viewers from hospital, adding: “I’m going to be here for a little while. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Take care, everyone.”
He has since announced he is in remission and has been seen filming scenes for a sixth series, commissioned by Amazon Video. The health scare came less than two years after a major heart scare, when doctors told him he may have been days away from a heart attack.