Jeremy Clarkson could be getting a new farming rival, as a GB News contributor teams up with a radio host to launch their own farming show.
According to reports, Ingrid Tarrant, 70, who is the ex-wife of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant, is set to launch her own six-part farming show alongside radio presenter Stephanie Brookes.
The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden claimed he had been told that the show would be “Clarkson’s Farm, but with lipstick” and that the show would “see the pair embrace the quirks and charms of rural life”.
Ingrid Tarrant has appeared on GB News several times as a contributor in order to discuss a variety of topics from Covid-19 restrictions to hate crime to her life with her ex-husband, who Jeremy succeeded as presenter on the iconic show.
Mr Eden’s claims come as Clarkson’s Farm continues to go from strength to strength with its main star building a reputation as an advocate for farmers around the country.
This has included comparing the plight of miners during the 1980s to the plight of farmers in the 2020s after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced new proposals for agricultural policy earlier this year.
During the autumn, the Chancellor announced changes to inheritance tax laws for farmers. Under these changes, farms and agricultural assets worth under £1 million would be exempt, but anything above the threshold would face an effective tax rate of 20 percent.
In response, Jeremy wrote in his column that farmers were being targeted in the same way miners were during the 1980s. He recalled: "I grew up in a mining area.
"And I was surrounded, every time I went anywhere, by the men who made all this tick. The men who, frankly, made everything tick back then. The miners were consumed by a combination of intense sadness and rage.
"And I’m seeing the exact same sense of bewildered despair today, in the countryside, because the farmers are the new miners — pawns in a political game they don’t understand, and they are being absolutely battered."
This isn’t the first time Jeremy has unleashed an attack on the incumbent Labour government.
A year on from their return to power following nearly two decades of Conservative rule, Jeremy is less than impressed with what he’s seen of Sir Keir Starmer and his approach to politics — particularly on the farming tax, which Jeremy said could have been executed better.
Writing in the Times he said: “What annoys me about this whole sorry saga though is how this government is so blind to nuance and political nous.
“We saw it first of all with the family farm tax. They could have used a sniper’s rifle to take out the rich bastards they were after. But…they used a blunderbuss and hit absolutely everyone.”