Jeremy Clarkson has given an update about the future of his Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm, reassuring fans that “the show must go on”. The former Top Gear star revealed earlier this year that the reality show would be taking a break after the fifth series debuts next year. The 65-year-old sent fans into a panic when he hinted that cameras may not be returning to Diddly Squat farm for another outing.

But after the cast and crew wrapped up filming for the upcoming series, Clarkson has now suggested that the show will be making a comeback in the future. Writing in his latest column in The Sun, he said: “It’s likely that the brilliant guys who edit our show will find some nuggets of humour in the mix and that there’ll be some laughs in season five.

“And in the relentless sunshine, the Cotswolds did look fantastic. But at the coalface, it was knackering. Are we carrying on? Well, we’ve sent the cameras away to give us a break from that side of things for a while.

“But yup. Kaleb’s out there now in his tractor, and after I’ve finished writing this, I’ll be joining him. The show goes on.” The fifth instalment is expected to feature more emotional scenes after Clarkson’s Oxfordshire farm was hit by an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis.

This summer, the farm was forced to go into lockdown and shut down for two months. Bovine tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by a bacterium, and all infected animals have to be put down.

To add to the woes, a TB outbreak hit the farm, and one of his cows, which was pregnant with twins, tested positive and had to be put down. He wrote: “Even though she was pregnant with twins, she had to be destroyed.

“And what happens to her after that? Burned? Dissolved in acid? Nope. She goes into the food chain like any other farm animal.” But disaster also struck the presenter himself after he kicked off the year with a hospital, admitting: “My heart decided I really had to slow down”.

Following a health fright last year where he was close to death, Clarkson has been monitoring his wellbeing. In his Sunday Times column, Jeremy remarked: “They can photograph your ventricles and every bit of your brain, but if they want to know what’s going on with your prostate, which lives in the anus, for some reason, the doctor has to put his finger in there. I can only assume it’s because he likes it.”