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Jeremy Clarkson has launched a fresh broadside at Chris Packham after the wildlife presenter criticised Clarkson's Farm, branding the conservationist “endlessly angry”.
The row began after Packham appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox, where he watched an episode of the hit Prime Video series and took aim at its idyllic animated opening sequence.
“That's not what a farm looks like,” Packham said. “Most farms are horrible monocultures which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals.
“The ground has been pumped full of fertiliser and most of the animals are indoors, in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark.”
Jeremy Clarkson was also seen at the event (Matthew Vincent/PA)PA WireClarkson has now fired back in his latest column for The Sun, writing: “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.”
The former Top Gear presenter 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******s.”
Clarkson also recalled that Packham had visited 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,” he wrote.
Packham has yet to respond publicly to Clarkson's comments.
Chris Packham paid tribute to Sir David (Jordan Pettitt/PA)PA ArchiveThe exchange comes after the fifth series of Clarkson's Farm aired earlier this year, during which Clarkson revealed he had been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer after a routine medical check-up in 2025.
The presenter told viewers the disease had been caught at a “really early” stage before undergoing surgery, which he said “went awry”.
He has since confirmed he is in remission and has returned to filming the already commissioned sixth series of the Amazon hit.
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The diagnosis came less than two years after Clarkson underwent emergency heart surgery after doctors warned he was days away from suffering a heart attack due to severe coronary artery disease.
His prostate cancer diagnosis has motivated other men to get check with charity Prostate Cancer UK revealing that more than 50,000 men have used their online risk checker in the week since Clarkson went public with his diagnosis.