Jeremy Clarkson reveals he was forced to call the police after his farm was targeted by robbers who used a drone to scout the area – but star insists he has the perfect deterrent

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was forced to call the police after thieves targeted his farm.

The former Top Gear host, 64, purchased Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire back in 2008 as it’s since been the focus of his popular Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm.

However, despite its TV presence, that didn’t stop potential robbers from setting their sights on the farm and its animals, with Jeremy revealing in his The Sun column that they’d even used drones to scout the area. 

He wrote: ‘Two weeks ago, five men in a van came into the farmyard. They checked out the security cameras and asked Kaleb [Cooper] how many dogs were on the site.

‘I reported this to the police who said the plates on the van had been cloned. More worryingly, on two separate nights in the last week, a drone has been spotted, scouting the house and the farmyard.’

And after police warned the star to made sure that his security systems were ‘up to scratch’, Jeremy insisted that he had the perfect deterrent to keep the robbers at bay – guinea fowl. 

The former Top Gear host, 64, purchased Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire back in 2008 as it’s since been the focus of his popular Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm [pictured with Kaleb Cooper]

In his article, he revealed that his daughter and her husband gifted him 12 of the birds at Christmas in revenge for the consistently loud toys he purchases for his granddaughter.

And Jeremy insists that the guinea fowl are enough to drive any would-be thief away due to their ear-piercingly loud vocals, which the TV host compared to Nasa testing their 37million horsepower Space Shuttle engines.

On whether his security systems were up to par, he remarked: ‘Oh trust me on this. They are. Anyone who tries to burgle us is going to have their eardrums turned into a blood-speckled gooey mush.’

Meanwhile, despite the farm being under threat, there’s good news for Jeremy’s co-star Kaleb Cooper.

The Mail’s Richard Eden revealed that Jeremy’s popular sidekick pocketed £910,000 profit at Kaleb Cooper Productions, the company into which he channels his earnings from the series. 

Accounts report £960,000 in assets before bills, including £400,000 in cash. Meanwhile, his takings, in the year to June 2024, include a £666,000 profit for the year. 

He set up his TV company in 2021 and runs it alongside farming businesses K Cooper Contracting and K Cooper Holdings. 

Profits made there amount to £100,000 combined, meaning Cooper has now made his first million at 26. 

Despite its TV presence, that didn’t stop potential robbers from setting their sights on the farm and its animals, with Jeremy revealing that they’d even used drones to scout the area

After police warned the star to made sure that his security systems were ‘up to scratch’, Jeremy insisted that he had the perfect deterrent to keep the robbers at bay – guinea fowl 

Meanwhile, despite the farm being under threat, there’s good news for Jeremy’s co-star Kaleb Cooper, who has become a millionaire aged 26 

The Chipping Norton native has long spoken about his dream of owning his own farm – something that now seems more achievable due to his newfound fame. 

Kaleb had previously mentioned paying himself just 50p an hour due to the volatile nature of farming costs and profit margins, especially when experimenting with new business ventures. 

In 2022, he shared: ‘When I’m working for myself when I’m feeding my calves in the morning – I bought eight calves,’

‘It’s like a little bit of a new business idea that I’m doing, buying calves in and then feed them on milk, which costs me about £200 a calf, then selling them at nine months.’ 

He added: ‘I’m trying to get a profit and see if it will work. I worked it out the other day, do you know how much my hourly rate is, how much I pay myself? 50p an hour.’ 

His hourly rate was a stark contrast to his hard work, as Jeremy, who has praised Kaleb as ‘the hardest working person I know’, pointed out that he works 18 hours a day, with no days off.

Kaleb, who shares two children – Oscar, three, and Willa, one – with fiancée Taya, has consistently said that his ‘one goal in life’ is to own his own farm, something he wants ‘more than anything.’