JEREMY CLARKSON WARNS FARMING IS 'MUCH DIRTIER AND HARDER'

• A third season of Clarkson's Farm is set to be released on Amazon Prime
• Follows the couple's lives on the Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire

This is the emotional moment Jeremy Clarkson consoles his girlfriend Lisa Hogan after watching their piglets die on Diddly Squat Farm, after she revealed she could end up with a criminal record over sales at their shop.

In the latest trailer for the third season of Clarkson's Farm , viewers see Hogan crying on the former Top Gear host shoulder as she struggles to come to terms with the death of a drove of rare breed pigs.

Ahead of the new season release, the actress, 50, claimed the new episodes showed that Clarkson, 63, was becoming 'more a man of the land than a man of the road.'

Hogan also admitted that she had been involved in a 'serious conversation' over the produce the couple were allowed to sell in their Oxfordshire farm shop.

She learned through their land agent and advisor Charlie Ireland that the shop could only sell items produced within 16 miles of their farm and failure to comply would lead to a criminal record.

Hogan said: 'Charlie had to have a serious conversation with me and say that I could end up with a criminal record if I didn't comply.

'It's council regulations which I respect, especially after Charlie explained it to me in his clear and concise way.'

The couple will once again star in a third season of the show which follows their lives on the Diddly Squat Farm alongside Kaleb and Gerald Cooper.

The couple's close bond with their new piglets created the 'saddest moment' in the show so far, as they struggle with animal deaths on the farm.

Opening up about the scenes, Lisa explained: 'It was heart-breaking. Jeremy's always loved pigs, I didn’t think I’d be that enamoured by pigs but I did get really close to them as people will see. Farming’s just sad.'

She continued: 'The animals become your friends and you're isolated – there are certain farms that are really isolated – and the animals become your family. When they become unwell, you're losing members of your animal family.

'If that's how sad we can get in front of a TV crew, imagine the farmers that are alone and having to do it with nobody around them when they’re losing animal after animal. It’s so difficult.

'Every day it's emotional whether it's really happy because the weather is perfect and you can get on with the job at hand or it’s miserable if it’s raining the crops are failing and you can’t do a thing.

'It’s very difficult to be unemotional about it. So, yes, I don’t want to go against what he’s said but I definitely think he’s becoming more a man of the land than a man of the road.'

Clarkson said he was keen to show viewers 'what real farming is' and warned that life as a farmer is much 'dirtier and harder' in real life. 

And scenes of sows firing out their newborns 'like machine guns' being described as 'not for the faint hearted'. 

Clarkson added: 'Farming on television has been portrayed as fresh straw, fluffy lambs, agreeable calves: a bit like Babe. I had it in my head that farming was much dirtier and harder, and I always wanted to show it like it actually is.

'Farming doesn't have many happy endings, as we've discovered. We want to show everybody what real farming is.'

Hogan also revealed that the couple's restaurant does not appear in the new season, as it was forced to close down by the local council, but they have been allowed to keep their gourmet food van to 'cook the meat from our animals'.

In another episode, a wedding proposal is mentioned, leading Hogan to reveal she has hopes of getting engaged to the former Top Gear presenter.

The pair met at a party in 2017, after being set up by mutual friends, and went public with their romance at the British GQ Awards that same year.

Clarkson has been married twice before, first to Alexandra James in 1989, but they split six months later.

He then became engaged to Frances Cain and they were together for more than two decades before separating in 2014.

In that time, they had three children together - daughters Emily and Katya and son Finlo.

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