{"id":1953953,"date":"2025-08-11T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1953953"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:15:26","slug":"brian-may-reaches-out-to-jeremy-clarkson-after-devastating-farm-news-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brian-may-reaches-out-to-jeremy-clarkson-after-devastating-farm-news-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May reaches out to Jeremy Clarkson after ‘devastating’ farm news | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Queen guitarist Brian May’s Save Me Trust have reached out to Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> amidst the bovine TB (bTB) outbreak on his farm despite the pairs feud over a disagreement about badger culling<\/a>. When contacted by Express.co.uk<\/a> the charity confirmed that Anne Brummer, who founded the charity with Brian<\/a> back in 2009, had been in contact with Jeremy<\/a> following his announcement his Cotswolds farm Diddly Squat, which is the subject of his Prime Video<\/a> show Clarkson’s Farm<\/a>, has been afflicted by a TB outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jeremy admitted he was “devastated” by the news his farm had been hit by bTB. On July 31 he posted on X: “Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.”<\/p>\n

Save Me has been investigating the causes of bTB for over a decade, actively researching and advocating for changes in the approach to managing the condition in cattle. They believe the current focus on badger culls is misplaced and that cattle-to-cattle transmission is a more significant factor in the spread of the disease. They have highlighted issues with the current skin test for bTB, claiming it’s not sensitive enough and can miss infected animals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2024 Brian released a BBC<\/a> documentary, Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me in an attempt to change public perception of the issue.<\/p>\n

A controversial badger cull has been in place in the UK for the past 12 years though the government has pledged to end it by 2029.<\/p>\n

Jeremy has made no secret of his disdain for badgers in the past joking on Clarkson’s Farm that they should be “hit on the head with a hammer” to protect his cattle.<\/p>\n

Previously, Jeremy called Brian out in a tweet over a decade ago as he showed the damage badgers had caused to his farm.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Telegraph<\/a> last year Brian said: “I don’t think it’s Jeremy Clarkson<\/a>‘s fault because he doesn’t know, he’s a newcomer to this situation.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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“But he’s been advised by someone who’s telling him that bovine TB can be passed by a cow sniffing a badger’s breath. It’s laughable. But he’s got four million viewers on TV, so unfortunately, people are going to believe it.”<\/p>\n

Despite their opposing views, Brian has no bad blood with the Top Gear host despite the latter’s previous scathing remarks.<\/p>\n

“I would love to have a real heart-to-heart talk with Jeremy Clarkson<\/a>. He has slagged me off, but I don’t really get into that,” he said in the chat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Queen guitarist Brian May’s Save Me Trust have reached out to Jeremy Clarkson amidst the bovine TB (bTB) outbreak on his farm despite the pairs feud over a disagreement about badger culling. When contacted by Express.co.uk the charity confirmed that Anne Brummer, who founded the charity with Brian back in 2009, had been in contact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[23763,32533,323952,328933,342512,86491,267275,263823,340653,312552,83843],"class_list":["post-1953953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-brian-may","tag-brian-may-news","tag-brian-may-save-me","tag-clarkson","tag-clarkson-farm","tag-clarksons-farm","tag-diddly-squat","tag-diddly-squat-farm","tag-jeremy-clarkson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brian-May-reaches-out-to-Jeremy-Clarkson-after-devastating-farm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}