Clarkson’s Farm’s Kaleb Cooper shares update after sparking concern over ‘scary’ accident
The farmer and TV star, who appears in the Amazon Prime Video series alongside Jeremy Clarkson as he guides him through running his Oxfordshire Diddly Squat farm, took to Instagram with horrifying snaps yesterday.
In the first, Kaleb, 26, was sitting behind the wheel of the tractor and showed the glass with a giant hole in the middle and smashed all around him.
‘F**k that’s scary,’ he wrote.
A second picture showed the true extent of the damage, as he revealed the tractor from the outside, now completely exposed to the elements.
He’s now shared an update on Instagram, telling fans: ‘I’m absolutely fine about the window, what happened was I was trotting along, visualising success, and then ‘bang’, it just went ‘boom’ and decided it no longer wanted to be attached to the tractor.’
He added his shock at now having to fork out £2,000 for a new one next week.
Dad-of-two Kaleb has faced similar incidents before.
According to The Express, a season one episode of Clarkson’s Farm, which first aired in 2021, saw Kaleb get into his digger and shut the door, with Clarkson narrating: ‘After the 60 frackers had finished, Kaleb went off to have an accident.’
The glass shattered after he entered the door, with Top Gear star Clarkson shouting after him: ‘You dingleberry!’
Clarkson, 64, laughed it off, with Kaleb gasping: ‘What the f**k?’
‘Did anyone else just see that?’ he added, with Clarkson replying: ‘Well, we heard it.’
Kaleb has elsewhere previously spoken about other dangerous encounters he’s had after beginning to work on the Chipping Norton farm as a teenager before later being employed by Clarkson, eventually calling himself the real boss.
In his book It’s A Farming Thing, Kaleb revealed he once risked ‘being blinded’ by a ‘poisonous fur-flinging spider’, and that he elsewhere was whacked in his ‘delicate parts’ by a naughty goose that ‘almost ended my family line’.
Kaleb became a beloved TV star after joining Clarkson on the farm, and rose to fame through teaching The Grand Tour presenter as he embarked on the unexpected journey of taking over the day-to-day running of his Cotswolds farm, which now boasts a shop and pub.
Speaking to The Times in 2022, Kaleb said that despite Clarkson referring to him as a ‘tractor driver’, he’s far more.
He said: ‘He referred to me as a tractor driver. That’s f***ing shit – I’m a farm manager.
‘I’m the boss. It’s Kaleb’s Farm, secretly.’
