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Saw an article where Caleb is keen to leave the farm. Idk if it’s garbage or not.
I hope it’s not true, he is a mainstay. He has experience and he is funny. Jeremy relies on him. It said he wanted to own his own block of farmland but again I didn’t read it properly as I saw it while traveling and got car sick and then couldn’t find it again.
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Yes he wants his own farm but he's only 25. I'd imagine by the time clarksons farm ends he'll have enough cash to go for it.
And when he was 21 he was fattening up few pigs a year and selling all his chicken eggs locally. 🥺
Well, it all adds up in the end. I did all kinds of crazy side job shit to have a down parent for my first house...granted a farm is probably about 100 times more expensive than my first house was but I bet he's making some coin on the show.
I hope it happens, he truly deserves it.
Indeed he does. Especially putting up with jezza day in and day out. Lol
When Clarkson retires, I would totally watch Calebs' Farm.
A farm the size of clarksons in that area is probably 20 millions these days
You really think so? I don't know anything about UK prices but 1000 farm acres in the states would run about 5 million or less.
I too want a down parent.
Best comment.
You have just got coffee and tea and get the parents down
I would not be surprised by the time they decide to stop the series Jeremy hands it over to Kaleb to manage . Not the same as owning it but it's the closest
It's not unreasonable for him to want to farm his own land on his own terms instead of being a hired hand on other farms, and he's been growing his businesses more and more.
Yeah but if he sticks it out 5-10 years he gets more experience on Jeremy’s dime and likely sets himself up for the rest of his life. He’s young. It would be foolish.
I wouldn't be shocked if Jeremy helps set him up in the future too be honest. He may very well have started already. Whether it's his farm or a different one nearby. His kids aren't going to take over, and he's in his mid-60s already. So I can see some sort of succession plan being in place.
This might've been the reason he made Caleb the farm manager this season. Give him experience with more of the farm from a financial aspect while also having the safety net of it being Clarkson's dime. I can see Clarkson selling a majority of the land to Caleb and just keeping the land the house is on and a few acres to fuck about in.
Clarkson has to hold the land until he dies because it's a tax shelter from inheritance taxes in the UK. No taxes paid on farmland whatsoever.
He could simply come to an agreement with Kaleb where he rents him the land in perpetuity until his passing and then Clarkson's kids sell whatever pieces he wants to him
Jeremy might want to help Caleb, but 1000 acres in the cotswolds 6km from chipping Norton is a rich persons paradise. That farm is probably worth 10-15 million GBP. That's the money side they don't show, but I bet if the property was mortgaged it would be something like 500, 700k GBP/year in interest costs plus whatever he pays in property tax.
That said, Caleb would be well positioned to buy something more reasonably sized or somewhere else, or keep managing the place for the next rich guy.
The sheer impossibility of farm land ever paying for its own purchase within the working life of the person who’s bought it is an almost insurmountable barrier to entry small farmers where I’m from (Southern Ontario, Canada).
It wouldn’t shock me if that’s addressed on the show eventually. The economics in the UK are obviously the same.
Clarkson is likely making 200 million from Clarksons farm.
Caleb is getting shafted if it's making less than 5% of that.
I feel like this is the case, if Jermey kids was interested, they would be on the show by now
He said keeping it means it gets passed down without inheritance tax or something?
They can be interested in the farming without wanting to appear on the show tbf. Its very possible they help out off camera.
Wasn't his nephew doing work experience in season 3 ?
They have their own careers and lives.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be shocked if Kaleb gets left Diddly Squat in Jezza’s will.
I would, it’s the reason he set up the farm to avoid IHT on property and land.
There is no way on earth he’s leaving a 7+ figure asset to someone outside the family
I'd be fuming if I was Jeremy's kids!
He's already got plenty of experience. He'd probably still show up for the show and hire someone for his own farm for days were he's filming
Hasn’t he already been doing it his whole life? I don’t think experience will be much of an issue.
Disagree. He has enough experience already and if he starts for himself he has full controll and can chase his own profits/dreams.
Staying with Jeremy is great if he wants to stay in tv. If he doesnt want to keep doing that then it makes a lot of sense to start his own farm (especially if he has the oppertunity to buy his own piece of farm, you never know when that oppertunity comes around again).
For most people who grew up in his position with his career path their dream would be to own and run their own farm, make them chose between that and be a tv star and the decision to quit tv would be pretty quick. Farming has a weird pull that only farmers can really understand
i completely understand but farming from a position of wealth and bootstrapping it are wildly different experiences.
Not everything ks about money.
I would imagine that it has been his number 1 goal since before he left school.
Surely this all ends with Jeremy handing the farm over to Kaleb and the series continuing as 'Kaleb's Farm'.
With TGT ending and Clarkson reaching his mid 60s he might be thinking about what he wants to do with his retirement years.
Not a chance. The farm is a significant portion of Clarkson's personal estate. It's not a set for Amazon to reassign. And Clarkson has kids and grandkids.
There’s so many sensationalist garbage articles about Clarkson’s farm that it’s not worth listening to all that.
How many articles have we seen about the show being canceled or any number of other things.
If Caleb leaves, it would be a stupid business decision, but probably good for him personally.
Well, to be fair, the cancellation thing was real at one point - the show was originally only commissioned for a 3 series initial run, but then Jeremy went & wrote a deplorable & ill advised op-ed in The Sun attacking the Duke of Sussex and his wife, which he was forced to make public and private apologies for.
When this all kicked off, Amazon made a public statement that they would refuse to work with him any more once his current projects were finished.
There have obviously been discussions behind the scene to smooth over everything, which seems to have extended to (at least) one further season on the farm, but it's all likely contingent on Jeremy not exposing his arse in public to the degree he did.
Not sure what Amazon said exactly, but no way were they going to cut Clarkson’s Farm loose. It’s a huge, huge hit for them. Amazon said like, one little thing about the op-ed, and shut up quick.
This exactly.
Clarkson’s Farm is relatively cheap to produce and is one of APV’s biggest hits.
When you’ve got absolute albatrosses like the bad LOTR fanfic ($1B+ to produce, and a critical and commercial bomb) and it’s ilk… I’m sure they are in no rush to ditch Clarkson’s farm over what he said about some British nobility. (Hardly anyone in the US - APV’s biggest market - has much awareness of that stuff anyhow, so you can just say your platitudes and sweep it under the rug.)
This was the long and short of it last year - https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-amazon-grand-tour-canceled-1235490701/
Meaning it was only commisend for 3 series would not mean canelation afther those 3. Just not renuwed.
Canceld means that if the conmisend series are stopt.
Semantics. The entire Clarkson brand became temporarily poisonous. It was a big enough faux pas for Amazon to issue their statement & Clarkson to have to publicly walk things back, something he had rarely done in the past.
A very popular thing 'not being renewed' is effectively cancellation, even if it's done in a roundabout fashion or under some woolly PR to make it sound like the natural end of the line.
No they didn't. Amazon refused to comment on the situation and weeks after it Clarkson said that these rumors were false and he and Amazon were perfectly fine.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that Amazon made a public statement saying they were through with Clarkson, but it's not something that happened in reality.
I just read the whole thing and wow Jeremy was seething the whole time lol. I hate the woman too but why would you give so much shit about someone totally unrelated to you?
Ultimately, I think it was because he was paid to. The Sun pays all their talking heads very handsomely to write politically and ideologically motivated nonsense for them just to fill the pages, even if their opinions can wax and wane with the moon.
I just get the impression - at the time - he did not think he'd get the sort of blow back he did.
I'm paraphrasing, but Richard Porter said on his podcast after the event that Jeremy is a bit of a dick who doesn't think things through enough of the time - it's ultimately become his brand - but that he needs to own what he said (which he ultimately did with his apologies). Personally, I think it was his daughter's response that probably hurt him most, as it was very much a 'I'm not angry, just very disappointed' type of response!
Let’s say it’s true and he does leave the farm to start his own, it doesn’t mean he leaves the show. Look at Charlie, he works for multiple farmers yet he’s in every episode. If it did come to this, the show would sprawl out a bit, and cover both farms, I guarantee it. They would keep the same ‘cast’ ie vet across both farms and feature both, putting Clarkson together with Caleb at any opportunity.
But it’s probably not even true. It must be clear to Caleb that remaining with Clarkson is sensible and lucrative.
He did say his dream was to own his own land, it's probably just tabloidism taking it and running with it.
Kaleb also works number of other farms. He mentioned working other fields multiple times.
Oh it is absolutely true. There is absolutely zero chance a farmer like him doesn’t want to own his own farm.
He's always wanted his own farm but can't afford it.
Few more seasons of CF and he will
No chance they pay that much
It's one of Amazon's big hits. They definitely pay that much
He's doing well for himself but not buying massive farms in the Cotswolds well for himself
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12933215/Clarksons-Farm-star-Kaleb-Coopers-earnings-double-thanks-newfound-fame-putting-Jeremy-Clarkson-hit-Amazon-Prime-show.html
They definitely should pay that much.
He even has his own production company now, i heard
The farm programme isn't going to be s top gear endeavour of 20 years. Lad needs to think what happens when it's done and what makes him happy. He likes farming, why not set up his own farm?
I watched an interview with Kaleb and Jeremy where Kaleb says that he was offered some work (didn't say what), that would have paid enough for him to buy the farm he's always wanted, but Jeremy advised him against taking the sort of piecemeal work and opportunities that he's being offered off the back of this show and instead invest in a longer career which will pay dividends in the future.
Jeremy said that he's known many people to get a bit of TV work, open a few shopping centres, then disappear back into obscurity. He said you have to be more discerning if you want longevity and stick to what you know, farming. And write books/ make TV programmes about that.
So it sounds like Kaleb has taken Jeremy's advice and turned down lots of quick money. I think he's written a book though. Here's the interview
Didn't Clarkson say while narrating a few episodes "Kaleb had to tend to his own farm". Thought he already owned one in addition to being a farm hand/manager & consulting
Maybe, but Kaleb does not own a full farm. He has his contracting company (which work other farms too) and has few animals.
Yeah, maybe not a 1000 acre one, but bet he already has a small one. Doubt him, Gerald, or Charlie are commuting from the suburbs.
Farm and countryside house/home is not a same thing. But I guess how you define farm I guess. If a house, garden, chicken coop and pig pen makes a farm, then Kaleb absolutely has one. Geralt probably too, even if his primary business is specialized construction.
Charlie IIRC isn't a local.
He said he wants to own his own farm one day - which is an entirely reasonable aspiration for a farm worker. Doesn’t sound like it’s in the near future though, more of a long term dream.
If he spends long enough at diddly squat you never know he might strike a deal with Clarkson to buy it, or the arable part of it anyway maybe .
UNBELIEVABLE CONFESSION FROM CLARKSON'S FARM STAR
Did the article preface with this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon funds a new small farm for him and spins off a new series if he did leave.
*Kaleb
I dont get how people still not understand this and write calab...
The show wouldn't be the same without farming Stig. He laps up the part very well.
I can’t imagine any of his children want to farm the land I could see clarkson “gifting” caleb the farmable land when he gets to old too.
Nothing to do with the children wanting to farm the land. Farms are exempt from inheritance tax, Clarkson freely admits that’s why he got the farm in the first place.
Not seeing the same artifice referenced I have to presume this is in line with what he has said a few times before on the show.
He’s a hard working kid and has goals to own his own farm. And even with all the bright and shiny attention that’s come from this show he’s stayed true to who he is and his goals it seems.
no way he would leave Jeremy. remember seeing his cars in the first season? hes a longtime fan of jeremy and top gear
It"s good money
Show me a farmer that will let go good money.
edit
I just now saw a piece on The Daily Mail from January claiming that Kaleb started his own little production company that the show's film company pays him through and - for his appearance and work in Season 3 he apparently cleared £ 242,000 ! Good on him! But, as I point out below, he should ride this rocket until it fizzles. He can't make this kind of money solo farming a small plot. If the show goes 2 or 3 more seasons, he should stay 2 or 3 more seasons and bank every penny that he can.
If he were smart, he'd get an agent and negotiate a fee for future seasons of the show. Jeremy got £200 million (~$255 USD) for the series from Amazon. Kaleb at this point is practically a supporting character on a "show."
Something reasonable for a hit TV series, like £250,000 per season. He can't make that farming - he can't make a fraction of that farming. He should stay with Jeremy until the show runs its course and save every single penny. He's very young, only 25.
... then buy land somewhere and start his farm, at 28,29, 30 with 40 years of working road still in front of him.
he would like to have his own farm, for which the show is a great additional income, put that through the UK tabloid filter and you have your article
Quite standard for him to want his own plot, he’d make a good farmer and I’m sure Jeremy would do everything to make sure he’s got every opportunity
Maybe we'll be watching Kalebs farm when Clarkson's farm ends
He’s all about earning money, he’ll see the show through to the end cause it earns more than he would farming
Don't know if he's leaving the show but he did mention he wants to own he's own land one day which could possibly mean he won't be in the show anymore.
What you doin!!!!! Faaaaa!
I hope it is true, probably won't dent his screen time too much
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. He has been down to earth and earned every bit of success he has gotten.
He is not our circus-animal we can put in a cage as we see fit.
Whether he wants to move on or not, this show has been so sincere it puts other shows to shame, and I absolutely trust he will make the right choice, whatever that is.
I think people are watching this through rose tinted glasses. Kaleb could just as easily quit and find his own place. Land is extremely valuable.
It's like Jeremy just saying he's giving 20m away
There are 17 other workers I think. What about them? Crazy. Lisa has as much right to it as Kaleb sure.
It seems I'm in the minority though .
Why should he stay? That would be accepting mediocrity by being in a comfort zone, just for the sake of a TV show.
The guys intelligent, business savvy and has an absolute passion to back up his skills and knowledge.
I’m a fan of the show but I’d absolutely want him to go on and advance himself. Even if I were in Clarkson’s shoes.