Step aside, Kaleb Cooper: Clarkson’s Farm has a new star who’s taking the show by storm.
In season five of the hit Prime Video series, Jeremy Clarkson is faced with yet more obstacles as he tries to run Diddly Squat, his 1,000-acre holding in Oxfordshire, and its accompanying pub, The Farmer’s Dog.
After fans embraced the arrival of Harriet Cowan in season four, who was farm manager Cooper’s temporary replacement, the new season has now introduced another person who viewers will undoubtedly love – Charlotte Kingham.
open image in galleryKingham, 22, is the head butcher at Hops and Chops, a food supplier for Clarkson’s boozer and she’s now made the jump to small screen, having previously taken centre stage in several posts on the butcher’s Instagram pages.
Her first scene was a doozy. After Clarkson ran through the many obstacles posed by customers, including the theft of 400 pint glasses a week, Kingham shared her own personal issue: that people keep saying she looks like Cooper.
”You moaned, with some justification, that customers were saying you looked like Kaleb,” Clarkson said, with Charlotte explaining: “There was a comment that I was Kaleb after transition.” A concerned Clarkson added: “See? This is what I have to put up with as landlord.”
Kingham, who is a rugby player for Cheltenham Tigers RFC, recently shared a video celebrating Britain’s Got Talent winners The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir, which was put together by Clarkson.
“A massive congratulations to @thehawkstonefarmerschoir – you have done the nation proud and the whole of the British Agricultural sector!” she wrote on Instagram, where she also revealed she’d won £2,000 after putting a bet on them to win.
Kingham also shared an end-of-season update about her rugby career, revealing that things had come to “an abrupt stop” after she broke her ankle and went through six months of “rehab, hard work and a lot of patience”.
She returned to the field in February and scored her first try. “Grateful for everyone who supported me through the tough moments and happy to be back doing what I love,” she wrote.
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open image in galleryElsewhere in Clarkson’s Farm season five, Kingham helps Clarkson when he’s struggling to put a bonfire together.
The TV star ends up burning an effigy of Keir Starmer after Labour’s proposed 20 per cent inheritance tax hikes, which Clarkson previously said could be “the end” for farmers.
Last year saw the arrival of Harriet Cowan, who was drafted in when Clarkson was left without a farm manager while Cooper toured his one-man show.
Cowan won the hearts of viewers – but viewers couldn’t help but notice Cooper appeared rather unimpressed with Cowan upon their introduction when he returned to the Oxfordshire location.
Jeremy Clarkson himself pointed out that Cooper needed to be kind to Cowan, telling him: “Right, now, that’s Harriet. Now be nice – behave.”
open image in galleryCooper then stood watching Cowan in silence as she worked, sarcastically questioning her farming skills, with Clarkson chiding him for his attitude.
However, Cowan and Cooper became friends away from the cameras, with Cowan stating: “Kaleb’s amazing. Me and him are so close now. He’s such a good farmer and we got on really well.”