It has been one year since Rock legend Brian May offered to help Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host originally purchased the spot, then known as Curdle Hill Farm, in 2008.
It is the main setting and focus for the documentary series Clarkson’s Farm, which has four seasons to date on Prime Video.
Problems arose last summer, though, with a series of serious issues plaguing Mr Clarkson and his team.
The 66-year-old announced in 2025 that a case of Bovine TB had hit Diddly Squat: “Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.”
He then added later: “I should clear this up, really. It’s Bovine TB that we have.
“It doesn’t affect people, just our poor cows.”
Things went from bad to worse with Mr Clarkson then adding that the year’s crop intake would be “catastrophic”.
The former Top Gear presenter said: “It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food.
“If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
In the wake of the problems at the Oxfordshire farm, one famous face offered his help to Mr Clarkson.
Brian May, guitarist of the rock band Queen, reached out to the motoring journalist last August, according to the Daily Express.
The musician’s Save Me Trust has contacted Mr Clarkson following the TB outbreak, despite the pair previously disagreeing about badger culling.
When contacted by the Daily Express, the charity confirmed that Anne Brummer, who, in 2009, alongside Mr May, founded the charity, had been in touch.
