Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he spent hours comforting partner Lisa Hogan after a devastating loss, derailing what he had hoped would be a perfect family weekend at home. Writing in The Sunday Times, Clarkson said he had been looking forward to hosting his grandchildren, enjoying warm weather and eating outdoors after forecasts promised sunshine.

Reflecting on the start of the weekend, he wrote: “It was all set to be quite literally the most perfect weekend.” Clarkson said he briefly felt removed from wider political and global concerns as he watched his family enjoying time outside. “I know that as a newspaperman I'm supposed to focus on the various wars and Labour's uselessness and Donald Trump's lunacy and which will inish Britain of irst: the out-of-control immigration or the out-ofcontrol beneits system,” he wrote. But as he sat outside with a drink, watching his granddaughters play in the fields with animals on the farm, he admitted: “the world's problems did seem very far away. I was as happy as I've ever been.”

The mood shifted dramatically after a phone call about one of Hogan’s treasured Valais blacknose sheep, which had developed mastitis and was struggling to feed her lambs.

Clarkson explained the ewe had to be removed from the field alongside her offspring and cared for in a makeshift maternity area inside a barn while being treated with antibiotics.

The unexpected work disrupted the evening, leaving little time to cook and forcing the family to order takeaway food instead.

The following morning, Clarkson said he had planned to take his three-year-old granddaughter to collect eggs from the hens before preparing breakfast using produce from the farm.

Those plans quickly unravelled when he checked on the sheep and realised its condition had worsened overnight.

Describing the severity of the illness, he wrote: “I don't want to spoil your breakfast, but her sickly teat had swollen to the point where it looked like Ron Jeremy's gentleman sausage.”

After a vet arrived, Clarkson said the animal’s mastitis had turned gangrenous and there was no option but euthanasia.

“So we did that and I had to spend the next hour hugging Lisa, who was distraught,” he wrote, adding: “She truly loves her Valais blacknoses.”

Clarkson and Hogan were then left caring for the sheep’s orphaned lambs, bottle-feeding them after the loss of their mother.

He explained that Norman, an orphaned lamb already familiar with bottle feeding after being rejected by his mother, was easy to manage. The newly orphaned lambs, however, resisted because they were still searching for their mother.

“They wanted their mum's milk, but that wasn't possible because she was under a tarpaulin in the corner of the yard, awaiting the arrival of the knackerman,” Clarkson wrote.

The emotional morning also disrupted family mealtimes, with Clarkson admitting the delay meant lunch plans fell apart.

“By the time they stopped wriggling and we got something into their tummies, it was too late to make lunch for the family, so we had some crisps.”

The TV star recently spoke to Heart Breakfast hosts Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden about the upcoming series of his hit reality show Clarkson’s Farm, which documents him running his Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Clarkson said: “It is the most dramatic one of the shows we have done so far.

“It gets more and more dramatic towards the end. Yeah, I’ll say no more than that.”

The programme, which first aired in 2021, brings to light problems which British farmers face and the costs of running a farm.