I’m losing weight just like Jeremy Clarkson but for a very different reason, reveals Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper

JEREMY CLARKSON is not the lone antheral connected ­Diddly Squat Farm to alteration his manner for the involvement of his wellness – his TV co-star Kaleb Cooper has besides joined the clean-living revolution.

On Saturday, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? presenter Jeremy told successful The Sun how his caller bosom problems mean helium present has to travel a “holier-than-thou” manner afloat of “seeds and yoga”.

Now it turns retired his farming sidekick Kaleb, 26, has besides slimmed down, by astir a chromatic — though not for health reasons, but pursuing a dream.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun up of the motorboat of his caller book, It’s A Farming Thing, helium tells maine implicit a sheet of oversea bass: “I’m connected a no-sugar thing, and it’s each due to the fact that I had this dream.

“I did and didn’t recognize the dream, but I knew I had to discontinue sugar.

“I went to archer Taya [his ­partner] and she thought I wouldn’t bash it.

“I’m 4 weeks successful now, and I’ve mislaid six kilos, which is beauteous good.

“I bash person the unusual cheat day, but lone sugars that people occur.”

Earlier this month Jeremy, 64, was taken by ambulance to the John ­Radcliffe infirmary successful Oxford, wherever doctors recovered 1 of his coronary arteries was afloat blocked and different astir blocked, meaning helium had to person exigency surgery.

Now, arsenic the broadcaster recuperates astatine his workplace successful the Oxfordshire colony of Chadlington, Kaleb has told connected the radio however they inactive talk astir days, and helium called Jeremy “a fighter”.

He says: “I’m astatine the workplace each day, oregon we’ll substance each time oregon I’ll spell successful for a cupful of beverage each day.

“He’s doing each right, he’s doing good.

“I was determination with him erstwhile it happened and each I tin accidental is he’s decidedly a fighter, he’s a beardown man.

“He went in, helium had the process and he’s doing truly good.”

Kaleb, from adjacent Chipping ­Norton, changeable to fame arsenic a young workplace idiosyncratic who was past promoted to farming manager successful the deed Prime Video bid Clarkson’s Farm successful 2021.

Audiences loved their on-screen bickering, and Kaleb has antecedently revealed that determination is simply a batch much that is not shown.

He told The Sun: “I reckon they astir apt lone amusement 40 per cent of the arguments that we really have.

“But the main happening is that if we person an argument, 10 minutes aboriginal we’re champion friends again.

“We’ll beryllium like, ‘Do you privation a cupful of tea? Do you privation to spell to the pub? Do you privation to spell for a meal?’

“And that’s what makes a bully relationship, I believe.”

Appearing successful the Prime Video amusement was a blessed mishap for Kaleb, but it has propelled him into the ­spotlight, and during our chat, 3 radical separately travel up to accidental hullo and person a chat.

While helium loves gathering fans, helium has had a mates of bizarre incidents, with 1 admirer getting Kaleb’s ­signature tattooed connected his limb and ­several others spotting him portion they were driving, and astir crashing their cars successful surprise.

And 1 pistillate surely made an effort to drawback the farmer’s attention.

He says: “I was driving a tractor conscionable extracurricular Chippy [Chipping Norton] and I had travel to a halt and this pistillate showed maine her boobs.

“I was conscionable 24 and everything stayed south-facing, contempt what I had conscionable seen, which showed I was maturing.

“But I got retired to instrumentality immoderate photos with immoderate kids and she came implicit to inquire for a photograph and proudly said, ‘I showed you my boobs’.

“I did airs with her and past she pointed retired her hubby taking the photo.

“I deliberation I awkwardly said thing like, ‘Nice one’ to him.

“It was conscionable bizarre.”

Now Kaleb is preparing for his wedding to Taya, who is the parent of his 2 children.

He says: “She wants to spell to the Bahamas oregon ­somewhere similar that for her imagination honeymoon.

“I did effort to suggest that we went to Cornwall, but she was like, ‘I’m not going to f***ing Cornwall truthful you tin spell sportfishing astatine 3am oregon something’.

“Taya has said she likes the thought of swimming with pigs connected the beach.

“I’ve told her we could bash that present with ours, but she’s not having it.

“I’m not truly a bully swimmer.

“I’m not designed for it — I don’t person gills.”

Honeymooning successful the Bahamas would mean Kaleb’s archetypal travel retired of the UK, involving a ten-hour flight, positive a stop-off — each of which sounds hellish to the young farmer.

While helium has been successful a chopper arsenic a day contiguous from Jeremy, which was shown connected Clarkson’s Farm, helium was not a instrumentality of that either, lamenting: “I didn’t person a f***ing prime for that one.”

And it seems helium doesn’t person a prime implicit his honeymoon either, if helium wants to support his woman happy.

But his main fearfulness astir going overseas is not knowing anyone.

Kaleb says: “I similar Chippy due to the fact that I cognize radical and however everything works.

‘Accidents happen’

“If my car breaks down, I cognize who to spell to, oregon if I request much feed, I cognize who does that.

“But if I spell abroad, I don’t cognize anything.

“It scares the s*** retired of me.”

While it would beryllium his archetypal and, probably, past travel connected a plane, Kaleb inactive needs to benignant retired his all- important passport.

He jokes: “All my cows person a passport, and I don’t.

“Every cattle has 1 from soon aft it’s born, and I don’t.

“I drove 14 hours up into Scotland to get a ferry crossed for my shows successful Ireland.

“I thought I would hatred Ireland, but I loved it.

“I felt astatine home.

“It’s conscionable afloat of farmers.

“I got to person a half-hour chat with 1 feline astir his hydraulic rams.

“Loved it.”

Kaleb’s caller value nonaccomplishment has astir apt been helped by him ­running astir aft children Oscar, three, and 16- month-old Willa.

He has branded them feral workplace kids, and Oscar is surely managing to origin chaos.

After terrorising pigs by jumping connected their backs, and gathering up his immune strategy by licking fences, the toddler’s latest instrumentality is smashing the TV.

Kaleb says: “The archetypal clip was an accident, I think.

“He was playing with Taya and deed the TV with a distant power happening and it smashed.

“Accidents happen, truthful we conscionable replaced it.

“The adjacent time, he’d been helping maine successful the kitchen, tenderising steak with a small hammer.

“He wandered off, and I recovered him successful the surviving room.

“I kid you not, helium looked astatine me, looked astatine the TV, past did it again and connected his 2nd look astatine the TV helium smashed it.

“You can’t outcry astatine kids, due to the fact that they won’t understand, but I had different mode to marque him ­understand what helium had done was bad.

‘He’s learning’

“I sat him connected my lap, got retired the slope app and showed him arsenic I moved money from his relationship into excavation to wage for a replacement.

“As I did it, helium went, ‘Owe’, truthful helium understood.

“He did it again a 3rd time, truthful I did the aforesaid thing.

“He’s not done it since, but helium present has nary wealth successful the account.

“He’s learning.”

It’s nary astonishment that Kaleb has ­perfected his teaching technique, arsenic helium has spent the past fewer years ­showing Jeremy however to farm.

And things are astir to get much intense, present that the petrolhead Sun columnist volition nary longer beryllium hosting his Amazon show, The Grand Tour.

Kaleb says: “I deliberation he’s affectional due to the fact that that amusement was his baby, but he’s acceptable to instrumentality a measurement backmost and bash much connected the farm.”

He adjacent acknowledges that the brace truly are friends and walk tons of clip together, but helium would inactive alternatively enactment with Jeremy’s spouse Lisa Hogan.

He says: “Jeremy and I are truly bully friends and person the aforesaid humour, but Lisa is conscionable overmuch much applicable and easier to enactment with.”

Beaming astatine me, helium is speedy to add: “I bash emotion Jeremy though.”

•  It’s A Farming Thing, by Kaleb Cooper, is retired present successful hardback (Quercus, £20, ebook & audio).