Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of “Clarkson’s Farm,” has candidly revealed he was quite difficult during his tumultuous teenage years, partly due to his parents’ divorce.
The 26-year-old has since become an integral part of Jeremy Clarkson’s operation at Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
Despite rising to fame on the Amazon Prime hit series, life wasn’t always rosy for Farmer Kaleb. He attributes farming with turning his life around, confessing in a Heat magazine interview that the profession helped him improve as a person post-divorce: “When my mum and dad went through a tricky divorce, mum struggled to pay the rent and I went out to get a job.
“From what I knew about farming, it just appealed to me. I got my first job when I was just 12 and by age 13 I had my own business.
“Farming saved me as a person. I think I’d be horrible if farming didn’t come along, because the divorce wasn’t nice and I became a bit of an a***hole.”
Despite on-screen clashes with the former Top Gear presenter, Kaleb confirms that their friendship extends beyond the show, noting they frequently enjoy pints together and that their disputes are genuine, reports Gloucestershire Live.
He said: “We’re really close. We go for pints all the time. I think when you’re working with a friend you naturally have more arguments.
“I find it funny that people think I’m that good an actor. Nothing is worked up for the cameras.
“The crew will sometimes walk because they can’t be arsed. They’ll go and film the butterflies and we’ll still be arguing.”
In addition to his role on Clarkson’s Farm, Kaleb is launching his new book, ‘It’s A Farming Thing’, which hits the shelves tomorrow (Thursday, October 24). His Prime Video Special, ‘The World According to Kaleb’, will be available to stream from November 29.
Despite three seasons of Clarkson’s Farm, Kaleb confessed that the motoring enthusiast is still ‘useless in terms of anything practical’.
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