Jeremy Clarkson’s farmhand has certainly raked in a pretty penny over the past 12 months.
Clarkson’s Farm favourite Kaleb Cooper’s staggering earnings from 2025 have reportedly been exposed, with the farmer banking a staggering £1million last year. The 27-year-old entrepreneur, who shot to stardom on the Amazon Prime series, showed great promise from a young age. At the age of 13, he started selling eggs with a dream of saving up to buy his own farm one day.
It’s well known that farms don’t come cheap, but that’s certainly the case in the Cotswolds, where he found fame as Jeremy Clarkson’s cheeky but helpful sidekick. Now, The Sun has revealed the dad-of-three’s eye-watering earnings for 2025.
The outlet claims that he pocketed a staggering £800,000 from his media and TV work, while he added a further £100,000 from the sale of his Cooper Livestock Ltd products, which include top-shelf beef joints.
He also set up his own merchandise store, where fans could buy hoodies and tops designed by the businessman from his K. Cooper Retail Ltd. The new business raked in a hefty £60,000 in profit, with a further £85,000 coming from his farming and contract work, according to accounts filed at Companies House.
Kaleb’s business-savvy mindset was apparent from an early age, with the youngster jumping into the family business in his hometown of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. He recalled: “I think actually the business aspect of farming drew me to it, and then of course the tractors, and then the animals and so on.
“For my 13th birthday, my mum didn’t buy me a new phone or a new Xbox or anything like that, but in fact she bought me three chickens. I started my first company at 13, selling chicken eggs around Chipping Norton with a basket. Within two months of my 13th birthday, I had 450 chickens.”
It comes after the former Top Gear host provided an update on the future of his farming show as changes to the filming schedule are being contemplated. The successful series was set to take a hiatus before production for the sixth instalment of the Amazon Prime series.
However, an unexpected factor could kick-start the production of the upcoming series. Jeremy revealed that the allure of capturing the snowfall could lead to filming kicking off this month. Both he and his co-star Kaleb were scheduled to take a break from shooting, with the doting dad jetting off to Australia while Jeremy shoots his new ITV gameshow, Millionaire Hot Seat.
The 65-year-old motoring journalist explained: “So we just said, ‘Ok, well let’s just actually wrap it…’ and then, I just said, ‘If it snows we’ll start filming again’.” Snow started to cover Oxfordshire at the beginning of the month, with another storm set to strike the UK later this week.
In a conversation with The Sun, Jeremy hinted that despite the fifth series not yet being released, the sixth is guaranteed, and a seventh could be in the works. He confirmed: “We’ll definitely do six”, adding that Amazon is keen for a sixth series and that he has a “good idea” for it. The TV star added that the show would only come to an end “when there are no more ideas” in the tank.
