Richard Ham is alive and well, thank goodness
The biggest mystery on Clarkson’s Farm season 5 — the whereabouts of beloved pig Richard Ham — has finally been solved.
While Jeremy has had pigs on his farm Diddly Squat since the first season of the hit Prime Video series, Richard Ham, named after Top Gear colleague Richard Hammond, was introduced in season 4.
With the first four episodes of season 5 airing last week, fans quickly became concerned that Richard Ham was nowhere to be seen. This was made worse by the fact that Jeremy decided to sell off all of his remaining pigs at the end of season 5 episode 4.
After his butcher revealed that Diddly Squat was making a loss through their pork farming, the end of the episode saw him making his emotional goodbyes to seemingly all the pigs left on the farm. While it was implied that the youngest were sent to an abattoir, the two mother pigs, Clumsy and Swizz, were rehomed at a nearby educational centre.
But where did this leave Richard Ham? Clarkson’s Farm season 5 episode 5 finally reveals that he is alive and well… and has a brand-new connection to Jeremy’s Top Gear past.
Clarkson’s Farm season 5 reveals Richard Ham lives at Diddly Squat with new Top Gear pig James Boar
At the halfway point of Clarkson’s Farm season 5 episode 5, Jeremy remarks how quiet the bottom of the fields are now that the pigs have all been sold off. But all has not been lost, as Richard Ham is now the lone pig resident of Diddly Squat… or so it seems.
“I couldn’t let him go,” Jeremy tells the camera. “He can’t be a Fluffer anymore, because there’s no pigs to fluff. He can’t be eaten, because… well, we just can’t.
“And we can’t breed him, so he’s just going to live here. But you can’t leave one pig by himself,” he adds.
This is where we cut to a separate enclosure behind him, revealing that another pig is now slowly being integrated into Richard Ham’s space.
“So we’ve got another boy pig, so Richard Ham can have a friend. And who is Richard Hammond’s best friend?” Jeremy continues.
“I can’t have a pig called James May,” he says to partner Lisa. “What about James Boar?” he adds as the pair burst into laughter.
In their Top Gear heyday, James May was given the nickname of ‘Captain Boring’ thanks to his signature style of explaining minute details in a very long-winded way. So James Bore = James Boar… you can see the obvious pun.
While Jeremy seems very happy with himself and his new pig name, we’re yet to see how well Richard Ham and James Boar get on together. With two episodes of season 5 yet to be released, it’s currently unconfirmed if the pigs will appear in them.
