Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper’s earnings double thanks to his newfound fame putting up with Jeremy Clarkson on hit Amazon Prime show
Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper has become one of TV’s richest reality stars after putting up with Jeremy Clarkson, who he calls a ‘f***ing idiot’ on the hit show.
Cooper, 25, has seen his earnings DOUBLE thanks to his new found fame on Prime Video’s hit series that has followed the former Top Gear presenter’s often disastrous attempts to run his 1,000-acre farm.
Earnings for Kaleb were published by Companies House on Thursday.
Net assets for his company, Kaleb Cooper Productions, have soared to £242,000 from £122,000 for the year ending 30th June 2023 whilst his contracting business has also seen profits soar thanks to his TV fame.
Also reporting this week was his company, Kaleb Cooper Contracting, which has nearly doubled assets to £96,000 from £52,000. Combined, his net assets now stand at £338,000 for the year ending 30th June 2023 compared to £174,000 for the previous year.
The incredible rise means he may be close to achieving the dream which he is saving up for, which is having his own farm. He has done a theatre tour and written two bestselling books, with the first one being, according to him, the first book he had ever read.
His sparky relationship with Clarkson on the show has proved wildly entertaining and turned the young farmer into something of a celebrity, although Clarkson has referred to him as a ‘rural half-wit’ .
Cooper told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine in October: ‘We’re really good friends. We go to the pub. We go to concerts. He took me to my first ever Who concert the other day.’
Of their arguments he added: ‘We argue and then we won’t talk for two days, but after that we’re fine. Someone says, “Do you want a cup of tea?” We never get offended really and we don’t bear grudges. He takes everything on the chin.’
The show started four years ago and the Prime Video series is one of the most-watched on the platform. It follows the former Top Gear presenter’s often disastrous attempts to run his farm in the Cotswolds.
Cooper worked for the farm’s previous manager before Jeremy took over operations in 2019.
His deadpan gags and witty observations have included calling sheep ‘suicidal morons’ and saying: ‘There are two types of farming, unless you count whatever it is Jeremy thinks he’s doing’.
The World According To Kaleb was an immediate bestseller, and he followed it with Britain According to Kaleb: The Wonderful World of Country Life.
There were rumours that Prime Video wouldn’t recommission the show in the wake of the widely criticised newspaper column Clarkson wrote about Meghan Markle last December. However I confirmed last year that it will return for a fourth series in 2025.
Cooper says that Clarkson is good at pig farming and this will form the backbone of the new series, which is set to broadcast this spring.
Cooper has set up a bursary with the Royal Agricultural University for those looking to begin a career in agriculture and ultimately wants to be a landowner. He said: ‘My dream is to buy my own farm’, he says. ‘So everything goes towards that. I want to wake up in the morning and say, “I’m going to plant wheat in that field, because it’s my farm.”‘ He has children Oscar, two and Willa, seven months, with partner Taya.
