Top News

A star from Clarkson's Farm has made an unexpected reappearance in an update from Lisa Hogan. The partner of Jeremy Clarkson, who appears in the Prime Video series besides him, shared that a fan-favourite from the farming show is looking much different.

Posting to The Diddly Squat Farm Instagram account, Lisa gave viewers a sweet update on Richard Ham, Jeremy Clarkson's micro-pig, who had been introduced to fans on the programme during the latest series. The sweet little piglet was affectionately named after Clarkson's former Top Gear co-star Richard Hammond, who took a trip to the Oxfordshire farm for the programme. But since the series aired, the pig has changed massively - doubling in size. The video clip, which showed the pig sniffing and snorting around, had a caption attached which read: "Look who it is!!! It's Richard 'porker' Ham."

Lisa's voice could be heard, while she stayed behind the camera, as she expressed her own surprise at the size of the farm animal. She said: "Who recognises this beast? It's Richard Ham. He's huge!"

Offering an explanation for the pig's rapid growth, she continued: "Yes, it's because you've been hand-fed for all of those months."

Fans were delighted with the cute update, but some were worried about the pig's future as they made the same demand. They protested that Jeremy and Lisa should keep the pig and not sell it off for meat.

One person said: "Yayy! I'm so glad Richard Ham is still with you, keep him forever!" Another added: "Oh Hurrah! Richard Ham is still around - please keep him or let him go to a petting farm, where he can live a happy life."

Someone else begged: "He's gorgeous.... Please don't send me off to the meat packers..... please, please, please keep him... I'm not a veggie either but I do love him."

"Can you keep Richard Ham rather than send him off? He looks really well and large," another pleaded, while noting how well the pig looked.

Jeremy previously revealed that he would be keeping the pig at the farm in order for it to make friends with the female pigs he owned - giving it the role of womaniser as he likened the pig to Playboy boss Hugh Hefner, hoping Richard was able to get the next lot of female pigs "in the mood".

On the series, he said: "The problem is, if he goes on the lorry, he's killed and all we get in return is chipolata and a pork chop the size of a walnut. If he stays here, we've got to feed him for no reason. And that's not farming.

"But the next lot of sows, we're going to use artificial insemination on them, to make them pregnant. But we can't do that until they get in heat and they won't get in heat unless there's man pig nearby.

"So why don't we keep him as the farm's man pig, to get the ladies in the mood? Good old Richard Ham - you could be Hugh Hefner now!"