Jeremy Clarkson stops the cameras and takes first break from TV filming in 40 years

The 65-year-old TV presenter has revealed he has decided to pause filming his Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in order to take some time off but admitted he is “frightened” about the break.

He told The Sun: “I’m genuinely frightened because until March, I won’t be filming a TV show for the first time in forty years. That will be three months of s***.”

Jeremy also spoke about how taking too much on last year – including trying to juggle the opening of his new pub The Farmer’s Dog and doing the harvest on his farm - led to him being hospitalised.

He explained: “And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem, when you see how stressful it was trying to do those two things – there’s simply no sleep.

“I was coming back knackered from a day trying to get the pub open, and having to get straight into the tractor to do grain carting through the night.

“You can’t make the harvest wait, if it’s dry, ready and fit, as they say in farming I’ve discovered, if the wheat and barley fit you’ve got to get out there. God it was knackering.”

While filming has paused on Clarkson’s Farm, Diddly Squat Farm – where it takes place – continues to operate as normal. He said: “Filming at Diddly Squat has stopped for a little while, but the farming goes on. Today, I have rented out a pig for sexual purposes.”