Jeremy Clarkson put a huge offer on the table for darts player Luke Littler if he manages to win at the PDC World Darts Championship final tonight.
The former Top Gear host, 63, didn’t hesitate to higher the stakes and offered the young champion a massive reward, if he takes home the trophy and the £500,000 prize.
Luke, 16, is the youngest darts player ever to reach the World Darts Championship final in history.
He will be battling it all out in a historical match against Luke Humphries at London’s Alexandra Palace, after knocking off Rob Cross in the semi-final.
Taking to X, Jeremy presented his offer: ‘This may turn out to be expensive but if Luke Littler wins tonight, I’ll give him enough of our brand new 0.3 percent Hawkstone Spa lager to last till he’s 18.’
It comes after Jeremy realised that the land on his Diddly Squat farm could yield malting barley of unexpectedly high quality, making it quite ideal for brewing.
The Grand Tour favourite revealed he and his partner Lisa Hogan experienced heartbreak on their farm just before Christmas.
The TV presenter revealed that his wife’s horse tragically passed away last week in his column for The Times.
Keeping his followers up to date during the Christmas holidays, he shared that he was enjoying the festive season on his Oxfordshire farm – Diddly Squat – with his new granddaughter.
But it hasn’t been a completely joyous time for the presenter or his family as Lisa’s much adored horse, Bertie, 26, has died.
Elaborating on the upsetting news, he penned: ‘It wasn’t a fun event, even for me, and I didn’t like it one bit.’
‘When Lisa’s horse died, I was upset because I could see she was. And because I would have to deal with it.’
The pair first realised that everything was not fine, when they received word that Bertie was ‘lying on his side, in a stream’.
Sadly, when Jeremy managed to get to the horse, Bertie had already passed away.
The columnist also predicted that Bertie’s passing may not be the only unfortunate event during the festive holidays.
He quipped: ‘At least with all this unpleasantness out of the way, we won’t have to face it tomorrow, which will free up some time for some other unpleasantness.’
Jeremy sarcastically wrote that a cow may get hit by a car, a sheep may self-combust or – pehaps more likely – a fox will crawl its way into the henhouse once again.
The tragic news comes after it was announced a fourth season of Jeremy’s Amazon show Clarkson’s Farm is set to launch a fourth season.
Jeremy’s show has been a ratings phenomenon for Amazon and something of a business boom for the Grand Tour star.
Originally launching in 2021, the show – which also brought straight-talking Cotswold farmer Kaleb Cooper to prominence – has documented Clarkson’s attempts to transform his huge 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm into a working business complete with a farm shop and his Hawkstone organic beer brand.
The broadcaster shared the news via his social media, the day following his departure from The Grand Tour.
In celebration of the fourth season, Kaleb and Jeremy attempt to gather the sheep in an attempt to spell four in Roman Numerals.
But, it does not go to plan as the pair end up quarrelling as they struggle to gather the sheep accordingly.
Jeremy shouted at Kaleb: ‘You’re doing it in the wrong place. You blithering idiot!’
His co-star accidentally placed the food in the wrong area, meaning the ‘I’ was on the wrong side – spelling six instead of four.
Jeremy elaborated: ‘I’m trying to say four… I wanted to write “IV”, a four, to announce that the fourth series of Clarkson’s Farm is coming,’
Although, it took some time to get their the farming pair were able to convey their message with the sheep thanks to some helpful camera tricks.
Olivia Martin is a dedicated sports journalist based in the UK. With a passion for various athletic disciplines, she covers everything from major league championships to local sports events, delivering up-to-the-minute updates and in-depth analysis.
