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Television star Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that every day he is taking his life into his own hands, as he has been risking eating poisonous mushrooms every day.

In his column for The Sun, he said he goes to the field next to his house to collect some eggs for breakfast, which is "carpet in mushrooms".

He penned: "There are 15,000 different types of mushroom in the UK and you can eat all of them. But some of them only once. And that's where things get tricky. Because it's nigh on impossible to tell which ones are fatal and which ones are not.

"So I just chuck them all in a pan at lunchtime and play Russian roulette."

Meanwhile, Jeremy has confessed that certain aspects of running a farm have been an absolute "disaster," revealing he hasn't enjoyed a single normal year since assuming control of Diddly Squat Farm. The presenter endured enormous pressure whilst filming the fourth series of Clarkson's Farm, where he grappled with numerous obstacles surrounding the launch of The Farmer's Dog pub, battling endless bureaucratic barriers and complications. Meanwhile, farm operations have been far from plain sailing throughout the past year.

The fourth instalment of the enormously successful Amazon Prime programme Clarkson's Farm aired earlier this year and showcases several difficulties Jeremy has encountered.

The most recent setback Jeremy was forced to confront arrived when bovine tuberculosis (TB) struck Diddly Squat Farm.

He revealed to Times Radio that a veterinarian had made the heartbreaking discovery.

He later shared on X (previously Twitter), writing: "Bad news from Diddly Squat. We've gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated."

In conversation with The Telegraph, he explained: "We are gifted every year by something. Year one we had Covid in the middle of it. Nobody could have seen that coming.

"Year two, West Oxfordshire Council became a little bit difficult and gave us a really good story beat. They banned me from setting up a restaurant on the farm. Nobody could have seen that one coming.

"Then there was year three, when all the pigs died. Then in year four it simply didn't stop raining. This year it hasn't started. There hasn't been one normal year.

"Sometimes you think, OK, this is an unbelievable disaster, but on the other hand it will amuse the viewers. But it's not like The Grand Tour, where you'd set things up."