Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat is locked down for two months after an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

The 56-year-old presenter called the closure “absolutely dreadful” – adding his farm was “sort of paralysed”.

All animals that test positive for bTB are culled.

Clarkson said, “it’s the law”.

Speaking on Times Radio about the bTB on his farm, he added:

“It’s awful, it is awful.

“You have a test every few months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it’s a hypothetical threat.

“Then the vet looks up as he did yesterday lunchtime and said, ‘I’m really sorry this one’s failed’.

“So that means we’re now locked down and it’s just dreadful, absolutely dreadful.

“What’s been hypothetical is now very real here.

“Nothing can come onto the farm and nothing can leave it – we’re sort of paralysed.

“It will affect the farm for certainly two months because that’s how long we have to wait before we do another test.

“It’s only been not even 24 hours since I found out and it occupies my mind.

“Honestly, farming? I’m not enjoying it this week.”

The culling could cost the former Top Gear presenter tens of thousands of pounds and lead to a shortage of beef products in his shop.

Badgers are a source of tuberculosis.

Clarkson says there are many many in the area.

But they are protected from being killed.