Jeremy Clarkson Spent £5,500 On A Prize Breeding Bull — And Then Discovered He Had Zero Interest In Any Of The Cows
Farming has thrown Jeremy Clarkson plenty of curveballs over the years, but few episodes have delivered a plot twist quite as unexpected as the saga of Endgame, Diddly Squat’s £5,500 prize breeding bull, and his complete, baffling lack of interest in doing the one job he was actually purchased for.
The plan seemed simple enough on paper. Clarkson brought Endgame onto the farm specifically to breed with his herd, introducing the pricey new arrival to seven female cows with high hopes of a fresh crop of calves down the line. What actually happened left Clarkson thoroughly confused. Rather than showing any interest in his seven potential mates, Endgame simply walked in the opposite direction.
“He’s gone the wrong way. Seven ladies and he’s not even bothered,” Clarkson observed, watching the scene unfold with visible bewilderment. Things got stranger still moments later, as the cows themselves began chasing after Endgame instead, prompting an increasingly baffled Clarkson to ask why on earth one of the cows appeared to be attempting to mount the bull.
Farm manager Kaleb Cooper, ever the voice of practical, if occasionally blunt, farming wisdom, stepped in to explain the reality of the situation: yes, farm animals can absolutely be gay, and this appeared to be exactly what was happening with Endgame. It’s a moment that captures something genuinely charming about Clarkson’s Farm at its best, watching a 65-year-old media veteran encounter something entirely new and simply ask the obvious, slightly incredulous question out loud rather than pretending he already knew the answer.
For anyone assuming this was some kind of TV-manufactured shock moment, the science actually backs Kaleb up completely. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than 1,500 animal species have been documented engaging in same-sex behaviour, a well-established and entirely natural phenomenon across the animal kingdom, from penguins to dolphins to, evidently, prize Aberdeen Angus bulls on an Oxfordshire farm.
It wasn’t an isolated incident either. Around the same stretch of the season, Clarkson found himself facing a similarly unexpected question in the pig pen, wondering aloud whether one of his pigs might be “trans,” after noticing behaviour that once again didn’t fit his prior assumptions about how farm animals were supposed to behave. True to form, Clarkson met the moment with the same blend of genuine curiosity and comic bewilderment that’s made the show’s animal storylines such consistent fan favourites.
Endgame’s story took on extra emotional weight later in the season, when Diddly Squat was hit with a bovine TB outbreak. Clarkson revealed at the time that Endgame’s own test results had come back “inconclusive,” admitting to fans that he genuinely couldn’t bear the thought of losing the bull, regardless of his complicated feelings about breeding duties. The beloved bull, it turned out, had won Clarkson over as a personality on the farm long before his more practical purpose was ever really settled.
It’s a small but genuinely funny reminder of what makes Diddly Squat’s animal cast so beloved among fans: nothing ever quite goes the way Jeremy expects it to, and more often than not, the animals themselves end up teaching him something he had absolutely no idea about going in.
