The Amazon Prime Video series has been a huge success, with fans flocking to Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm to see what’s on offer – but one woman was left a little shocked by the price
The farm is super popular following the TV show (stock image)(Image: James D. Morgan, Getty Images)
There’s nothing quite like a brilliant day out, and countless visitors are flocking to Clarkson’s Farm to discover what’s available following the tremendous success of the Amazon Prime programme. The show chronicles Jeremy Clarkson’s endeavours at managing a 1,000-acre farm close to Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.
Described by Clarkson as “genuine reality television”, the programme has proved enormously popular with viewers whilst earning acclaim for highlighting the British farming sector to audiences worldwide. After becoming captivated by the show, one woman chose to visit Diddly Squat Farm to see what was available, and the cost of one specific item appeared to astound her.
In a TikTok video, Natalia remarked: “The shop is a lot smaller in real life than what I thought it was going to be, but it was still very good, and had really good things to buy.
“The people in the shop were really nice, and I did get them to feature in the video as well. Around the back of the shop, there is a barn sort of thing where you can get food.
“So the only thing, apart from chips, on the menu is a sausage burger or a beef burger. Each burger was £12 – it was very nice.
“A bit expensive for a burger, but it was nice. This is what the beef burger looked like as well.”
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Natalia’s clip has attracted hundreds of views, with viewers eager to share their opinions. They suggested various ideas.
One enthusiast exclaimed: “Just ate my first Diddly Squat sausage. Well done Jeremy!” While another remarked: “Expensive farm shop, but quality at the same time.”
A third chimed in with: “Loved this day.” In contrast, a fourth enquired: “Is there plenty of parking? I’m thinking of going Saturday, but don’t want to wait forever.”
Natalia confirmed that there’s “plenty” of space for cars in her response and commended the venue for being “well organised” as well.
The debut series of Clarkson’s Farm hit screens in 2021 and quickly became a fan favourite. Following its success, the second series aired in February 2023, clinching the title of the most-watched Prime Video original series in the UK.
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In October 2022, fans were delighted to hear that a third series was on the horizon, later released in two instalments. The first part premiered on May 3, 2024, followed by the second on May 10, 2024.
May 2025 saw the arrival of a fourth series, and whispers suggest a fifth series is currently in development. Devotees of the show are buzzing with excitement over the prospect of yet another season.
The 22-year-old has made waves on the internet yet again with a cover of Kim Carnes’ 1981 hit Bette Davis Eyes, with fans claiming she’s dipping into the viral ‘trad wife’ trend.
Her new look is a far-cry from the outfits she sported on the reality TV show(Image: Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock for Big Brother)
The internet is in turmoil once again after JoJo Siwa posted a bizarre video of herself in a Marilyn-Monroe get up teasing her cover of Kim Carnes’ 1981 hit Bette Davis Eyes.
Her shocking new look is a far cry from the coloured-coded under-cut she sported before entering the Celebrity Big Brother house. The 22-year-old ex-Dance Mom’s star decided to release her version of the classic after performing it live at a concert.
However, now people are calling her a “trad wife” after she’s shacked up with a boyfriend Chris Hughes, launching a seemingly old-timey new look.
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Jojo Siwa enters her ‘trad wife era’ with new song(Image: Jojo Siwa/TikTok)
One person tweeted: “Never thought I’d see the day where JoJo Siwa gets a boyfriend and becomes a trad wife,” after she altered one of the lyrics to make a tribute to her boyfriend, ex-Love Islander Hughes.
Siwa took inspiration from the Hollywood icon as she dressed in a perfectly curled blonde bob, a pearl necklace, and a blousy top.
Just three months ago, she sported a completely different look before coming out as queer after previously identifying as lesbian. The term ‘trad wife’ is short for ‘traditional wife,’ and has become an online moniker for those like Nara Smith who are stay at home mums, or live like 1950’s housewives.
Someone else said: “In all seriousness, JoJo Siwa is the perfect example of the rise in conservatism.”
There was also a reference to her 2024 song Karma, which featured an energetic, masculine dance and a racy music video, with one person saying “The concept of going from Karma to this…”
While starring on season 24 of Celebrity Big Brother UK, fans were dumfounded by what seemed like an instant connection to Hughes, despite Siwa having a girlfriend. JoJo shared on the programme: “I’ve always told myself I’m a lesbian, but I think being here, I’ve realized, ‘Oh no, I’m not a lesbian, I’m queer.’ I think that’s really cool. I’m switching letters.”
She also told Us Weekly in another interview that she was happy that her personal news had started conversations about sexuality. She said: I actually think it starts a very beautiful conversation of queer. I think queer joy is so special and so magical.”
She went on to reject putting her sexuality “in a box.” She said: “Queer is a beautiful umbrella term for the LGBTQIA community,” she said. Before announcing her romance with Hughes, JoJo was in a brief relationship with Australian content creator Kath Ebbs.
As Russia heavily bombarded Ukraine’s cities during the past week, Kyiv’s two most cautious wartime allies appeared to overcome their inhibitions in helping Ukraine defend itself.
US President Donald Trump on Monday [July 7] said he would resume military aid shipments to Ukraine after his defence secretary suspended them last week.
“We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to,” Trump told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting. “They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now.”
Observers have claimed that over the past week, Russia has twice broken its war record for the largest combined strikes against Ukraine.
On Friday, Russia launched 550 air strikes overnight, Ukraine said, including 539 drones and 11 missiles – its biggest strike to date. Ukraine’s Air Force said it neutralised 478 drones and two Iskander-K cruise missiles.
Then on Wednesday, Russia launched 741 air attacks on Ukraine overnight, comprised of 728 Shahed kamikaze drones and a lethal cocktail of missiles. Ukraine claimed to have repelled 711 drones and seven Iskander-K cruise missiles.
The success rate could suggest that Ukraine is far from running out of critical components in its air defence.
That impression was strengthened on Thursday, when Russia launched 397 drones, eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles, six Kh-101 cruise missiles and four S-300/400 guided missiles.
Ukraine’s Air Force neutralised or shot down all the Iskanders, all the Kh-101s, and 382 drones.
(Al Jazeera)
The only weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal that can knock ballistic missiles out of the sky is the US-made Patriot system.
But Moscow’s rising aggression is not the only factor in Trump’s apparent change of heart.
The US leader had suspended all military aid to Ukraine in February, fulfilling a Russian condition for peace talks.
Although that did not work, for months, Trump insisted on appeasing Moscow. But after at least two disappointing phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his tone has changed.
Putin on Friday told Trump by phone that “Russia will achieve its goals” in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters, “We get a lot of b******* thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Last month at The Hague, during the annual NATO summit, Trump said he found Putin “misguided,” after a phone call, adding he was “very surprised” the Russian leader had not agreed on peace terms.
Putin’s right-hand man, the deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, this week said Trump was “riding his favourite political roller coaster again”, oscillating between helping Ukraine and not helping it.
“How should we treat this?” he asked on his Telegram messaging service channel. “Business as usual.”
Ukrainians, too, seemed unimpressed by Trump’s u-turn.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to sense that Trump’s conversion may be real.
On Tuesday, Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, “Today, I instructed the minister of defence and the commander-in-chief to intensify all contacts with the American side.”
“We currently have all the necessary political statements and decisions and we must implement them as quickly as possible to protect our people and positions,” he said.
What does Zelenskyy want?
Zelenskyy has launched a programme called Build with Ukraine, which has secured co-production of critical systems with various European partners, including Norway and the United Kingdom.
Ukraine supplies battlefield testing, and partners provide finance. Both sides supply technology and production capacity.
Ukraine sees this as an ideal marriage of money and technology that enables Ukraine to acquire effective weapons quickly and cheaply.
Zelenskyy now wants to extend such partnerships to US weapons companies, which supply 43 percent of the world’s defence exports.
On Friday, Zelenskyy signed a contract with US drone manufacturer Swift Beat to produce “hundreds of thousands of drones” this year and more next year.
(Al Jazeera)
Ukraine has begun to make strides in downing Russian Shahed kamikaze drones using interceptor drones.
“Interceptor drones demonstrated important performance today,” Zelenskyy said on Friday following Russia’s barrage. “Dozens of Shaheds were taken down specifically by interceptors. We are scaling this up to the hilt.”
Zelenskyy has also said he wants more Patriot launch systems, more Patriot interceptor missiles, and long-range attack missiles that can reach deep inside Russia.
Germany, Ukraine’s other cautious ally, may be stepping in.
Axios reported on Tuesday that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in talks with Trump to co-finance a Patriot battery for Ukraine. There is not yet agreement. Merz wants to pay for a new battery to be shipped from the US to Ukraine. Trump suggests shipping a German one and splitting the cost.
Merz has also overcome his predecessor’s caution about sending Ukraine 1,000km-range (621-mile-range) Taurus cruise missiles, which carry large 450kg (992lb) warheads and are hard to intercept because they travel at high speed.
Ukraine wants them to destroy Russian weapons factories, such as the one at Alabuga that manufactures Shahed drones, and is currently being expanded.
Merz said on Tuesday that he discussed with Zelenskyy the issue of training the Ukrainian military to handle Taurus cruise missiles.
(Al Jazeera)
Russia has repeatedly threatened Germany with consequences if it supplies Ukraine with Taurus missiles.
Germany last week also signed a contract to finance the production of more than 500 Antonov-196 long-range drones for Ukraine, part of a 9-billion-euro ($10.6bn) military aid package this year – the largest in Europe.
Zelenskyy also wants increased sanctions against Russia, and Merz is assuming a leading role in overcoming the objections of two European Union members, Hungary and Slovakia.
The EU has proposed an 18th package of sanctions that would eliminate its last remaining $23bn of energy purchases from Russia.
Slovakia vetoed it last month.
“The entire Slovak industry, including many German companies, depends on Russian energy supplies, as there are currently no alternatives. We are working to solve this problem, and I am involved in these efforts,” Merz said in a TV interview last week.
Despite Merz’s assurances, Slovakia’s permanent EU representative again vetoed the package on Wednesday, diplomats said. The package was to be discussed again on Friday.
Yet this front-and-centre posture to help Ukraine marks a change of policy for Germany, which under its former chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was loath even to raise its own defence spending to 2 percent of GDP.
With Scholz’s support in the Bundestag, Merz has now pledged 3.5 percent by the end of the decade.
Russia’s travails
On the front lines, Russia continued its creeping advance, taking the villages of Puddubnoye and Sobolevka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Sunday, and Tolstoy on Wednesday. But its most telling move was the occupation of Razine on July 3.
“Russian advances west and northwest of Razine most immediately support the envelopment of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad – an operational objective that Russian forces have been pursuing over the last 18 months,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
Russia also occupied the village of Melovoye in Kharkiv last week.
Russian officials are likely to be worried about manpower losses, however.
(Al Jazeera)
Ukrainian commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Russian casualties amounted to 32,420 last month alone.
Medvedev said the pace of recruitment was satisfactory, with 210,000 people signing contracts with the Russian military this year, and another 18,000 signing up as volunteers.
Both losses and recruitment balanced at roughly a thousand people a day, but Russia is looking to boost the number of its forces.
On Monday, Putin signed a law allowing non-Russian citizens to serve in the Russian military. It was expedited “in order to take urgent additional measures to restaff the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, according to TASS.
CNN, citing Ukrainian and Western intelligence, reported that North Korea may send an additional 25,000 to 30,000 troops to Ukraine, in addition to the 11,000 it sent last year.
-6 G Kim (Aus), G Ruffels (Aus), L Maguire (Ire), J Kupcho (US), A Lee (US); -5 M Lee (Aus)
England’s Charley Hull withdrew from the Evian Championship after collapsing during the first round.
The 29-year-old had completed 12 holes of the year’s fourth major and was one under par when she was taken from the course at Evian-les-Bains in France on a medical cart.
Hull’s management told BBC Sport she received an IV drip at the course but did not require hospital treatment.
They said Hull, who had been “battling a virus” and was frustrated because she was playing well, had eaten and was feeling much better.
Hull, who started on the 10th hole, sat in a fairway bunker on the third hole before collapsing on the fourth tee.
The Republic of Ireland’s Leona Maguireis one of five clubhouse leaderson six under par after carding a 65, including a hole-in-one – her first on the LPGA Tour – on the par-three second.
Maguire opened with a bogey but also shot five birdies to share the lead with Americans Andrea Lee and Jennifer Kupcho, and Australians Gabriela Ruffels and Grace Kim.
The quintet hold a one-shot advantage over Australian Minjee Lee, who won her third major title at the PGA Championship last month.
Amateur Lottie Woad, who won the Irish Open last week, and fellow Englishwoman Cara Gainer are three shots off the lead.
World number one Nelly Korda shot a four-under 67 to finish two strokes behind the leaders.
Hull won the Aramco Team Series event in Riyadh in November to claim her first victory since 2022.
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Worth £330 but yours for £40 with this offer(Image: Dennis Pedersen)
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We’ve got a way to save even more on this limited-edition OK! Beauty Box(Image: Dennis Pedersen)
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A woman has gone viral on social media after sharing a clip of her experience at a Billie Eilish concert, where she wasn’t able to actually hear the singer due to a “baffling” reason
Billie Eilish performs onstage during her tour(Image: Kevin Mazur, Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)
Many music fans dream of catching their idols live in concert, willing to splash out on tickets to hear their favourite tunes performed up close. Yet, one woman’s experience at a Billie Eilish gig took an unexpected turn when she found herself unable to hear the star due to an unusual disturbance.
Ana, who goes by anapanaderoo on TikTok, went viral after posting a clip from the concert where an opera singer seemingly drowned out Eilish’s performance. The video, captioned “Who was singing opera next to me at the Billie Eilish concert?”, showcases the moment Eilish’s voice is overshadowed by powerful operatic vocals.
The footage has racked up over 400,000 views and sparked a flurry of comments from shocked viewers.
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One person quipped: “Who’s this diva (literally)?”, while another remarked: “Out singing the singer.”
A third commented in disbelief: “Is this real? I’m weak.” Another shared their mixed emotions, writing: “I would be so mad, then laugh. Then be mad when it never stops.”
One more viewer joked: “God forbid a Renaissance diva attends a Billie Eilish concert.” Someone else lamented the high cost of tickets, adding: “With ticket prices these days, I would be so mad.”
Billie Eilish, 23, is currently thrilling fans on her “Hit Me Hard And Soft” tour, and recently wowed crowds in Glasgow, with ticket prices reportedly ranging from £65.00 to a steep £160.00.
The US songstress first captured hearts in 2015 with her debut single “Ocean Eyes”, penned and produced by her brother, Finneas O’Connell. Her subsequent EP, “Don’t Smile at Me”, released in 2017, became an international sensation, topping charts in the US, UK and Australia.
Her first full-length album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, catapulted to the top of both the US Billboard 200 and the UK albums chart, becoming one of the hottest albums of the year. In 2020, Eilish lent her voice to the James Bond theme “No Time to Die”, which soared to number one in the UK singles chart and snagged the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Eilish’s meteoric rise has undoubtedly cemented her as a favourite in the UK music scene. Yet, concertgoers expect to experience her unique sound live, which is why Ana was left baffled when an operatic performance dominated her show experience, sparking a divide among fans.
One fan expressed their frustration, saying: “I like opera, but this would annoy me so much. Just want to see and hear Billie.”
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Another fan was less reserved, commenting: “Not to be one of those people, but this would p*** me off so bad.
“I came to see Billie. If I wanted to I’d have gone to the opera house to see Phantom of the Opera, but not this.”
