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Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, and Nicolas Cage are among Hollywood notables who have shared their experiences with the notoriously 'difficult' actor. 11 costars or directors who have spoken about working with Val Kilmer Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, and Nicolas Cage are among Hollywood notables who have shared their experiences with the notoriously 'difficult' actor. By Kathleen Perricone June 3, 2026 12:12 a.m. ET :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/TomCruiseValKilmerNicolasCage0602262226408af5ad454c9c10aecd4e528596.jpg) Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Nicolas Cage.

Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, and Nicolas Cage are among Hollywood notables who have shared their experiences with the notoriously 'difficult' actor.

11 costars or directors who have spoken about working with Val Kilmer

Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, and Nicolas Cage are among Hollywood notables who have shared their experiences with the notoriously 'difficult' actor.

By Kathleen Perricone

June 3, 2026 12:12 a.m. ET

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Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Nicolas Cage. Credit:

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Val Kilmer was an actor dedicated to his craft, perhaps to a fault. Many of his former costars and directors have spoken out on what it was like behind the scenes working with the notoriously difficult star on the sets of films such as *Top Gun*, *Batman Forever*, *Tombstone*, and *The Doors*.

Kilmer, who passed away April 1, 2025, at the age of 65, was fully aware of his Hollywood reputation. And during a 2017 Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A, he provided some insight. He admitted to taking "risks" with his performances while not always considering the potential financial impact on a production, which he acknowledged was "foolish." As he explained, "I was often unhappy trying to make pictures better.”

Here are 11 memorable experiences straight from the mouths of Kilmer's former costars and directors.

American actors Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott.

Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in 'Top Gun'.

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The two played rivals onscreen in *Top Gun*, and just like their characters, Cruise and Kilmer shared a complicated bond that evolved with age. During the making of the 1986 movie, the method actors were so immersed in being Maverick and Iceman they hardly interacted when the cameras weren't rolling.

Despite their frosty relationship on the set, "I felt so grateful that he decided to make the film," Cruise told *Sight and Sound* magazine in 2025 about Kilmer, a Juilliard grad, who was reluctant to play a "supporting" role.

"I was calling his agent," Cruise recalled, "and [director] Tony Scott was hunting him down and meeting in an elevator… and he was like, 'Please, Val, please.'"

As Iceman, Kilmer was "just on fire," gushed Cruise. "If you look at *Top Gun*, I think he's in the movie maybe 10 minutes. That's the impact of an artist like that."

Three decades later, when Cruise and Kilmer reunited for the sequel, *Top Gun: Maverick*, "it was like time had not passed. We were laughing and it was joyous. And then we started acting and it's just, you see it… he became Iceman."

By then, throat cancer had greatly affected Kilmer's voice, a detail that was written into the script: Iceman communicated with Maverick by typing his thoughts into a computer.

"He didn't even have to speak," Cruise said. "That's what he's able to do. Beautiful, really beautiful. A gift that he had and that he shared with all of us."

Two days after Kilmer's passing, Cruise took a moment to "honor a dear friend of mine" during his appearance at CinemaCon.

"I really can't tell you how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human, and how grateful and honored I was when he joined [the] first *Top Gun* and came back for *Top Gun: Maverick*. He gave a lot to all of us with his performances," Cruise said.

Warwick Davis

WILLOW, Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, 1988

Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis in 'Willow'.

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Kilmer had an ally on and off screen in *Willow*, the 1988 fantasy flick about a disaffected warrior who joins forces with an aspiring magician, played by Davis, to protect a baby princess.

"He's really the reason I got through the making of the film *Willow*," Davis told *** *following Kilmer's death. "Because if ever I was tired, exhausted, fed up, cold, he'd say, 'Come on, keep going!' And he'd be the kind of leader of the army, keeping us going. He was a beautiful man."

Kilmer didn't reprise his role for the 2022 Disney+ series due to his health, and his presence was greatly missed.

"I always like to tell the world how great he was, because I often think the media gave the wrong impression of who he was as a person," Davis told EW. "He was a very warm, generous, kind-hearted person."

Oliver Stone

Val Kilmer and director Oliver Stone on set of THE DOORS

Oliver Stone directs Val Kilmer in 'The Doors'.

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Kilmer embodied psychedelic rocker Jim Morrison in the 1991 biopic *The Doors*.

“His personality was not easy to get along with,” Stone revealed to RogerEbert.com in 2025. “Creative people are often self-involved, and there was a fair amount of stuff you’d expect to see from an eccentric young actor in Hollywood—although, even by those standards, Val was pretty out there.”

The relationship between Kilmer and Stone started off strong, but production of *The Doors *ended on a sour note, especially for the lead star.

"He did a great job, but he was not happy with me or himself, and he was very troubled in many ways," Stone said. "At the end of the movie, he hurt me by saying things to me that were not kind. It was a bitter experience in a sense, you know: ‘Goodbye. Go to hell.’ That kind of thing.”

Despite the fallout, when Stone was casting 2004's *Alexander*, he had one person in mind to play King Philip II of Macedon, the titular character's father.

"I had a hunch that he would be good for it,” Stone said of Kilmer. “And he did it perfectly."

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in TOMBSTONE

Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in 'Tombstone'.

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The making of the 1993 Western *Tombstone* was fairly wild, beginning with its original director getting fired at the start of production. But for Russell and Kilmer, who starred as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, respectively, the chaos only brought them closer.

“I thought his performance was one of his best,” Russell told *Rolling Stone* just after Kilmer's death. “We were always in cahoots. We were always thinking the same thing. That was a big part of why I had such a great time working with him. It was a collaboration in a lot of ways that is a wonderful thing to have.”

Russell admitted he had a soft spot for Kilmer because he got to know the person beneath the tough exterior.

"I don’t disagree that he was complicated, but I just always felt he wore so many things on his sleeve that I couldn’t help but appreciate," Russell said.

The mutual admiration forged a lifelong bond. The last time Russell visited Kilmer before his passing, “It was difficult for him to talk [but] he had wonderful things to say. He had a fairly good sense of humor," Russell recalled to *Rolling Stone*. "He said, ‘Sometimes, I could have been a little bit nicer to a lot of people.’ And he laughed. He was being retrospective, looking back on his life. He was a good guy."

Michael Biehn

Michael Biehn in TOMBSTONE

Michael Biehn in 'Tombstone'.

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Ever the method actor, Kilmer stayed in character on the set of *Tombstone* by not making nice with Doc Holliday's nemesis, outlaw Johnny Ringo, played by Biehn.

"People ask me all the time about Val Kilmer, and I always say the same thing: I don't f---ing have any idea 'cause I never met Val Kilmer," Biehn said in 2025 on his podcast *Just Foolin About*. "I never spent any time with who I would consider Val Kilmer… There was no interactions. We stayed away from each other."

As Biehn explained it, the lawmen and the outlaws drew a line in the sand on the Arizona set. Kilmer and Russell had their own clique apart from cowboy gang members like Biehn's Ringo and "Curly Bill" Brocius, played by Powers Boothe. The rivalry between Holliday and Ringo ultimately ends in a deadly duel, a pivotal scene that required rehearsing. Kilmer and Biehn drove to the location separately and didn't acknowledge each other once they arrived.

"There was never any, 'Hey Val, how you doing,'" Biehn recalled. "None of that... because he was one of *them*."

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Joel Schumacher

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Val Kilmer and 'Batman Forever' director Joel Schumacher in 1995.

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*Batman Forever* felt like an eternity for its director. Kilmer, who took over the role from Michael Keaton for the 1995 installment, was "childish and impossible" to deal with, Schumacher told ** in 1996 — after he replaced Kilmer with George Clooney for *Batman & Robin*.

"[Kilmer] was being irrational and ballistic with the first AD, the cameraman, the costume people," Schumacher revealed. "He was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate. I was forced to tell him that this would not be tolerated for one more second."

Kilmer was so upset, he didn't speak to the director for two weeks.

"It was bliss," Schumacher quipped.

Drew Barrymore

Val Kilmer, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey, and Drew Barrymore in Batman Forever

Val Kilmer, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey, and Drew Barrymore in 'Batman Forever'.

Barrymore had a much different experience making *Batman Forever*.

"Val Kilmer was so nice to me," the actress, who played Two-Face's cohort Sugar, remembered on *The Drew Barrymore Show*. "So nurturing and kind and safe, which was a very important thing for me.”

John Frankenheimer

Val Kilmer in The Island Of Dr. Moreau

Val Kilmer in 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'.

Richard Stanley, the original director of *The Island of Dr. Moreau*, jumped ship only three days into filming due to "argumentative" Kilmer. Frankenheimer took over for the project — and inherited Stanley's same difficulties. Except he gave it right back to Kilmer.

The actor once tried to give his opinion during a scene, but Frankenheimer cut him off before he could finish: "I don't give a f--- [what you think]." The moment Kilmer wrapped his final scene, Frankenheimer reportedly remarked, "Now get that bastard off my set."

But the director went on-record with EW to broadcast his unfiltered thoughts on the star: "I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic, and I don’t want to be associated with him ever again.”

Nicolas Cage

Val Kilmer (L) and Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Val Kilmer and Nicolas Cage in 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'.

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Kilmer got to tap into his comedic side in 2009's *Bad Lieutenant*: *Port of Call New Orleans*, playing the partner of Cage's titular character, a drug-addicted police detective trying to solve a string of murders.

The two had been longtime admirers of each other and forged "an interesting relationship," Cage told Collider.

"We don't have a friendship per se, but would write letters to each other, from one actor to another, offering support to one another, as we did for *Tombstone* and *Leaving Las Vegas*," Cage said. "We always knew there was camaraderie there… So to get a chance to work with Val was a good thing, and I hope we'll have more to do together. He is my brother, in many ways, as a fellow artist."

When his former costar passed in 2025, Cage reflected on sharing the screen with Kilmer in *Bad* *Lieutenant*, saying, "I admired his commitment and sense of humor."

Jorma Taccone

Jorma Taccone and Val Kilmer at the premiere of "MacGruber" at 2010 SXSW Festival at Paramount Theater on March 15, 2010 in Austin, Texas

Jorma Taccone and Val Kilmer at the 'MacGruber' premiere in 2010.

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Kilmer and his director got off on a strange foot when they first met to discuss the 2010 action-comedy *MacGruber*, a parody of *MacGyver*, starring *Saturday Night Live*'s Will Forte.

"I drove out to Malibu to meet him, and his door was open," Taccone recalled on *The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast*. "I go in the house, and he's on the balcony… throwing these little chips or something into the ocean, and he's going, 'Are you a king? Are you a king?'"

Kilmer then started tossing the "little paper chips" at Taccone.

"It takes me, like, a couple minutes to figure out that he was invited to Mardi Gras that year to play King Bacchus, the guy who leads the float," he explained. "And these are little paper chips that he's supposed to be throwing out to the crowd with his face on it."

Ultimately, Taccone realized Kilmer "was just messing with me," and it was the start of an amusing relationship.

"He was such this wonderful ball-buster of a human being, just f---ing with life and just, he was on every level the most interesting mind," the director said. "I will forever remember that particular meeting."

CONSPIRACY, Val Kilmer, 2008.

Val Kilmer in 'Conspiracy,' directed by Adam Marcus.

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Kilmer's director in 2008's *Conspiracy* waited until after the star's death to break his silence — and he didn't hold back on his not-so-fond memories.

"#MicroIntellectMonday to that time when I directed that guy," Marcus teased in a June 1, 2026, post on Threads. "The guy who played Iceman and Doc Holiday [sic]. You know the one. Here’s me and the Putz working it out on the set of *Conspiracy*," he wrote, including a photo of himself and Kilmer, who played a disabled veteran investigating his friend's disappearance in an Arizona border town.

The timing could not have been any worse, just a little over a year since the actor's passing. Marcus didn't care, however.

"And to any of you rolling your eyes because of the whole 'don’t speak ill of the dead bullsh--', f--- that," he continued, adding that if Kilmer "did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink. Worst human being I’ve ever known… and that is really saying something."

Marcus didn't elaborate on what Kilmer allegedly did on *Conspiracy* and ultimately deleted the controversial post altogether.

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Our story begins during the pandemic. No, not a pandemic from 100 years ago — the one we recently experienced. It's 2022, and Louis is living in a high-rise in Dubai, where he's being interviewed by Daniel about his life as a vampire. He was turned in 1910 by the mysterious Lestat, while both of them lived in New Orleans. The first episode feels like a mini movie and packs in a lot of plot, so you definitely don't want to miss this one on a rewatch or first watch of the series.

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To make Louis happy, Lestat turns a teen girl into a vampire. Not surprisingly, it changes their lives in a big way and the two dads have their hands full teaching 14-year-old Claudia (Bailey Bass) how to survive and become accustomed to bloodsucking before she's figured out her place in the world. This episode also features a scene with Louis and Lestat fighting in French, and Bass perfectly delivering the line, "I'm so hungry I think I'm gonna die!"

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Louis de Point du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), and Claudia (Bailey Bass) on 'Interview With the Vampire'.

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Louis and Lestat's relationship suffers after Claudia decides to leave New Orleans. When she returns, Lestat and Louis engage in a violent fight that ends in the air. Yes, Lestat reveals he can fly! (Or *float*, as Louis calls it.) A heartbroken Lestat tells Louis, "I have patiently waited in vain for you to love me as I love you," before dropping his lover from the sky.

Well, that's one way to break up!

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Every TV show needs at least one epic episode centered around a wedding or party, and *IWTV* achieves this with its season 1 finale. After Lestat finagles his way into becoming the King Raj of Mardi Gras in 1940, the vampire trio throws an extravagant bash that ends in a bloodbath. All the while, Claudia and Louis plot to kill Lestat and travel to Europe. But first, Loustat (their ship name) share a romantic dance, where they gaze deeply into one another's eyes and passionately kiss in front of a shocked crowd. Of course, Louis can't burn Lestat — which would guarantee death — after that! Instead, he and Claudia poison Lestat.

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Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) on 'Interview With the Vampire' season 2.

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After traveling through Europe at the end of World War II, Claudia (played by Delainey Hayles in season 2) and Louis settle down in Paris, where Louis takes up photography. Everything feels a little lighter for our characters until they meet the vampires who run Théâtre des Vampires, headed by Louis' present-day partner, Armand (Assad Zaman). Just when it seems like the pair of travelers has finally found their community in the City of Light, we see Lestat's portrait hanging on a wall in the theater. Lestat's the co-founder! Louis and Claudia decide to keep their past history with Lestat — and the fact that they poisoned him and left him to die — a secret from the French coven.

We also learn that both Louis and Armand dated Lestat before dating each other. Daniel can't contain himself over this revelation, yelling out, "It's a telenovela!"

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Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) on 'Interview With the Vampire'.

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This episode is a fan favorite for a reason. We see a young Daniel (Luke Brandon Field, perfectly cast) meet Louis at a bar in San Francisco in 1973. When Louis invites him back to his apartment to start the interview, Daniel misreads the vibe and takes off his shirt. Present-day Daniel asks Louis if they hooked up that night, since he can't remember. (No, they didn't.)

Eventually, they both realize Armand altered their memories. Armand tortured and planned to drain Daniel, but Louis stepped in to save him. Louis is also left writhing in pain after intentionally walking outside during the day.

"I Could Not Prevent It" (season 2, episode 7)

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Ah, the trial episode. The thespian vampires abduct Louis, Claudia, and the newly turned Madeleine (Roxane Duran) and put them on stage to face their crimes. Lestat returns to testify, and dramatically recall the events from New Orleans. However, when it comes time for the audience to gleefully sentence Louis to death, Armand uses his powers to save him from that fate and be be banished instead. The vampires take Louis to their crypt, lock him in a coffin, and cover him with rocks to starve for the rest of eternity. Claudia and Madeleine are burned by the sun and killed on stage, as Lestat watches with tears in his eyes.

In a haunting final image, Santiago (Ben Daniels) picks up Claudia's dress from a pile of ashes.

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Armand (Assad Zaman) on 'Interview With the Vampire'.

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The season 2 finale is the best episode of* IWTV*. Thanks to Daniel’s smooth follow-up questions, the bombshell of the series is revealed: Armand* didn't *save Louis. Lestat did! Yet since Lestat didn't take credit for his gesture, Armand swooped in.

And then we get the ending that feels as if it's pulled from a rom-com. Louis rushes back to New Orleans, where Lestat is currently living (and teases his plan to go on tour as a musician), and tells him what he's learned. Lestat saved him from death, yet he didn't say anything for 77 years.

"I don't like to point out my virtues," Lestat simply says.

They embrace as a hurricane rages on outside, acting as if they are the only two people on the planet. Cut the cameras!

But before all the romance, let's rewind a bit and appreciate Louis going full John Wick on the French coven who killed Claudia and shoved him in a coffin. The shot of Louis slicing off Santiago's head is iconic. Luckily, though, one vamp escaped, and that’s how Daniel ended up with the annotated script decades later, showing that Armand directed the play and intended for his boyfriend to die.

Daniel goes on to publish his best-selling book. Oh, and one more thing: He's a vampire now, thanks to Armand.

All episodes of *Interview With the Vampire* are streaming on AMC+. *The Vampire Lestat* premieres Sunday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on AMC and AMC+.

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- "I'm hoping it's okay," he said.

- If not, the *Ant-Man* actor said he'll take the winners instead of his family "because I only get a very small allotment.”

Oh snap! Paul Rudd may have just landed himself in some *marvelous* trouble.

The *Ant-Man *actor revealed that he recently auctioned off tickets to attend the world premiere of *Avengers: Doomsday** *as part of a Big Slick Celebrity Weekend charity event — without asking Marvel for its approval first.

“Someone bought the tickets — get ready for this — for $100,000,” host Jimmy Fallon noted on Tuesday’s episode of *The Tonight Show**. *

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“I mean, it’s so crazy that that kind of caught on, because I didn’t even ask Marvel, I just auctioned them off,” Rudd replied. “So I’m hoping it’s okay.”

When asked by a surprised Fallon what he plans to do if he can’t bring the winners with him, Rudd simply responded, “Well then my family’s not going because I only get a very small allotment.”

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Which is totally fine, because “we all know Marvel’s not secretive or anything,” Fallon teased.

“No, no, they don’t care,” Rudd quipped. “Yeah, they’ll let anybody in. And just tweet whatever you want.”

The money spent on the tickets is going to a good cause. The Big Slick — which was co-founded seventeen years ago by Rudd, Rob Riggle, and Jason Sudeikis — raises funds for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

What started as a poker tournament has since expanded to include a big show, a baseball game, and more. “Our goal was that first year to hopefully raise $50,000. We exceeded that. We made almost $100,000,” Rudd said. “Then we thought, ‘Oh, we should try and do this again next year.’ Our families help volunteer. They run it with us.”

He continued, “And then we brought on Eric Stonestreet, Dave Koechner, Heidi Gardner — also all from Kansas City — and their families, and now, this many years later, we’re almost at $40 million raised thanks to the amazing people of Kansas City who support it.”

And at least one of those lucky people will be (hopefully) attending the *Doomsday* premiere with Rudd. The upcoming *Avengers* film follows on the heels of *Fantastic Four: the First Steps *and *Spider-Man: Brand New Day *and is set to introduce Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom.

Joining Rudd and Downey on the adventure is a pantheon of star-studded actors including Chris Evans, Patrick Stewart, Simu Liu, Anthony Mackie, Vanessa Kirby, Chris Hemsworth, Rebecca Romijn, Pedro Pascal, Florence Pugh, Tenoch Huerta, and more.

*Avengers: Doomsday* explodes into theaters on Dec. 18. Watch Rudd talk about his charity in the clip above.

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Lauren MorrisSun, June 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM UTC

Jeremy Clarkson has given the farming world a spotlight with his Prime Video show Clarkson's Farm and while it's been a hit with fans, Countryfile presenter and farmer Adam Henson has revealed his own thoughts on the presenter's agricultural efforts.

Former Top Gear presenter Clarkson, 66, bought the 1000-acre farm in the Cotswolds in 2008 and after the villager who ran it retired in 2019, he decided to take it over. As seen over five series of the show, the broadcaster has developed it into Diddly Squat farm, opening up his own pub, The Farmer's Dog, as well as a farm shop run by his partner, Lisa Hogan.

Clarkson's neighbour, TV presenter and farmer Adam Henson, has opened up about the Grand Tour star's impact on the farming community – revealing that he's "a great advocate" for them.

Adam Henson on 'Countryfile' (BBC)

Speaking to The Oxford Mail, Henson said that while he has only met Clarkson a number of times, they "get on really well".

"It seems to me from the people around him and from his own voice that he's really found a passion in farming," he said. "He's a great advocate for British agriculture, and he's tied up with some great people who work on the programme with him.

"Clarkson's Farm is very funny, it's quite theatrical in the way it's produced, but it's brought agriculture and farming to a whole new section of society. And for me as a farmer who loves telling the story about British agriculture, you've now got programmes like Countryfile and Clarkson's Farm, you've got YouTubers, you've got people on Instagram."

Henson added that he's a fan of anyone who can "help educate the consumer and the British public" about farming culture.

Jeremy Clarkson with farm hand Kaleb Cooper on 'Clarkson's Farm' (PA)

TV presenter Henson, 60, is best known for appearing on Countryfile as well as BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. He runs his family's Cotswold Hills farm – a 650-hectare estate – with the Cotswold Farm Park.

Clarkson's Farm returned to our screens earlier this month and it's been an emotional one so far – with the presenter breaking down in tears after being forced to give away his pigs.

Having been told that keeping pigs on his farm was not financial viable, Clarkson became tearful as he sent many of them off to the slaughterhouse. "I love the pigs. I've just been delighted with every day I'm down there, they make my heart sing I'm so happy with them but we're running a business here and they make no financial sense at all," he said in the most recent episode.

Elsewhere in the series, Clarkson opened up about being days away from death after suffering a heart emergency, while viewers watched as he burned an effigy of Keir Starmer in response to LAbour's proposed 20 per cent inheritance tax hike.

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