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Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper has revealed how he became addicted to coffee during his early days milking cows before being forced into a Trainspotting-style detox that left him ‘climbing walls “.

The young agricultural contractor, who rose to fame in the Amazon Prime documentary series, sought help from doctors after suffering from “headaches” and was sent for “loads of scans” before discovering that the mysterious illness was caused by too much coffee.

“Coming up was horrible,” he writes in his new book, It’s a Farming Thing, which is published today. “I had to go pure cold turkey… I felt like I imagine Keith Richards must have felt, or that guy from Trainspotting.

“Okay, I didn’t see any terrible things crawling across the ceiling, but that’s because I was too busy climbing the walls.”

These days, the Chipping Norton-born star has a morning cup of tea or apple juice. “I usually drink tea. I don’t drink much coffee anymore because I overdid it when I was younger.” But he also admits that while he’s not much of a wine drinker, he loves cider.

“To quote The Wurzels, and there’s never a wrong time to quote The Wurzels, I’m a cider drinker. I’m such a cider drinker that I have to be careful to be much less of a cider drinker…” he writes. “Just send me to sleep The kind where you wake up and you don’t know what time it is, or day, or century, or who or where you are.”

Kaleb, who was hired to help ex-petrol boss Jeremy Clarkson run a 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire, published his first memoir, The World According to Kaleb Cooper, two years ago and became a sales success.

The mickey-taking and bickering between Cooper, 26, and Clarkson, 64, has made their double act a big part of the success of the hit Amazon Prime series, which has run for 24 episodes over three seasons “The chemistry between us is obviously good,” he said. “As soon as we get in the same room, it just clicks. It’s so much fun when we’re together.”

Clarkson bought the 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, in 2008, but only took over management in 2019 and has since turned his efforts into three successful seasons of the Amazon Prime show.

A fourth series will begin filming early next year. The documentary has been praised by critics for raising awareness of British farming and the challenges of modern farming.

Earlier this week, Clarkson revealed in a newspaper column that he had needed a life-saving operation to clear blocked arteries after falling ill on a recent holiday.

“I was at the breakfast table and when I got up to leave, I had to take a moment to make sure my limbs were working properly,” she wrote. The former Top Gear presenter, who opened a refurbished pub, The Farmer’s Dog, near Burford, Oxon, this year, felt “humorous and had tightness in his chest”.

A doctor was called when he noticed “pins and needles” in his left arm and he was taken by ambulance to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. After being diagnosed with a blocked artery, a stent was inserted to keep it open and restore blood flow to the heart.