New Diddly Squat farmhand Harriet Cowan took a cheeky swipe at boss Jeremy Clarkson by claiming not all farmers are ’60-year-old men with beer bellies’.

The glam blonde, 24, starred in season four of the Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm, which follows former Top Gear host, 65, as he masters the art of farming, after manager Kaleb Cooper, 26, was unable to appear in several episodes.

Now Harriett, who also works as a nurse, has said she hopes her starring role in the show will help challenge the stereotype of who can be a farmer. 

She told BBC News: ‘I think when you talk to somebody and ask what they stereotypically think of when someone says farmer they say “60-year-old man with a checked shirt and a beer belly”, and a lot of the time that is it, but us women are out here and farmers too,’

‘Just because I’m a small, blonde that likes to curl her hair and wear make-up, it doesn’t mean I can’t be a farmer’.

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New Diddly Squat farmhand Harriet Cowan, 24, took a cheeky swipe at boss Jeremy Clarkson by claiming not all farmers are ’60-year-old men with beer bellies’

The glam blonde, starred in season four of the Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm, which follows former Top Gear host as he masters the art of farming (pictured together on the show)

‘I’m trying to change the norm of the man being the farmer and the woman being the stay-at-home wife and cook. When the war was on, women did all the farming, so we have always farmed – it’s just changing that stereotype’.

On Thursday Harriet was seen posing with her new fans at the Staffordshire County Show after swiftly becoming a fan favourite. 

She cut a casual figure in a white T-shirt and blue jeans as she strolled around, looking at the livestock and tractors. 

While enjoying a day out in the sun, several fans stopped Harriet to ask for a picture, with one penning on Instagram: ‘Made my day’  

Stafford County Show is a two-day agricultural show with compeтιтions for livestock & horses, over 400 trade stands, country pursuits area with something for all the family on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 May 2025.

The outing comes after Harriet broke her silence on a ‘fake’ Clarkson’s Farm scene as she spoke candidly on on the Should I Delete That podcast with Jeremy’s daughter Emily this week. 

She spoke about one scene in the trailer that she thought seemed ‘fake’ when she watched it back but was in fact completely true.

They discussed on the podcast how busy farmers are and how Harriet also works a full time nursing job five days a week.

Now Harriett, who also works as a nurse, has said she hopes her starring role in the show will help challenge the stereotype of who can be a farmer 

She said: ‘Just because I’m a small, blonde that likes to curl her hair and wear make-up, it doesn’t mean I can’t be a farmer’

‘I’m trying to change the norm of the man being the farmer and the woman being the stay-at-home wife and cook (L-R Jeremy and Kaleb pictured on the show)

Emily asked her: ‘Do you ever sit down with your boyfriend and chill together, or eat together? It sounds impossible.’

Harriet then said: ‘No! In the trailer where it’s like, ‘Have you watched Clarkson’s Farm before?’ And I’m like, ‘No’, and when I watched it it looked so fake.

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‘But it is so real because we don’t watch telly.

‘Literally, if we watch something, James will sit down, his head will hit the back of the sofa and he’s asleep because the second he can rest, he’ll sleep, because he’s so tired all the time.’

On the podcast Harriet also spoke about breaking stereotypes of women working in farming.

She said of appearing on the show: ‘I wanted to show that women can do it too, we are there but people can’t see it. Women can do it.

‘Most people think of just older men wearing checked shirts when it comes to farming.

On Thursday Harriet was seen posing with her new fans at the Staffordshire County Show after swiftly becoming a fan favourite 

She cut a casual figure in a white T-shirt and blue jeans as she strolled around, looking at the livestock and tractors 

‘I am challenging people’s views of what people think a farmer looks like. People are so shocked when they drive past and I’m in the tractor they just stare.’

Clarkson’s Farm series one to three are available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. 

Series four will air from May 23, with two additional episodes released a week later on May 30, followed by the final two on June 6.