The Grand Tour star Jeremy Clarkson nearly lost a leg whilst operating a reach forklift truck on his Diddly Squat farm.
Taking a seat on ITV's The Jonathan Ross Show tonight (November 27), the popular TV presenter recalled the near life-changing accident.
"More accidents [occur] in farming than all the other industries put together.
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"I got this thing called a telehandler, it's like a JCB thing. I thought: 'I'll just use its front to push the post in,'" he explained.
"It got halfway into the ground and the fence was leaning on it and it flicked back. How it didn't take my leg off... I didn't walk properly for a week. This was a quarter of a tonne of fencepost!"
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You'd better thank your lucky stars in that case, Jezza.
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Further along the interview, the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? quizmaster discussed how his Amazon Prime Video docuseries Clarkson's Farm was born.
"It was an accident," he revealed. "I was contractually obliged – I had to make a programme on my own. I thought: 'I'm slightly bored of Terminal 5. I'll film at home on the farm'.
"I thought what a lovely programme it would be to try and learn to be a farmer. I genuinely love it out there."
Consisting of eight episodes, the first season proved so popular with streaming service subscribers that it was renewed for a follow-up a month after it premiered.
The Jonathan Ross Show airs tonight at 10.05pm on ITV. The Grand Tour and Clarkson's Farm are available on Amazon Prime Video.
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