He might have started off by paying himself just 60 pence an hour, but Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper has come a long way since then with millionaire status on the horizon.
Starring opposite Jeremy Clarkson on the Amazon Prime Video, Cooper has very quickly gone from young farmhand to one of the most recognisable people on British television.
Now aged 26 and a father of two young children, he has become a much loved member of British TV culture after spending the last six years telling Clarkson how he is doing so many things wrong during his venture to take over the daily running of Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire.
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Since Clarkson's Farm, which is set to give us its fourth season in May this year, Cooper has also released a number of books, including 2024's It's A Farming Thing.
He also went on his own UK-wide stage tour as well as his own Amazon Prime Video comedy special based off of the tour, dubbed The World According to Kaleb: On Tour.
Cooper has come a long way since the Chipping Norton native revealed he once paid himself 50p an hour for his extreme, long farming days due to how turbulent farming costs and profit margins were.
Well, the 50 pences are still there. There's just a whole lot more of them in his coffers.
That is, after the business that profits from Cooper's media work are filed with a firm known as Kaleb Cooper Productions Ltd, which filed its latest annual accounts over on Companies House.
In the total full accounts, published last May, it revealed that Cooper has £908,860 in cash and assets. That's up more than four-fold since 2023, where takings sat at £242,000.
It's not Cooper's only business venture. A second company going by Kaleb Cooper Holdings Ltd has a further £46,000 in the bank.
And then there's a nice top-up from the Kaleb Cooper Contracting Ltd business, which is £32,000 in the black.
All in all, it leaves Cooper's business assets £14,000 short of the whopping £1,000,000 mark.
Speaking on Ben and Georgie Ainslie's Performance People podcast back in 2022, he said: "When I’m working for myself, when I’m feeding my calves in the morning - I bought eight calves, it’s like a little bit of a new business idea that I’m doing, buying calves in and then feed them on milk, which costs me about £200 a calf, then selling them at nine months.
"I'm trying to get a profit and see if it will work. I worked it out the other day, do you know how much my hourly rate is, how much I pay myself? 50p an hour."
On Cooper, Clarkson once described himself as a 'wonderful, wonderful person'.
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Topics: Clarkson's Farm, Kaleb Cooper, Celebrity, Money, Business
Tom Earnshaw