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He may be beloved by millions of farmers and car fans up and down the country but broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson has revealed there is no love lost between him and St Valentine as he intends to spend the most romantic day of the year ‘knee-deep in mud and dung'.

Writing in his column for , the Clarkson's Farm star joked February 14 had been ‘high jacked' by women who demanded they were taken to a ‘fancy restaurant' before filling the bathroom with ‘stupid scented candles'.

Thehost wrote: "As you may have gathered, I will not be doing anything special on Wednesday, and luckily I share my life with someone who would not want to. The very idea makes a little bit of sick go into her mouth."

Instead Mr Clarkson said he and his partner Lisa Hogan would be at home in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire tending to the Diddly Squat livestock and said: "I would not want to swap it for all the pinkness on Moonpig."

Mr Clarkson has been dating Ms Hogan since 2017 and she often appears on his Amazon Prime hit series, Clarkson's Farm, often trying to talk Mr Clarkson out of one of his schemes.

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Series two notched up the most viewers the platform had ever had and it has been recently revealed Amazon series three will arrive on May 3.

According to Amazon, the new episodes will find Mr Clarkson, his trusty sidekick Kaleb Cooper and the rest of the Diddly Squat crew facing ‘some seriously daunting challenges'.

Teasing the series, Amazon said: "The crops are failing in the severe hot weather, inflation has driven prices of supplies sky high, dreams for the beloved restaurant are dashed and now the farm shop also faces closure.

"Jeremy urgently needs to come up with creative new ways of making ends meet, so hatches a plan to turn a profit from hundreds of acres of unfarmed land - thick woodland and hedgerows that make up half of Diddly Squat."