JIMMY Doherty reveals the fate of his Farmhouse Breakfast C4 show after his first series was a hit.
Farmer and TV star Jimmy, known for his close friendship and former partnership with Jamie Oliver, and former MasterChef star Shivi Ramoutar presented Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast last year.
The hit show featured a whole variety of guests last season, including drag queens and Virgin Radio hosts Dick and Dom and now it is set to return for a second series.
Centred around delicious food and drink, crafts, animals and country life, the show aired live from Jimmy’s home farm which is estimated to be twice the size of London Zoo.
His Farm & Wildlife Park is also celebrating yet another major win, after taking home the coveted “Experience of the Year” award at the prestigious Visit East of England’s Suffolk & Norfolk Tourism Awards.
The farm known for its unforgettable up-close animal encounters, wowed judges with its spectacular polar bear experience – securing its place as one of the region’s top destinations for wildlife lovers.
“Suffolk Sound Radio’s Chloe Rivers spoke with Jimmy after the awards, and he said, ‘It feels amazing. I’m absolutely delighted, the whole team are buzzing.
“It’s a great award ceremony, and it really reflects the wide breadth of amazing places you can visit in East Anglia.
“It’s a fantastic place to live and a fantastic place to visit.'”
Jimmy added: “We have got Europe‘s largest polar bear reserve and probably the largest congregation of female polar bears anywhere in the world.
“They’ve got two huge meadow paddocks with wonderful ponds, and we blend that with lots of other animals from the Arctic region to really tell the story of the tundra – what climate change is doing and how it affects all of us.”
He continued: “Polar bears really are the poster child of the tundra and climate change, but we’ve also got Arctic foxes, reindeer, and a whole pack of Arctic wolves as well.”
Referencing his hugely popular breakfast TV show, which has been commissioned for a second series on ITV.
Jimmy said: “We’ve got a lot of exciting things for 2025, including the second series of Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast in April.
“It really showcases the best of local produce, crafts, the countryside, animals here at the wildlife park, fantastic food, cocktails, and great guests.
“It’s a really good way of getting your weekend started.”
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He added: “We documented our whole journey over the last two years of rescuing the polar bears, and we didn’t know what it was going to be at the time, but it’s now turned into a three-part, one-hour series that will be on Channel 4.
“The first will be about the polar bears, the second about the Arctic wolves, and the third will be about our lovely brown bears, Diego and Brunhilda.”
“We’ve got some very, very exciting new animals coming to but I can’t really tell you too much about it. It’s a whole new chapter for us.”
He continued: “We are just about to open applications for a fully funded PhD student with our colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University, where I’m a visiting professor.
“So, with those guys, us here at Jimmy’s Farm, and a fantastic charity called Nature Safe, we’re going to be looking into the science and protocols behind freezing butterfly eggs long-term to explore how we can preserve them for future conservation.
“If a habitat were destroyed, we could repopulate it with fertile frozen butterfly eggs that would develop into caterpillars.”
Jimmy concluded: “It’s a really interesting science, quite pioneering, and it’s great to be able to do it right here in Suffolk.
“So, we are looking for candidates, probably those who have completed a master’s or bachelor’s degree in science, who are truly passionate about cryopreservation and entomology, particularly butterflies.”
Park Manager Stevie Sheppard said “It’s amazing really, because we do the experiences so people get a chance to get up close to the animals, to learn their stories, to learn why we have them.
“We won for the polar bear experience, which is even more special.”
Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast starts this April on ITV.
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PLANS for a brand new Formula One track with a quirky name in Spain have been unveiled.
The hybrid street circuit in Madrid, which will take over the Spanish Grand Prix next year, has been given a face-lift.
The race promoters have announced the track will be named “Madring”.
The Spanish Grand Prix has been held in Montmelo, Barcelona for the last 35 years, but will move to Madrid next year.
The name of the urban circuit and the brand image were announced on Monday, merging the city’s name with “ring.”
“Ring” is a term often associated with racing circuits in the F1 world, such as in Hungaroring, Nurburgring, Hockenheimring.
A statement read: “Formula 1 circuits are typically referred to by the city or region where they are located – Monza, Imola, Interlagos, Spa, Silverstone, Miami, Las Vegas.
“However, their full official names are rarely used. For this reason, Madring aims to establish a concise and memorable identity that directly references its host city, is instantly recognisable worldwide, and requires no translation.”
Madring will have 5,474 km layout, with 20 corners and an estimated qualifying lap time of 1 minute and 32 seconds.
The aim is for a hybrid 3.4-mile circuit featuring street and non-street sections, subject to FIA approval.
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The Jarama circuit, north of the Spanish capital, already held F1 races decades ago.
The track was originally referred to as the Ifema Madrid Circuit, in reference to the exhibition centre on the same site.
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It is also very close to the airport and passes right next to Real Madrid‘s training facilities.
The circuit, however, has been met with some criticism from local residents.
Locals are arguing that noise levels will exceed the maximum levels required in the area where the race will take place.
New F1 racing regulations and a brand new team will also be introduced in the 2026 season.
F1 is due to have two races in Spain next year.
The permanent circuit outside Barcelona has one year to run on its contract after this season and is therefore expected to appear on the 2026 F1 calendar.
It has held the Spanish GP every year since it opened in 1991.
The new circuit has a 10-year deal to host F1, ensuring the Madring will remain on the calendar until at least 2035.
The promoter is reported to have paid almost £427m for the race.
IT was after Jingko Blue pulled up at Cheltenham last year that a dejected Nico do Boinville trudged back towards the weighing room.
And what made it worse? I was waiting for him.
ITV had entrusted me with collating comments from beaten riders in the Grade 1 Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle.
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It’s a section viewers enjoy. But for De Boinville there was nothing to relish at all.
Jingko Blue’s flop came on the back of an already torrid week for his trainer Nicky Henderson, who had withdrawn most of his big players from the meeting. In horse racing terms it was a disaster.
“I feel bad asking but…” I said to De Boinville.
To which he replied: “You should feel bad asking. Same story, different day”.
The jockey meant it in the nicest possible way. And his answer perfectly summed up his stable’s nightmare.
“At that point of the Festival I was pretty down in the dumps and miserable,” De Boinville recalls.
“The writing was on the wall from the first race – the Supreme – I would say. I was on Jeriko du Reponet and he pulled up. It had all started to go wrong before that, though, as Constitution Hill’s bad gallop at Kempton came prior to the meeting. He was already out. Things just weren’t flowing.”
Constitution Hill is, of course, jump racing’s superstar.
When he romped clear in the 2022 Supreme he looked like a horse from another planet. He did the same in the 2023 Champion Hurdle.
Then he was forced to miss Cheltenham last year. Some started to question his brilliance.
Some mocked those who think he might just be the best hurdler of all time.
On Tuesday he has the chance to remind us of a unique talent.
“It certainly grated with me through the week,” De Boinville continues.
“But you learn very quickly in this game that it’s all very transient (not a word all jockeys would come out with!), and that you will bounce back. You can only control the controllables. You just have to move on. It also makes you appreciate when you do have winners.”
It wasn’t just a personal frustration De Boinville felt.
More than any other major stable jockey in the UK, the man who has enjoyed huge successes on jumps heroes like Sprinter Sacre, Altior, Shishkin and Constitution Hill, as well as a Gold Cup victory on Coneygree, is an ‘all in’ dedicated rider attached to Henderson’s Seven Barrows stable.
“A bad week doesn’t just affect me, it affects the whole yard,” says de Boinville.
“That includes pool money which goes to the lads when we do well and of course our owners. It was a tough week, but then you try and salvage things and I think we did that at the end of last season when we went to Aintree and got things together again.”
A year on, and there is an almighty spring in De Boinville and Henderson’s step.
Indeed, it will be a major shock this week if I’m not talking to the man I know as Nicolai Chastel de Boinville after more than one big-race success.
“From what I’ve seen the horses have been running well on the track this season,” says De Boinville.
“They seem in good order, look great in their coats and I think we are where we want to be right now.”
On paper De Boinville has a harem of top class Grade 1 mounts.
Constitution Hill heads the cast in Tuesday’s Unibet Champion Hurdle, while he also has hotpot Jonbon in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
Then there is the potential of Lulamba in the JCB Triumph Hurdle, Jango Baie in the My Pension Expert Arkle, supplemented Joyeuse in the Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle and Lucky Place in the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle.
That’s not to mention a host of handicap possibles including the aforementioned Jeriko du Reponet and Mister Coffey in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase.
Following all sorts of issues, Constitution Hill is back after victories at Kempton and Cheltenham this term. Some think he might be better than ever.
De Boinville says: “It’s another year so you would hope he will be stronger. He’s in his prime and we are coming into this race with our eyes open and looking forward to it.
“It certainly all felt there when he won at Cheltenham last time and in his work we’ve been happy with him.
“He made a mistake at the last in the International Hurdle but that can happen in any race. I just put it to the back of my head.
“It doesn’t matter what happens in the race. He’s so straightforward. I imagine there is going to be a really strong pace – but as I have said it doesn’t matter. They can go slow or they can go quick he’s able to travel at whatever gallop.
“He’s exciting to ride and I have never jumped a hurdle better than I have done on Constitution Hill. He’s the best hurdler I have ever been on and if he comes up with the form he was in when taking the Supreme or when he won the Champion in 2023 it would take a true champion to beat him.”
Jonbon was the horse Constitution Hill stuffed in his Supreme romp, but he’s improved over fences and won 17 of his 20 races including this season’s Tingle Creek and Clarence House. Both are Grade 1s.
His three defeats, however, have come at Cheltenham.
“Jonbon is very like Constitution Hill in that he’s a very easy horse to ride,” De Boinville says.
“You can do what you like on him. I think that was proven at Aintree last year over two and a half miles where she showed he stays well. But he’s got the speed to travel well at two miles.
He’s so consistent and I’ve always thought if you are going to be consistent you can’t be winning races by long distances which he never does.
“It’s great that the field has a bit of strength in depth and Solness with be a good target to aim at although it really doesn’t matter as I can lead. It wouldn’t bother me if they dropped Solness in, which they won’t, but it makes no difference. I have no worries about him at Cheltenham.”
Henderson is set to run two exciting horses in the Grade 1 JCB Triumph, namely Lulamba and Palladium, who cost nearly £1.2million!
De Boinville said: “Lulamba felt good at Ascot. I’m very happy with him. I loved how he went to the last hurdle and pricked his ears and then scooted on clear. From what I had seen at home his Ascot win wasn’t any surprise at all. I thought he was a good horse and he is.
“I might not be on him but I certainly wouldn’t dismiss Palladium. He won at Huntingdon and the form was franked the other day by a horse he beat. I thought it was a good start. He’s schooled a lot and was bought to come and run in this race so fingers crossed he goes well.”
Lucky Place is improving all the time with wins at Ascot and Cheltenham.
“He’s a terrier of a horse and everyone at home loves him,” De Boinville says.
“This is his first time at three miles and we decided after he won at Cheltenham last time that we didn’t need to be trying him over the trip beforehand.
“He was all set to go novice chasing this year, and he has the size and scope to do that. But when he won at Ascot we changed the plans. He’s a loveable horse and I’m confident on his stamina.”
It’s a week to right the wrongs of 2024. And there is no doubt De Boinville has the ammunition to do just that.
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