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.
Masterchef’s Shivi Ramoutar co-hosts the lively breakfast show with Jimmy[/caption]
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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- Crisps and chocolate
- Cheese and chocolate
- Crisps in jam sandwich
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- Cheese and bananas
- Apples with salt and pepper
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- Popcorn and hot sauce
- Tuna and marmite
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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’s Farm and Wildlife centre won a coveted Tourism award for their polar bear experience[/caption]
Shivi was a semi finalist on the much loved cooking show MasterChef[/caption]
Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast starts this April on ITV.
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