Jeremy Clarkson slams Michaela Strachan flying from South Africa for BBC show

Jeremy Clarkson has called out the journeys Michaela Strachan makes from South Africa to film BBC’s Autumnwatch, claiming it would be ‘much cooler’ for the planet if she didn’t make the long-haul flights.

For a decade, Strachan, 56, has been seen on TV presenting programmes including Autumnwatch and Springwatch on the BBC.

The presenter, who was also a regular host of Countryfile, splits her time between the UK and South Africa, zooming back to film nature programmes for the broadcaster.

However, she’s come under fire from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host Clarkson, writing in his column about how the ‘BBC global warming batton’ has been ‘passed to Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan’ from Sir David Attenborough.

‘On Thursday, Chris delivered a lecture about moths and how they are affected by warmer weather,’ the 62-year-old wrote in The Sun.