Young farmer breaks down over IHT on Big Brother
12th November 2025
Big Brother contestant Cameron Kinch broke down in tears over the government’s changes to inheritance tax, as he made it to the final.
In last night’s episode, young farmer Cameron Kinch, 22, said if he wins the £100,000 prize, he will use it to pay his family farm’s inheritance tax bill.
After his housemates secured his place in the Big Brother final this Friday, Cameron admitted the family farm tax keeps him up at night.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced changes to agricultural and business property relief in last year’s Autumn Budget, meaning there will be an effective 20% inheritance tax on farms valued over £1m from April 2026.
Cameron said: “If I was to win [Big Brother], I’d be using the money to possibly pay for family farm tax more so than anything else. I lose sleep over what it might mean for the farm. It’s a really s**t position that a farmer has to come on here to try and win 100 grand to save their farm, it’s not fair.”
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The Taunton farmer broke down in tears, adding: “The farm is your lifestyle. It’s your way of life. You are on the farm 24/7 but you do it to hand it over to your kids, you do it to hand over to your grandkids, it’s your legacy.
“When the best advice has been to do something that’s now going to cripple us, to sell off land which will make your farm less productive. Plus, every field means something to you, especially if your farm has been in your family for generations and generations.
“You work on that farm day and night. It’s your blood and soul. It’s raising your kids on that farm, and when you’re quite often working for b****r all actual money, but you have that one farm and it’s your livelihood. When your dad’s worked for years and years and years, to think it might be whacked away from him at the very last hurdle.”
In a Q&A on the launch of this series of the show, Cameron said he wanted to fly the flag for British farming, and thought he would be the only “country bumpkin-esque figure” on the show.
Big Brother’s final will take place on Friday 14th November.
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