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Daily Mirror
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Jeremy Clarkson issues apology as he shares worrying update on Diddly Squat
Clarkson's Farm series four teased in Prime Video trailer Jeremy Clarkson apologised for his "dishevelled state" during an impassioned address at Hawkstone's VIP Summer Party yesterday (July 14) in the grounds of his Farmer's Dog pub. He disclosed that farming life has proved so challenging that his trusted colleague Kaleb Cooper was compelled to miss the spectacular event entirely. Harvesting has recently commenced at Diddly Squat - and according to Jeremy, it's destined to be the "worst" on record. Kaleb's brand new combine harvester suffered a breakdown within just 15 minutes of beginning operations - and with so much work remaining, he was obliged to abandon the demonstration he'd planned to showcase a new variant of his beloved Hawkstone beverage, cider. "We got the combine fixed and then - and this is true for the first time in four months - it rained," Jeremy lamented whilst making excuses for his co-star's non-attendance. "That soaked all the oats that we were supposed to be harvesting, so I rushed over here, and he sent his apologies. He's simply waiting for the moisture levels to drop so that we can get cracking!" Jeremy Clarkson revealed there is a crisis at Diddly Squat Farm (Image: Getty) He further elaborated: "We know we're in for a shocking harvest this year - if there are any farmers here, they would tell you the same thing. Last year was the second worst recorded ever, and we think this year's going to be even worse because it just hasn't rained," reports the Express. The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host subsequently expressed gratitude to the audience for supporting British agriculture during difficult periods by purchasing Hawkstone beer, and quipped that any establishment which refused should be "set on fire". Kaleb Cooper was "missing: from the event and has been struggling with harvesting (Image: Getty) The crowd burst into fits of giggles as he joked: "If you go in a pub and they're selling Peroni, they're backing Italian farming - and if they're Italian, that's fine, but if they're not, that's just not on, and we should set fire to the place!" Despite his agricultural gripes, Jeremy Clarkson assured fans that Hawkstone beer was thriving, thanks to their unquenchable thirst for ale, saying it was going "from strength to strength". At the VIP Summer Party, Jeremy also introduced the Hawkstone Choir, described as "bona fide farmers who can genuinely sing", and presented a "banned advert" which failed to pass advertising standards. Jeremy shares a rare announcement confirming it was likely to be the worst harvest on record (Image: PA) Clarkson humorously confessed his bafflement at the ban, but the audience quickly understood why when they heard the choir's expletive-laden praise of the beer: "F*** me, it's good." The event was further enlivened by a live gig from the Wurzels, a legendary Somerset band with nearly six decades of history and chart-topping hits like Combine Harvester, The Tractor Song, and I Am A Cider Drinker. Clarkson's Farm is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Daily Record
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Jeremy Clarkson's pub has visitors 'floored' over cost of grub and a pint
A woman has taken to social media to share her experience of dining at Jeremy Clarkson's pub, The Farmer's Dog, and while she gave the food a glowing review, the prices sparked debate. One visit to Jeremy Clarkson 's pub, The Farmer's Dog, has sparked a flurry of discussion among people over the cost of its menu. Amy Robinson, 20, made the journey to what Clarkson describes as a "proper British" pub. She also documented her dining experience on TikTok, giving the grub a flawless "10/10" whilst praising its exceptional taste. However the clip, which has racked up more than 50,000 views, also drew attention to the hefty cost of eating at the venue. The Farmer's Dog, situated in Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire is a property the former Top Gear host secured for less than £1 million, formerly called The Windmill, as reported by the Mirror. Amy's review featured the pub's al fresco dining area and the elegantly presented dishes, though viewers were quick to note the pricing as they quizzed her on it. "Fancy sausage and mash was around the £20.00 mark. Drinks were around £7.00." However, one person came to the defence, observing: "You must be from Oxfordshire like me. We thought prices were normal, but people who had travelled were having a fit." Whilst certain customers considered the charges to be what some people would"expect" at a countryside pub, views among many on social media remained split. One voiced their astonishment, declaring: "The prices are insane." The website indicates that meal prices vary, with a steak pie commanding £24.00 and a gammon steak at £22.00. Drinkers may find themselves paying around £6.75 for a pint, though this price can fluctuate depending on the drink selected. While some consider the menu prices to be on the higher side, others believe the culinary experience is "worth every penny." One satisfied diner commented: "Great place, great staff, great atmosphere, great food." A different customer recounted their positive experience, adding "Had a Sunday roast here recently with my family. Food is 100% - all products locally sourced. I will be returning." Echoing the feedback, someone else added: "It's amazing here. I've been three times now." Jeremy Clarkson, known for his agricultural pursuits in Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm, has also taken a foray into the pub business with The Farmer's Dog. This new venture is featured in Season 4 of his Amazon Prime reality series, where the ex-Top Gear presenter takes on "his most ambitious project yet." The series offers an inside look at Clarkson's latest challenge as he acquires a pub to realise his Farm to Fork restaurant dream, with the official synopsis stating: "Jeremy is taking on his most ambitious project yet, setting out to buy a pub that will reignite his Farm to Fork restaurant vision. "But the road to becoming a landlord isn't exactly straightforward, and with new faces, new livestock and new machinery arriving at the farm, life at Diddly Squat is busier than ever."
Wales Online
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
I ate at Jeremy Clarkson's pub 90 minutes from Wales — 1 thing I wish I'd known before going
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info I love Clarkson's Farm. This has very much come as a shock to me, given I'm one of those annoying people whose default starting position on anything popular is to dislike it. But the Amazon Prime Video series is a joy. It's funny, sad, entertaining and informative but I think what I love the most is how passionate the show's biggest star is about farming and all the highs and lows that come it. There have been four series of Clarkson's Farm so far, and there's a fifth in the works. A major theme of the first three series was Clarkson's attempt to open a restaurant on Diddly Squat Farm so he could sell the meat he rears and veg he grows (as well as that of surrounding farms). But the council (and some of his neighbours) are having none of it, so Clarkson has to give up on that ambition and "thought instead of building a restaurant we would buy a pub". The result is The Farmer's Dog about 10 miles south of the farm on the side of the A40 as it winds through the Oxfordshire countryside. It's about a 90-minute drive from Cardiff and eastern Wales, a pretty easy drive up the M4 and M5 motorways. I booked a table here having watched the first three series and was so excited to get one for Sunday lunch (I also went to Clarkson's farm shop but took one look and left). But because I hadn't yet watched series four of Clarkson's Farm, which focuses on his attempts to buy and open the new pub, I was missing a big chunk of its story. And I wish I'd known about it before setting off — it's colourful. With Clarkson's heart set on the pub, which used to be known as The Windmill, and the five acres or so around it, for which he reportedly paid "less than £1 million", he discovered it used to be a "dogging" site. In one episode, Clarkson is left with his head in his hands when his lawyer breaks this news to him on the phone and describes how "we have happened across some quite interesting photographs which capture... certain goings on". (Image: Jeremy Clarkson) These photographs concerned the public toilets that were once on the site, where they also learned that holes had been drilled between cubicles ("I don't think that was to improve ventilation", says the lawyer). Clarkson heads back to the pub after the call and uncovers further evidence for himself, including a pair or black knickers stuffed in a tree and a condom wrapper. It was seemingly an open secret in the area. A further headache came from the fact that a large part of the site was designated a public picnic area that the pub's owner could not refuse access to. This made the pub's story even richer and I valued all the more the effort that went into turning it into what it is now and all the obstacles overcome in the process. What is the Farmer's Dog pub really like? One thing that really seemed to annoy council officials and some neighbours of Clarkson's original farm shop was the huge number of people visiting, clogging up the surrounding roads and parking on grass verges. So I was expecting it to be busy. But I wasn't expecting this. It was bigger than the Eisteddfod. There was a full-blown security and parking operation guiding arrivals into an enormous adjacent field with hundreds, if not thousands, of cars already parked in it. Visitors streamed like ants in formation between car park and pub and I heard one utter a stunned "bloody hell!" I'd naively thought that, given I had got a lunch reservation fairly easily a few weeks earlier on the pub website, it would be a quiet affair. After all, only so many people can fit in a pub, right? Wrong. Oh, so wrong. The first signs that we were not just out at the average local pub for Sunday lunch came a few hundred yards from our destination when the queues of cars and motorbikes started. Stewards in high-vis jackets directed us to a nearby field where, despite the numbers, we got a parking space easily (the queues on the road were short-lived too, to be fair). Once parked, it was a short walk across the road to the pub, surely the most popular in the country. (Image: Emma Trimble / SWNS) There were people everywhere. Dozens waited in line to get into the pub (you don't need to queue if you have a reservation and I was impressed that there was a staff member dedicated to finding those of us who did and ushering us to the front). Presumably, those queuing without a reservation were doing so in the hope of nabbing a table, a pint or a quick photo. We were an hour early for lunch so wandered around the back of the pub to explore the large shop, outdoor bar and huge beer garden. There were thousands of people here, sitting in the sunshine on wooden benches or on the grass, enjoying a pint of Clarkson's own Hawkstone beer and the gorgeous views out over the Cotswolds farmland that the man himself is so taken with. The shop sells the beer (lager, stout, IPA and cider) in crates and gift packs, as well as jams, marmalades, honey, candles, branded clothes and there's a butcher too. I came away with a crate of lager (£28 for 12 bottles) and a £12 jar of honey made from the bees on Diddly Squat Farm. Sunday lunch in The Farmer's Dog — is it worth it? A few minutes before our 1pm lunch reservation, we headed back to the pub entrance and were quickly directed to head inside and look for a man called John ("he looks like me but he's bald and he loves Welsh people"). Bald man located easily enough, he showed us to our table, possibly the best in the pub, tucked away on its own in a little corner right by the glass doors that opened out on to the large outside terrace. So not only did we have a view of the whole of the inside, we got the breeze and the sunlight of the outdoors too. It couldn't have been better. (Image: PA) Much like Clarkson does on his popular Amazon Prime show (I was now starting to realise just how big it is), the pub is very keen to show off its credentials as a supporter of local farms. A blackboard on the wall named local farmers Vanessa Hartley and Nick Sinden, as well as Rectory Farm, as sources. We ordered a pint of the Hawkstone Black stout (£7) and a half of Hawkstone lager (£3.50). They're great drinks and we sat and waited for our food by watching staff move purposefully through the busy pub, carrying plates loaded up with generous and delicious-looking Sunday roasts and stepping over the odd dog lying at their owners' feet. There was a pianist playing a grand piano by the front door, a permanent queue at the bar for a pint and a feelgood buzz running through the whole place — everyone just seemed thrilled to be here, me included. My starter of cold-smoked Bibury trout (£11.50) was fantastic — generous, thickly-sliced trout packed with flavour and possibly better than any smoked salmon I've ever had. I'd been to the Bibury trout farm a short drive away two days earlier, which made it all taste even better somehow, as did the accompanying horseradish cream and watercress salad. I went for the two-meat main course with beef and pork (£26), which were the only two meat options. It came with roasted whole potatoes, roasted carrots and parsnips, spring greens, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pudding and gravy made from the stout. It's hard to distinguish one well-made Sunday roast from another so I won't try too hard. This one was generous, tasty and largely faultless (I could probably have done with a drop more of the delicious gravy). You could stick with one meat for £2 less and there was a vegetarian option of Wye Valley asparagus with pea pearl barley and a poached egg. Vegans didn't seem to be catered for, which may or may not be on purpose. We were too full for pudding but we did see an Eton mess (£10.50) and poached rhubarb crumble cake with Cotswolds ice cream (£10.50) being carried past. Both looked great. We were pretty much done with our food within the hour and the bill for two main courses, one starter and two drinks came to £80 (including service). Before leaving, I just wanted to soak in a bit more of the venue so took a look upstairs (also full, of course) and spotted the full-size chrome-painted tractor hanging from the ceiling above the pianist, which I'd somehow managed to miss on the way in. I later learned that it had been chromed by none other than Richard Hammond, Clarkson's Top Gear and Grand Tour co-presenter who now runs a car restoration business in Herefordshire. Final thoughts Jeremy Clarkson and Amazon Prime have created a phenomenon. But don't let that put you off. The queue for the car park was no more than a few minutes at most and that was the only waiting we did. Thanks to our reservation, we were straight in through the front door and we didn't need to queue at the shop for our beer and honey either. My over-riding impression of the huge crowd was how happy we all were to be there. If you wanted a beer (inside or outside) or something from the butcher, you should probably expect a queue, but that's pretty much it. I felt a bit guilty about being one of the hordes of people taking over what was presumably a quiet and anonymous part of Oxfordshire 12 months ago (apart from the doggers) but reports suggest most people in the area are happy to have the pub so consider me guilt-free now. I'm glad I went and will remember it for a long time. Pubs aren't only about food, they're about how they make you feel. And I loved every second of this trip. If it had been hammering down with rain, I might feel differently — but being from Wales, I should probably be used to that.
Metro
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Ellen DeGeneres shares rare look at sprawling UK home after leaving US
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Ellen DeGeneres has given fans a glimpse into her sprawling Cotswolds home after moving to England at the end of 2024. When Donald Trump was set to be re-elected as US President at the end of 2024, many A-listers claimed they'd be moving out of the US. Ellen and her wife, Portia de Rossi, made the leap and ditched their life in Montecito and set themselves up in the ultra-luxury English countryside, the Cotswolds. The Wrap reported that the duo told friends that Trump's coming to power was the 'primary motivation' and that they planned to 'never return' to the US. Since their move, the pair has shared snaps of their slower lifestyle, which focuses on their chickens, sheep, and gardening adventures. In a sweet video shared on social media, the couple revealed that some of their sheep have made a habit of entering their home and making themselves comfortable. 'Our sheep keep coming inside. To be fair, we do have a piece of furniture that looks like a sheep, but that one doesn't try to eat our rugs,' Ellen captioned the video. In the video Portia could be heard encouraging the sheep to plod back through the kitchen doors to the garden, and not make themselves too comfortable in their home. The compiled videos of the sheep wandering into their home showed off different angles of their sunlit property with impressive glass doors facing the incredible view of their land. The home had various rugs laid upon the concrete floor and an industrial style throughout, which included the black metal-framed bifold doors. This contrasted with the country-style brown leather of the sofas and armchairs and patterned warm-toned rugs. On social media, the star has shared videos of the sheep on her 43-acre property where her 'farmhouse' is situated, but has rarely let fans see inside this home. Many of her videos detail the sheep managing to escape from their pen and end up wherever they fancy, such as in the garden, or even evicting the chickens from their coop. More Trending Other video snapshots on their property reveal that the couple also has a lake, swimming pool, and expansive fields surrounding their country home. Since settling into the country lifestyle, the star has even been spotted making friends with the A-list locals. A video shared by Jeremy Clarkson's girlfriend Lisa Hogan on Instagram, showed that Ellen and Portia were singing along and enjoying their drinks, sitting by the balcony of The Farmer's Dog, Clarkson's latest venture. '@thecorrsofficial thanks for the acoustic check & for swooping by on your night off the tour! Trilled to confirm @thefarmersdogpub sounds great. @jeremyclarkson1 @natalie_imbruglia @jamesblunt @ellendegeneres @portiaderossi,' Lisa captioned the post on social media. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Donald Trump stuns Juventus players with dig at transgender footballers MORE: US 'Doomsday Plane' spotted near DC: Everything you need to know about the Boeing E-4B MORE: R Kelly begged for Trump's help before 'murder plot' that saw him overdose in prison
The Sun
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Where is Clarkson's Farm and can I visit Diddly Squat farm shop and the Farmer's Dog pub?
JEREMY Clarkson leads the rest of the Diddly Squat gang as the show returns for its fourth season. While Diddly Squat Farm and Farm Shop have been somewhat of an attraction since the show's debut in 2021, the unveiling of Jeremy's new pub has made a lot of people wonder if they can visit. 3 Where is Clarkson's Farm and can I visit Diddly Squat Farm Shop and the Farmer's Dog pub? Diddly Squat Farm Shop and the Farmer's Dog are both open to visitors! After a brief closure to the Farm Shop earlier this year, fans can now visit again and make a trip to the idyllic Cotswolds. The exact location of the Farm Shop is 5-12 Chipping Norton Road, Chadlington, Chipping Norton, OX7 3PE. Once there, fans will be able to experience some of the key locations featured on the Clarkson -fronted show. While visiting the site, many will hope to catch a glimpse of the rising stars of the show, including fan favourite Kaleb Cooper, straight-man and farm management consultant Charlie Ireland, the humorous Gerald Cooper, plus farm shop front-woman and Jezza's partner, Lisa Hogan. The iconic shop has become a public attraction since it opened, with thousands flocking to it each year, much to the dislike of some of the community. For visitors coming from outside the Cotswolds, the trip can take two hours from central London by car, or two and a half hours by public transport. If fans are staying nearby there is the X9 bus from The Bell Hotel in Charlbury that will take them straight past the 1000 acres site and near the Farm Shop. 3 Previously, the farm also had a functioning restaurant on location called The Big View Café, but this was shut down due to excessive traffic. In response, this series of the hit show followed the former Top Gear presenter's trials and tribulations of trying to open a pub. Viewers watched each episode as Jeremy struggled to find a suitable pub for his new venture, despite the sheer number of venues available. Finally, Jeremy found a pub, which was formerly known as the Windmill, and renovated and renamed it to the Farmer's Dog. The latest weapon in Jeremy's farming armoury is located off the Asthall Barrow Roundabout, Burford OX18 4HJ. As it is a working farm, visitors are best to stick to the Farm Shop and Pub - so do not expect to see Jeremy riding around in his infamous Lamborghini tractor. 3 What can you expect at The Farmer's Dog? The pub, which champions British farmers, is sure to be on top of fans' bucket lists. Jeremy's main reason behind opening the pub was that he wanted everything to come from British farms within a certain radius, so don't expect to see any Heinz ketchup on offer. Instead, visitors to the pub can treat themselves to the steak pie, ham hock terrine, rhubarb crumble, and a wide range of other menu items, all knowing that it has come from local farmers. Since the pub opened, it has been extremely busy, and after the show aired, its popularity has soared. And so, for fans hoping to pay a visit in the near future, you may have to wait a while. Bookings for the new Oxfordshire landmark open each month but get snapped up fast, with forums set up on social media helping fans get their chance to visit.
