Jeremy Clarkson has admitted to finding the running of a pub relentless – but one thing he didn’t expect to contend with is the extreme amount of theft he’d have to deal with.
The TV personality has disclosed all the items that get nicked by customers wanting a keepsake from the boozer featured in Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm – including a huge number of pint glasses that get taken in a single week.
The TV personality is set to return for a brand new season of the hit Prime Video show, and in the opening episode, he sheds light on these thefts, revealing that by week’s end, the pub is 400 glasses down.
Clarkson also revealed in the new season, premiering on 3 June, that cooking oil, light bulbs and urinal traps are all targeted by customers, also.
”Just last night, somebody stole £200 worth of cooking oil – and that’s not the maddest thing that gets nicked from here,” he said.
He shared that every day, someone steals a light bulb from the pub’s bathroom as well as urinal traps –a plumbing fixture that holds a small amount of water at the bottom of a urinal to create a seal in order to prevent odours.
“We’ve had to screw these down to stop them being nicked,” he said before posing the million-pound question: “Who steals a urinal trap?”
Clarkson opened his Oxfordshire watering hole, The Farmer’s Dog, in August 2024 after finding success with his now-famous, 1000-acre Diddly Squat farm and accompanying shop, which is run by the TV personality’s wife, Lisa Hogan.
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He bought the land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he decided to see if he could run it himself.
The former Top Gear presenter paid less than £1m for the pub based in Asthall, which was formerly known as The Windmill.
While he previously described running the pub as “relentless”, Clarkson appeared content in the new season of Clarkson’s Farm after successfully welcoming Irish trio The Corrs to play the pub’s first gig.
“Tonight is the full pinch pinch – we had this idea of what the pub would be like and then you look at this and you go, ‘We’ve done it – we’ve actually done it’,” he told Hogan.
Elsewhere in Clarkson’s Farm season five, Clarkson opened up about the lucky coincidence that potentially saved his life after a health scare.
Heunderwent a heart procedure in October 2024 after experiencing tightness in his chest and pins and needles in his arms – and after going to hospital, doctors told him he was maybe days away from a heart attack due to blocked arteries.
Clarkson attributed his deterioration to the “stressful” pressure of opening his pub just weeks earlier. “I’m back and not dead,” he told farm sidekick Kaleb Cooper, adding: “The grim reaper will have to wait. It was f***ing close, though.”
Clarkson’s Farm returns to Prime Video on 3 June.
