Jeremy Clarkson fumes as customers 'stealing' from his pub

Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at more than 100 punters at his Farmer's Dog pub after 'extraordinary stealing' took place at the venue.

The Clarkson's Farm star, who has swapped hot rods for tractors, recently spent a cool £1 million on buying a pub in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Situated around 20 minutes away from his Diddly Squat Farm, it has become equally as popular as the farm shop for UK tourists to visit and spend a few quid.

And with the purchase of the pub - found off the A40 at the Asthall Barrow Roundabout at Burford, Oxfordshire - coinciding with filming for season four of Clarkson's Farm, we can expect to see a good thing or two about the buying process and how the pub took shape, as it was in a rather dilapidated state when Clarkson's team took over the joint.

But in revealing the true cost of running his pub, Jezza also took aim at customers who aren't making life easier for him.

In his column for The Sunday Times, the former Top Gear presenter revealed it costs him £100 a day to run the generator powering the pub and its kitchen.

Then on top of that, you're looking at £400 per week to run the patio heaters outside the pub. And on top of that, an eye-watering £27,000 a month - yes, month - is spent on parking and traffic marshals 'to keep the council off his back'.

But on top of that, Jeremy said that inside the pub, the 'theft' from customers is 'extraordinary'.

"The theft, for example, is extraordinary," he explained.

"People seem to have it in their heads that if they come in for a pint they are entitled to go home with the glass in which it was served.

"Last Sunday, 104 went missing."

Yep, people are taking the Hawkstone pint glasses home with them.

Pints aren't too unreasonable, either, priced between £5.50 and £6 depending on what tipple you're after. So no different to a major city in 2024, with the beer also being award-winning.

But the glasses are something Clarkson actually sells on his Hawkstone website at £8.50 per glass.

So instead of customers buying those 104 stolen glasses - which would have brought in £884 to the business - they cost them a nice profit plus the cost of having to replace them.

On business costs, Clarkson said: "The customers are coming. There’s no problem there. But turning their visits into a profit is nigh-on impossible."

We've no doubt the issue will feature heavily in season five of Clarkson's Farm, which we can expect some time in 2026.