Clarkson's here and it's like the second coming of Christ! TOM PARKER BOWLES visits the former Top Gear presenter's new Cotswolds pub and finds it's become a phenomenon
Daily MailThe queue starts just before the roundabout and crawls on for a good few hundred metres, snaking down a small country road. Once famed for his crash-bang-wallop school of Top Gear tomfoolery, he’s now perhaps best known as a farmer,he writes ‘We really had no idea that the show would be as big,’ says his girlfriend, Lisa Hogan, who is also the culinary and creative force behind Diddly Squat Farm shop, a few miles down the road. The pub only opened a month back, and it’s not like Clarkson and Lisa are seasoned restaurateurs. Ours is £100 from Cornwall.’ Sometimes, I feel like I’m in a bonkers Cotswold theme park, Clarkson World, complete with gift shop selling Diddly Squat T-shirts, caps, key rings and chopping boards. As we walk towards Hops And Chops, the adoring crowds parting for Jeremy ‘Moses’ Clarkson, he admits that ‘most of the people here don’t know anything about my car thing.
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