Jeremy Clarkson reveals his latest project worlds away from motoring just weeks after emotional The Grand Tour finale
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed his latest project which is worlds away from motoring, just a few weeks after his emotional The Grand Tour finale.
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed his latest project which is worlds away from motoring, just a few weeks after his emotional The Grand Tour finale.
Clarkson, 64, brought his long-standing TV partnership with his fellow petrol-heads Richard Hammond and James May to an end last month.
During the final episode, they boarded a boozy boat full of larger, vodka, gin and whiskey.
However, the veteran TV presenter doesnt intend to sit around twiddling his fingers, as hes kept himself busy with his Diddly Squat farm, Clarksons Farm on Amazon, and the opening of his new pub The Farmers Dog pub.
Now hes unveiled a new project - a new book called Diddly Squat Home to Roost.
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed his latest project which is worlds away from motoring, just a few weeks after his emotional The Grand Tour finale
Hes unveiled a new project - a new book called Diddly Squat Home to Roost
The final ever episode saw the trio traverse the width of Zimbabwe in three cars, all unfit for the task, as they say goodbye on a high
Clarkson said the trio used a spare third of a cargo plane for moving all their gear to store beer
Posting a video on Instagram, he said: Ive done a thing. Its a copy of my new book. I thought it would be a good idea to read you an excerpt from it and give you a flavour of what you can expect: But what if you want some bread.
Diddly Squat Home to Roost. Out on October 24th but you can pre-order it now.
One fan joked in the comments: Why did you read from the book? You spoiled it, and now I know everything about it!
The level of genius involved with this book, another added.
A third said: I do want some bread, what a coincidence. I’ll have to buy the book now.
His co-star Richard Hammond likewise revealed he already had something new in the pipeline with his restoration company, The Smallest Cog.
Sharing a photo to Instagram, Richard wrote: Its an end of a era. BUT the start of something exciting, we dont just have 1 but 2 of the latest The Grand Tour cars!
We are so excited to start work on these icons, keeping their special memories but getting them back to a usable working order to be enjoyed.
Richard founded The Smallest Cog in 2021, with the company featuring in his Discovery+ series Richard Hammonds Workshop.
Last month, he said he was getting ready to wake up and cry every day as he prepared to bid goodbye to his partnership with Jeremy and James.
Speaking on This Morning ahead of the final episode, Richard admitted he was struggling to get his head around the end.
Joining hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard, he recalled his career on Top Gear and said: It went berserk and we didnt know it would go out of control. It feels really weird I cant get my head round it.
Ive been doing this for 22 years because of that partnership. Ill be forever grateful to Jeremy and James.
He continued: Its not sunk in yet. I reckon six months from now Ill wake up every morning and cry.
The Grand Tour: One for the Road, which launched September 13 on Prime Video, concluded the former Top Gear co-hosts 21 year partnership
Richard Hammond wasted no time in announcing an exciting new project after his Amazon Prime show with Jeremy Clarkson and James May ended
When I got the job, I was 31, I burst out crying when they called. I said to my wife, this is going to change everything, and it did.
For their last adventure, viewers saw Jeremy, Richard, and James ignore Mr Wilmans instructions and head to Zimbabwe in three cars theyve always wanted to own.
The veteran TV presenter made the comments at a Q&A after a premiere screening of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, which looks set to be the last ever motoring programme hosted by the trio. The ticket-only screening took place at the Who Wants to be A Millionaire hosts new pub The Farmers Dog in the Cotswolds on Friday night.
During the Q&A, Clarkson told the crowd how he and his co-stars boarded boats, carrying their cars across Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, and enjoyed the bundles of booze on board.
Clarkson said: Hopefully nobody will notice that at the end of that lake crossing all of that drink had gone.
A woman in the crowd shouted: No, we did notice!, to which he replied Did you then notice we set off driving the next day?
I am duty-bound to tell you there was a three-day gap between arriving and setting off - but there wasnt, he added.
In the episode, Hammond said to Clarkson, Youve bought a bar! and described the boat as a floating drinks cabinet.
More than 400 people waited hours to be the first to enter Clarksons new pub
A board placed outside The Farmers Dog stating the everything inside Clarksons new pub is grown and raised in Great Britain
As they set off across the river, Clarkson announced: HMS S***-faced is underway!.
He later cracked open a lager and told viewers, Weve done some daft things in out time, but Im really enjoying this one. Im sailing a bar with a Lancia on it and Ive got a lot of drink to get through.
As the trio became more intoxicated, Clarksons speech began to slur as he said: Ive got three quarters of a bottle of vodka, half a bottle of gin, no, no, thats not gin. What is that? This is a blended brandy and I also have a blended whiskey.
He also claimed to have filled a third of a cargo plane with beer after failing to fill it with crew and filming equipment.
The former Top Gear presenter has also drawn in huge crowds to his new pub in Asthall, Oxfordshire, which opened its doors on August 23.
The pub seeks to support British farmers by using only local produce - for everything from meat and beers to salt and pepper.
However, this has left the former Top Gear presenter in a bit of a pickle as he quickly discovered the significantly higher costs for home-grown products. For example an imported kilo of black pepper costs £10 but the British alternative costs ten times more.
The TV star said he hoped to make a success of The Farmers Dog but added using only British produce meant that profit margins would be much lower.
He said using pork from his Diddly Squat farm would cost 0.74p to turn into sausage to be sold at the pub.
But if he used imported pig meat it would be 0.18p.
It costs us 0.74p to get a sausage into here, but if I buy imported pig meat it is 0.18. There is something wrong with the food system in this country,.
As well as his financial woes, Clarkson revealed he has created a VIP bar at the pub, but it is just for farmers.
The 64-year-old former Top Gear presenter said that only agricultural workers were allowed in the upstairs bar at his boozer, called The Farmers Dog.
Despite his admission that his latest venture is losing him a huge amount of money, punters visiting the venue seem largely impressed with their experience.
Posting a review online, TikTok user Alice Griggs wrote: It was really cool. Everything was provided by British farmers so thats why theres no ketchup or Coca-Cola because you cant get that from a British source.
