Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Farm Shop will be closing for two months (Picture: GETTY / ALAMY)
Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Farm Shop is closing up for eight weeks just after the star revealed he’s had a ‘total disaster’ in the lead-up to Christmas.
The former Top Gear star, 64, opened Diddly Squat farm and shop in 2020, and it became a roaring success after the release of his Amazon farm series, Clarkson’s Farm.
The farm shop’s site has confirmed that the main Chadlington shop (Diddly Squat) has shut for 2024 and will remain shut for two months in January and February 2025.
This means that fans will only be able to visit the pop-up shop at The Farmer’s Dog which is only open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10am until 4:30pm.
It is unclear why the shop will be shut for such a long time, with the website giving no clues to fans.
Diddly Squat was open for the last time on December 29 and won’t be open again until March 1, 2025.
Clarkson’s Farm sparked a huge interest in the farm shop with fans (Picture: Amazon/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
Following the success of the farm shop, Jeremy opened the doors to his Oxfordshire pub, The Farmer’s Dog, in August this year.
In October just months after the pub’s opening, Jeremy said he was concerned he ‘won’t make money back’ after splurging £1 million.
In December, just a week ago, the TV star admitted to having a ‘total disaster’ ahead of Christmas as he said he was ‘naïve’.
‘Behind the scenes, then, everything is a total disaster,’ he said as he listed the problems he’s been facing in his column for The Times.
He then shared one incident that occurred at the farm, after one of his employees called him and ‘for several minutes made retching noises down the phone’ after ‘an accident’ in one of the outside toilets.
The Farm Shop in Chipping Norton will be shut for two months (Picture: Tim Scrivener/Shutterstock)
‘No amount of festival visits would prepare you for the horror of what had been produced at the Farmer’s Dog,’ Clarkson said.
‘It was everywhere and in such vast quantities that no ordinary plumbing or cleaning equipment would even scratch the surface. So a whole team of chemically trained hazmat engineers had to be employed. That’s a cost I’d never factored into any of my business plans.’
Jeremy also revealed that theft has become an issue at the pub, and the cost is starting to rack up – along with his other pub expenses.
‘The theft, for example, is extraordinary. 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,’ he revealed.
The glasses were later flogged on eBay by visitors who had stolen them from the pub.
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