JEREMY Clarkson has revealed the many A-listers that have supported him with the launch of his brand new pub.
The Grand Tour star has officially thrown open the doors to his £1million pub The Farmer’s Dog, close to his farm in Oxfordshire.
While many of the locals have been queuing up to get their hands on a pint from Jezza’s pub, there have been more than just a handful celebs spotted nipping in for a quick drink.
Speaking to The Sun, Jeremy revealed famous faces including David Beckham and Simon Cowell have backed him in his pub launch.
Jeremy told us: “I see Amanda Holden in the pub from time to time, she lives very nearby.
“Simon Cowell, I saw at a party the other day, and Beckham came round once. I put a picture of him with Gerald on Instagram.
“I think he was just looking for a house in the area and he figured I’d lived there a long time. I think he’s lovely.”
Elsewhere, another A-list name whose popped in for a visit is actually working on a secret project with Jeremy’s girlfriend, Lisa Hogan.
Jeremy revealed: “Prue Leith came round the other day on the biggest motorcycle I’ve ever seen.
“She lives just down the road. She’s doing something with Lisa at the moment.”
However, the star did not spill any further details on what the secret project is that is keeping Lisa and Prue busy with one another.
Although the boozer has turned out to be a success, Jeremy admitted that it had been more hard work than he anticipated.
He said: “Opening a pub, that’s proven to be much more time consuming, because it turns out I know nothing about running a pub.
“You know, on a car show, I’m pretty good at knowing that you can’t do that, that way, or that way. On the farm, I had Kaleb to tell me what to do.
“In the pub, I’ve got literally no idea what I’m doing, all of the time. So that’s a bit of a nightmare.”
In setting up the pub he encountered all sorts of surprising problems, like a lack of basic utilities to the property, or the absence of a defibrillator behind the bar.
He had to spend thousands installing a metal girder across the dining room when he decided to suspend a tractor from the ceiling.
And in the very beginning he also had to deal with the fact that the pub was once a haunt for doggers – something brought home to him when he found some underwear strewn in the undergrowth.
Jeremy said: “It was a very famous dogging site. It was gentleman usually, who stopped off there once it had gone dark to do whatever it is gentlemen in woods do at night.
“So I was a bit surprised to find a G-string there, because it suggested it had become more inclusive.
“Alan the Builder, who features in the show, he’s very local to there he was very aware, although he is keen to point out he never visited himself.”
Jeremy is also keen to point out that the immediate area’s former life as an illicit liaison point is now firmly in the past, adding: “I’ve got CCTV now, so I can check it up on my phone.”
