Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat shop suffers blow after pub ‘loses fortune’
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Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat 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.
![[No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amazon/Everett/REX/Shutterstock (14210324o) CLARKSON'S FARM, Jeremy Clarkson, (Season 1, aired June 10 & 11, 2021). photo: ?Amazon / Courtesy Everett Collection Everett Collection - 2021]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_217478685-3db8-e1735600043799.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
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.
![[Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tim Scrivener/Shutterstock (13998269q) Diddly squat farm-shop Diddly Squat Farm Shop, Chipping Norton, UK - 03 Jul 2023]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_209407519-41b0-e1735600204701.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
It is unclear why the shop will be shut for such a long time, though appears to happen every year as a routine closure. Diddly Squat was open for the last time on December 29 and won’t be open again until March 1, 2025. 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. And 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.
