From Top Gear… to top shear? Jeremy Clarkson looks sheepish as he brings a pet lamb to a rural pub for a post-lockdown pint
Jeremy Clarkson took a rural pub’s pets allowed policy to another level on Tuesday after turning up for an alfresco pint with a lamb.
The former Top Gear presenter, 61, wasn’t sheepish in taking advantage of Britain’s relaxed lockdown policies, with public houses now allowed to serve drinks outdoors for the first time since December.
But he raised eyebrows after turning up at a leafy Cotswold’s pub with the black and white lamb, and later shared an image of himself accompanied by the unlikely pet on social media.
Top shear: Jeremy Clarkson took a rural pub’s pets allowed policy to another level on Tuesday after turning up for an alfresco pint with a lamb
Holding the lamb to his chest, Clarkson pictured himself seated in front of other thirsty, socially distanced patrons and a somewhat perplexed looking pet Labrador.
Captioning the image, he wrote: ‘Surprised dog at the pub yesterday.’
The presenter runs the Diddly Squat Farm Shop in Cotswold’s village Chipping Norton with partner Lisa Hogan, 46, after launching the local produce emporium in 2020.
Business: The presenter runs the Diddly Squat Farm Shop in Cotswold’s village Chipping Norton with partner Lisa Hogan, 46, after launching the local produce emporium in 2020
Speaking in January, Clarkson revealed that he battled COVID-19 over Christmas and feared that he would ‘die alone’ from it.
The presenter wrote about his health scare for The Sunday Times, sharing that he began to feel unwell four days before the annual holiday.
Clarkson said that after Googling his symptoms, he eventually got tested for coronavirus where it came back positive.
Worry: Speaking in January, Clarkson revealed that he battled COVID-19 over Christmas and feared that he would ‘die alone’ from it
‘The doctor was very clear,’ the presenter recalled in his column. ‘I’d feel under the weather for between five and 14 days and then I’d either get better or I’d have to go to hospital.
‘Where, because I am 60 and fat, and because I’ve smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I’d probably die, on my own, in a lonely plastic tent.’
Detailing what happened, Clarkson explained he woke up drenched in sweat, suffered a persistent dry cough and went into isolation.
After batting off questions from friends about who could have given him the virus, Clarkson explained that he took himself off to bed with ‘the new Don Winslow book and a bag of kale’ and waited ‘for the Grim Reaper to pop his head round the door’.
Worried: ‘I am 60 and fat, and because I’ve smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I’d probably die, on my own, in a lonely plastic tent,’ he told the Sunday Times
The Grand Tour host went on to explain that he was isolating in a small cottage with his girlfriend and her children, and felt unclear about who he was allowed to have any contact with, adding: ‘I’m not going to lie — it was quite scary!’
He went on: ‘With every illness I’ve had, there has always been a sense that medicine and time would eventually ride to the rescue, but with COVID-19 you have to lie there, on your own, knowing that medicine is not on its way and that time is your worst enemy.’
Jeremy’s children – Emily, Katya and Finlo, from his marriage to second wife Frances Cain – visited him on Christmas Day for 40 minutes and shared a glass of champagne with him at a distance in the garden while he wore a ‘full body mask’ in accordance with Tier 2 rules.