No wonder, then, the BBC is reluctant to spell out the exact deal it has struck to remove Clarkson from their Top Gear joint venture. However, on Twitter, Clarkson chose to describe these maths as "seriously wrong" and the word is that it would be fairer to talk about a lower seven-figure number.
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Arguably it already has as the BBC won't say how much it has paid to buy out the Top Gear motormouth from his share of the profits of Top Gear's commercial activities.īut given that the business generated £15m in pre-tax profits in the last year for which full figures are available, at a first glance it might be speculated that a 30% share could be worth as much as £10m, or even £15m.
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Get the stories that get you talking - sign up to the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire daily newsletter today right here.J eremy Clarkson's success was in danger of becoming embarrassing for the BBC. The Cotswold lager may boast it's "Hard to make - easy to drink" but Clarkson's name on it will ensure that it will be even easier to sell. "I don't mind not being liked because it's not really me and the people who think it is aren't very bright." "It's like meeting Robert Downey Jr and saying: 'Oh, you're not like Iron Man at all!' Or Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining or Freddy Krueger.
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"The man you see on TV is a caricature," he says. I made £144 profit in my first year and that was pretty emotional for me."įarmers believe he has done more for their industry in six months than BBC's Countryfile has in ten years and he prefers the farming persona. Not the farm shop or the brewery or the restaurant but the actual farm. My thousand acres of Cotswolds land is worth £15-30 million so I'd make more selling it and investing in emerging markets.
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"I have enough money to eat for a thousand years. "People say I'm not emotional but the whole reason I'm doing this is emotional," he told The Times. He says he could make more investing his money elsewhere but wants to ensure the beautiful, Cotswolds landscape will survive. "I had to do all the growing, I had to take all the risk, I had to fertilise it and spray it and look after it, and then somebody just picks it up in a lorry and then adds £375 to the price? ," he told reporters at the launch. In true Clarkson style, he wants to make some changes to the status quo and also called a meeting of Cotswold farmers to buy a €380,000 malting machine so they can cut out the middle man.Ĭlarkson says he sells his barley for £205 per ton to a maltser who he says carried out a process that could be done with a "a couple of decent hairdryers" before selling it to a brewery for £580 per ton. "But one of my partners in the enterprise is an important London ad man, who said that McFace didn’t conjure up quite the premium image. In his regular column for the Sunday Times Clarkson joked that he originally didn't want to to name his Hawkstone premium brew after a neolithic standing stone in the Cotswolds. " But launch your own beer? That's got to be any man's crowning achievement, hasn't it "Anyone can have a child, can't they?, " explained Clarkson when asked about the attraction.
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"Most men my age are playing golf or messing about with home-brew so why shouldn't I, he told the Times at the launch of the new lager.Īlso investing in the venture are advertising man Johnny Hornby, the half-brother of novelist Nick, and Hugh van Cutsem, a childhood friend of both Prince Harry and Prince William. Now it seems the already popular tours of the Bourton-on-the-Water brewery could become a 'must see' destination for Clarkson fans who currently flock from all over the country to Diddly Squat farm shop which is 12 miles away in Chadlington.Īccording to The Times 61-year-old has actually bought a "significant stake" in the brewery started by Emma and Richard Keene 17 years ago when they boasted their brews were the "best in the wold". Hours after the launch, Hawkstone was outselling the likes of Stella Artois and Budwiser on Amazon even though it costs over £8 a litre. Read more: Richard Hammond causes triple car 'carnage' in Grand Tour trailer "My careers teacher told me I couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery but look. The former Top Gear presenter and his celebrity friends have invested in the Cotswold Brewing Company to turn his home-grown barley into a vegan beer sold at the farm. Jeremy Clarkson had a dig at his old careers teacher in toasting a buy-in to the Gloucestershire micro brewery he hopes to make as popular as Diddly Squat Farm.