Former Components 1 driver David Coulthard has revealed he as soon as provided his struggling south-west London pub to former High Gear host Jeremy Clarkson freed from cost in an try to salvage the enterprise.
Talking throughout a drive-along interview with presenter Jodie Kidd, the previous Williams, McLaren and Purple Bull driver defined how he approached Clarkson when he could not get the pub, The Brown Canine, to work as a enterprise.
“I purchased a pub in Barnes which simply did not work,” Coulthard mentioned. “It was The Brown Canine, and we could not make it work.”
Confronted with an unviable enterprise, Coulthard shared his proposal with Clarkson roughly two years in the past. He provided the TV host an entire switch of the property’s title deeds in trade for a share of any future income.
“I really provided it to Jeremy Clarkson,” Coulthard defined. “I mentioned, ‘Jeremy, I am going to provide the pub. It is yours, title deeds, but when and whenever you earn cash, you begin chopping us in.'”
The deal didn’t come to fruition, although, as a result of the pub was not ideally positioned for Clarkson. The previous Grand Tour host and star of Clarkson’s Farm has since opened his personal pub, The Farmer’s Canine, in Oxfordshire.
David Coulthard
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“I feel it was simply too removed from the place he lives to make it wise,” Coulthard added. “It is a tough enterprise.”
Since his step away from internet hosting The Grand Tour and High Gear alongside Richard Hammond and James Could, Clarkson has expanded his enterprise portfolio. He owns and operates a number of intertwined agricultural and hospitality companies, primarily within the Cotswolds.
He owns Diddly Squat Farm, as seen on Clarkson’s Farm, which he operates alongside the Diddly Squat Farm Store. He additionally based Hawkstone, an alcohol model that produces premium lagers, IPAs and ciders utilizing barley sourced from British farmers, in addition to from his personal harvests.
Clarkson additionally owns The Farmer’s Canine, which is a conventional British pub.
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