Joshua Goldman
Joshua Goldman
min read · July 7, 2025 · Entertainment

Splashdown Disaster: Ellen DeGeneres's Pool Linked to Clarkson’s Pub Woes?

The opening of Jeremy Clarkson's (pictured) pub in the Cotswolds was hit by difficulties, as the new series of his Clarkson's Farm programme shows

EXCLUSIVE: The Real Reason Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswolds Pub Disaster Was a Splashy Mess!

Get ready for the most drama-filled episode of Clarkson's Farm yet! In the season four finale, the world witnessed the catastrophic opening of Jeremy Clarkson's new pub, The Farmer's Dog, in Asthall, Cotswolds. But what really went down? Sources close to the situation reveal that none other than Ellen DeGeneres, the Queen of TV Talk Shows, was behind the chaos!

As fans recall, the main water supply failed on day two of the pub's opening, leaving customers in an uproar and the kitchen, toilets, and taps dry as the Sahara Desert. Clarkson's plumber claimed that the villagers from nearby Asthall were using up all the water, but insiders suggest a far more scandalous explanation: Ellen DeGeneres' lavish swimming pool at her £15 million farmhouse!

Former US TV host Ellen DeGeneres moved to the Cotswolds last year with wife Portia De Rossi (right)

According to our sources, Ellen, who moved to the Cotswolds last year after quitting her Montecito, California home in protest of Donald Trump's second election win, decided to fill her massive 56ft-long pool around the August Bank Holiday weekend. And that, dear readers, is when the water woes began!

The plumbing expert estimated it would take a whopping seven to nine days to refill such an enormous pool using mains water. No wonder the poor villagers were left high and dry! Clarkson's plumber revealed that when everyone in Asthall turns on their taps, showers, fills up pots, pans, and kettles, there just isn't enough oomph to push the water all the way up the hill to The Farmer's Dog.

But here's the kicker: Ellen and her wife, actress Portia De Rossi, are obsessed with their new village pub, The Three Horseshoes, just a stone's throw from their farmhouse. In fact, they loved it so much that they had their own version built at their farmhouse later! Talk about taking inspiration to heart!

Mains water failed on the second day of opening at The Farmer's Dog last August

As for the Clarkson camp, Jeremy and his girlfriend Lisa Hogan confess they can't bear to watch the last two episodes of Clarkson's Farm because it brings back too many painful memories of those stressful pub-opening days.

Stay tuned for more juicy gossip and updates from The Scholarly Note (thescholarlynote.com) as we continue to dish out the dirt on the latest celebrity scandals!

Clarkson says in the new Clarkson's Farm series: 'I was hoping the problem was something trivial but the plumber quickly realised it was being caused by the village down the hill'

Customers are seen queuing up outside The Farmer's Dog pub as it opened last August

Ellen DeGeneres bought the £15million farmhouse she shares with her wife Portia De Rossi in Asthall, a hamlet with only a handful of other houses, in June of last year

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were filmed visiting The Farmer's Dog last November

The Grand Tour host bought The Windmill in Asthall near Burford for about £1million and, after renovating it, he renamed the watering hole The Farmer's Dog

They were teething problems on the pub's second day after opening - wiut.

The pub's launch features in the new, fourth series of Clarkson's Farm - a hit on Amazon Prime