The former Top Gear star opened The Farmer's Dog in the Cotswolds last year and featured the struggle to get the venture off the ground in his Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm.

Despite its eventual success, the 65-year-old has now revealed the venue has been plagued by a number of problems, including the loss of thousands of pounds to internet fraudsters.

In his column for The Sunday Times newspaper, he wrote: "We were hacked at the Farmer’s Dog last week and swindled out of £27,000."

Clarkson used the column to discuss the various problems his team at the pub have encountered over the last year including rowdy customers, toilet problems and taxes on publicans declaring running a pub is "harder than anything. Even farming."

He wrote: "A lady came to my pub recently and after

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