Jeremy Clarkson’s new season of Clarkson’s Farm has cut several celebrity guests from the pub knees-up that marked the first gig at The Farmer’s Dog, leaving viewers with the band but not the famous faces in the crowd. The second episode shows The Corrs performing at Clarkson’s Oxfordshire boozer, yet Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Natalie Imbruglia and James Blunt do not appear in the finished edit.
The omission matters now because season five has just reached viewers, and the pub scene was one of the season’s most publicized moments. Clarkson opened The Farmer’s Dog in August 2024 and booked The Corrs for the first show there a few months later, turning the night into a local spectacle that was clearly meant to capture the feeling of a dream finally working in real life.
Clarkson said the evening was “the full pinch pinch,” adding that he and others had imagined what the pub would be like and could then see it had become real. That reaction fits the scale of the night: DeGeneres and de Rossi were invited by Clarkson and his girlfriend, Lisa Hogan, while Imbruglia and Blunt were also watching from a balcony overlooking the stage. Their attendance was not hidden at the time. The pair shared footage from the event on social media, and those videos later disappeared from their pages.
That is where the edit becomes more noticeable. The gig was built around the idea of a packed first night at Clarkson’s pub, with recognizable guests part of the buzz around the venue, but the final episode leaves them out without explanation. The result is a cleaner, more ordinary-looking crowd scene than the one that was actually posted online when the night happened.
Clarkson has previously described running the pub as “relentless,” and he has also spoken about bizarre items being stolen from the boozer. But the bigger issue in this episode is simpler: a celebration that was meant to show The Farmer’s Dog at full tilt now raises a question about who gets left on the cutting-room floor, and why.
For now, the answer is that the celebrities were there, the cameras were rolling, and the broadcast version chose not to keep them. The band made it to air. The star guests did not.
