Richard Hammond says he thinks he is banned from The Farmer's Dog after answering fan questions in a recent DriveTribe video. The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter did not shut the rumor down; instead, he leaned into it and said he has always wanted the ban if it is real.
DriveTribe and The Farmer's Dog
The question was whether Hammond had been barred from Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswolds pub, The Farmer's Dog. Hammond answered, “I think I am banned, and if I am not, I’ve always wanted to be.”
He also said the topic had come up earlier when he visited James May's pub. That keeps the story in the same comic lane these three presenters have used for years on Top Gear and The Grand Tour, where arguments and sabotage often played as part of the act rather than a clean split.
What James May said
James May drew one line for what would get someone removed from a pub: discussion and different opinions should be allowed, but damaging artwork, breaking windows or insulting the staff would cross it. Hammond’s response was blunt — he said he would “go for a ban.”
That exchange matters because it shows the rumor is being handled as a joke with rules attached, not as a formal public statement about a dispute. Hammond even said Clarkson had already told him he was banned from The Farmer's Dog, which makes the whole thing sound like a running gag between the three rather than a hard break.
2024 to 2025
The Farmer's Dog opened in 2024 in Oxfordshire, tied to Clarkson's farming business. The final Clarkson, Hammond and May special for The Grand Tour arrived in 2024 too, and the pub talk has carried that old trio dynamic into a different setting.
Earlier in 2025, Hammond said he had been to James May's pub but not Clarkson's, and at the time he said he wanted to go there and get banned. On the evidence Hammond gave in the recent video, the cleanest reading is that he is treating the alleged ban as part of the joke — and he is happy to keep it that way until he actually walks through the door.
