Jodie Kidd took the dramatic decision to close the doors of her country pub after a spate of recent incidents with volatile customers - including one in which a waitress was physically manhandled, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 46 year old model-turned-publican took her decision to temporarily shut the Half Moon, a 15th century village inn in West Sussex in frustration.
A post on the pub's Instagram page read: 'While we know we won't be to everyone's taste, it saddens us that in recent weeks we as a team have faced abuse - both verbal and physical.
'We'd like to remind everyone that behind The Half Moon is a team of people who care deeply about what we do. We are human.'
Now the Mail has established what happened in the episodes she was alluding to at the pub in the village of Kirdford near Chichester.
