Jeremy Clarkson has criticised US Vice-President JD Vance over a no-fly zone imposed during his stay in the Cotswolds, which has disrupted filming for the fifth series of Clarkson's Farm. The restricted airspace covers Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton, forcing the production team to scrap drone footage while Vance remains in the area.
Clarkson shared his frustration on Instagram, posting a map of the no-fly zone with a pin marking his farm. He wrote: “The JD Vance no fly zone. We are the pin. So on the downside, no drone shots today. On the upside, no annoying light aircraft.”
His co-star, Kaleb Cooper, also vented about the disruption, claiming his wheat got wet in a trailer after he was forced to wait for Vance's 19-vehicle convoy. “My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convo(y) stopped me in the rain in Chippy,” he wrote. “If he had just drove around in a VW Polo nobody would know who he was.”
Clarkson later posted a sarcastic video of his undisturbed fields with the caption: “Utter chaos caused by Vance. How will we ever manage?”
Vance is staying at Dean Manor, a Grade II-listed Georgian manor near Charlbury, as part of a UK visit combining leisure and politics. Clarkson had previously criticised the vice-president in his Times column after Vance described the UK as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
