Clarkson’s Farm host Jeremy ended up in a cell after munching on one of the slimeballs in France and it led to a spell behind bars for the farming star
Jeremy Clarkson was once jailed after a run-in with a slug. The telly star is used to the critters attacking his crops on his Diddly Squat Farm.
But the Clarkson’s Farm host has now revealed he has history with the mischievous molluscs – after one of the slimeballs had him banged up.
Speaking in the new series of his reality farming show on Amazon Prime Video he said: “I once had to go to prison in France because of a slug.
“True story. I went to a restaurant called La Pomme d’Amour and there was a slug in my lettuce. The man was so apologetic. He said: ‘You can drink as much as you like on the house’.
“I was only 19 so I thought: ‘I will then!’ And I did. I was arrested a bit later because I was a bit wobbly. I was trying to explain to the policeman that I’d eaten a slug and the man had given me a lot of drink.
“But I couldn’t think what the French for slug was. I said: ‘Je mange un escargot sans maison’. “
Jeremy, 65, did not know the French for slug – which is ‘limace’ – and was trying to explain that he had eaten a ‘snail without a house’.
But his Franglais did not impress the local gendarmes who were convinced he was ‘paralytic’ and chucked him in the slammer.
He said: “They just thought: ‘This man is definitely paralytic’. I got thrown into prison because I didn’t know the French for slug.”
Meanwhile., young adults consider Jeremy Clarkson to be more of an eco-champion than a petrol head, a poll suggests.
The Clarkson’s Farm star, 65, came second only to Sir David Attenborough, 99, when Gen Z was asked to name the celebrities that best represent the countryside.
He even beat renowned environmentalist Chris Packham, 64, and Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen, 50.
The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host, famed for his work as a motoring presenter, said: “I like nature but I accept people like to eat beef burgers.”
He suggested his ranking was because his beliefs were “tinged with realism”.
Springwatch presenter Mr Packham welcomed Sir David’s ranking as number one.
He said: “If only we were all heeding his urgent calls to change the countryside so that it, we and everything that struggles to survive there had a more secure future.”
Sir David’s documentary Wild Isles was voted the best TV representation of countryside life in the Future Countryside survey, followed by Clarkson’s Farm.
The BBC’s flagship rural affairs show Countryfile came third, followed by Escape to the Country.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
