JD Vance visit causes unexpected chaos at Clarkson's Farm
The presenter revealed on Instagram that a no-fly zone has been put in place around the Cotswolds manor the Vice President is vacationing it.
Clarkson's farm is within the mile-wide area, meaning the program can't do any drone shots for the duration of the Vice President's stay.
Vance will be in residence in the hamlet of Dean for the rest of August.
Clarkson posted a picture on Instagram showing the no fly zone, writing: '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.'
Clarkson isn't the only one frustrated by Vance's presence in Chipping Norton, with many in the area tired of the disruptions caused by Trump's right-hand man's choice of holiday spot. https://www.instagram.com/p/DNQFMvgMz4a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This includes Clarkson's right-hand man, Kaleb Cooper, who commented on Clarkson's post: 'My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convo stopped me in the rain in Chippy.
'I could easily have went on my way and got it in the shed without getting in the way.'
Adding several laughing emojis, he noted: '(If) he had just drove around in a VW Polo nobody would know who he was.'
Vance is staying in Dean Manor, a vast property situated in a small hamlet of just 12 houses in Oxfordshire, and the Secret Service now has a noticeable presence in the area as they attempt to maintain its security.
According to The DailyMail, one local who did not wish to be named said: 'Dean Manor is as close as possible to Mr Clarkson's farm house as can be. I'm willing to bet Clarkson can see it out of his bedroom window.'
But it's unlikely the pair will find themselves being particularly neighbourly, as Clarkson recently slammed Vance in his column after Vance described the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years' amid rising tensions between Europe and the US as to how Ukraine can be supported in their conflict with Russia.
In response, Clarkson wrote, in part: 'I've searched for the right word to describe him and I think it's 't**t'. He also has no clue about history.
'Because far more recently than 30 or 40 years ago, as Vance claimed last week, our brave young men were being blown to pieces in some godforsaken desert to support whatever madcap scheme the American president had embarked upon that week.'
Shielded by 15-foot-high honey-coloured stone walls, Dean Manor's six-acre gardens are usually a model of serene, by-appointment-only beauty.
Built in 1702 during Queen Anne's reign for Oxford Tory MP Thomas Rowney, the Grade II-listed house is now under an unprecedented security lockdown.
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Navy-jacketed, khaki-trousered teams of US Secret Service operatives patrol the perimeter day and night. More Trending
The estate's current owner, Pippa Hornby, is maintaining strict silence on her high-profile new tenant, believed to be paying up to £8,000 a week for the property.
Dean Manor's Tory pedigree seems apt for Republican Vance: it was until recently owned by Conservative peer Peter Selwyn Gummer, Baron Chadlington, and sits just down the road from former prime minister David Cameron's home in Dean, itself protected by a permanent armed police detail.
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For the duration of Vance's stay in mid to late August, the public footpaths and bridleways that thread through the surrounding woodland will be the nearest anyone gets to its locked-down gates.
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