Jeremy Clarkson has caught trespassers at his Cotswolds farm in Oxfordshire touching his animals.
He runs Diddly Squat Farm on the outskirts of Chipping Norton, where he lives and films the hit Prime Video series charting his life as a farmer.
The land, farm shop and restaurant have become a major visitor draw in the Cotswolds, bringing fans from across the country to what is otherwise a quiet rural area.
Mr Clarkson took to X, formerly Twitter, after confronting people who had gone onto his land without permission and were handling his livestock.
In his post, he wrote: “I caught one in our cow shed the other day. Trying to stroke the calves.”
This was in response to a post by Dr Nick Wilson, which said: “F*****g walkers.
“Can’t shut a simple gate, ewes and lambs all over the spring barley. If you can’t follow the Countryside Code, then keep away.”
The post had a photograph attached, which showed the animals in several fields with the gate left wide open.
Mr Clarkson will be returning to screens this summer with the release of Clarkson’s Farm series five on Prime Video.
The first few episodes will come out on Wednesday, June 3, before the others drop in the following weeks.
Speaking on the series, a spokesperson from Amazon said: “Amid a government budget that sends the UK farming community into uproar, Jeremy decides some big changes are needed to make the farm run more smoothly.
“But while the farm tries to go high-tech, resulting in Kaleb’s first-ever trip abroad, even bigger developments are heading for Diddly Squat that are going to prove much more of a challenge.”
