JD Vance will reportedly enjoy a family holiday in the Cotswolds (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)JD Vance could well face an “awkward” encounter during his summer holiday in the Cotswolds after reportedly renting a house just down the road from Jeremy Clarkson, it has been claimed. It emerged that Donald Trump’s deputy had planned a family holiday in the idyllic English countryside as he is set to spend his family holiday in Charlbury, a town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley.
JD Vance’s rumoured holiday home is just a stone’s throw from Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington – the focus of his massively popular Amazon Prime series, Clarkson’s Farm.
However, the Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle has pointed out a potential issue with this set-up, one that could ultimately lead to an “awkward” encounter between the two, and it’s all due to the presenter’s past comments.
He wrote: “US Vice President JD Vance is reportedly renting a Cotswold house in Charlbury, not far from Jeremy Clarkson’s farm in Chadlington. Might they bump into each other? That could be awkward.”
Jeremy Clarkson could face an “awkward” encounter with JD Vance (Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)Ephraim noted Clarkson’s unflattering comments about Trump’s number two in the past, highlighting how he’d described the politician as a “bearded God-botherer” and even a “t**t”‘.
The comments came in March when Clarkson hit back at Vance in his Sunday Times column after the vice president described the UK as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
Clarkson wrote: “Now I don’t want to stoop to his level, but I’m going to. Vance is a bearded God-botherer who pretty much thinks that women who’ve been raped should be forced to have the resultant child.
“I’ve searched for the right word to describe him and I think it’s ‘t**t’. He also has no clue about history.”
He went on to say that more recently than “30 or 40 years ago”, brave young men were being “blown to pieces” to support “whatever madcap scheme” the US president had “embarked upon that week”.
It’s been claimed that JD Vance could potentially face an “awkward” encounter(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Meanwhile, Cotswolds locals issued a warning to the MAGA loyalist ahead of his visit, saying that he will likely have nowhere to park. It has also been speculated that Vance will stay in one of several mansions in the area.
Some people think he’ll stay at the Grade II-listed Lee Place estate, while others suggest he would require the security on offer at Cornbury Park, home of the upcoming Wilderness Festival.
Fergus Butler-Gallie, the town’s vicar, said: “I’m just hoping they bring us Al Gore and Dick Cheney next, we’ve almost completed the set.
“We get all sorts of people here – we’ve got Mr Clarkson up the road. It’s noticeably got busier in the time I’ve been here.” It’s nice to be visited, and it’s good the town can maintain two pubs and several shops. There are a lot of places like ours which wouldn’t be able to keep that up.”