Jeremy Clarkson was arrested in France over an incident involving a slug, according to a new episode of Clarkson’s Farm.
The TV star is well known for presenting BBC’s Top Gear and Prime Video’s The Grand Tour with James May and Richard Hammond.
He is also now known for his farming adventures on Clarkson’s Farm, also on Prime Video, set at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire.
Several episodes of the show’s new fourth series of the show were released yesterday (Friday, May 23) and featured a hilarious anecdote from the man himself.
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Speaking in the new episodes, Mr Clarkson 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.
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The cast of Clarkson’s Farm series four. (Image: Prime Video)
“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’. “
The 65-year-old crucially did not know the French for slug, limace, so frantically tried to explain what he had eaten and described it as a “snail without a house”.
The French police believed he was “paralytic” and jailed him for the night.
He concluded: “They just thought: ‘This man is definitely paralytic’. I got thrown into prison because I didn’t know the French for slug.”