JEREMY CLARKSON'S DIDDLY SQUAT GOES ONLINE!
Fans of Jeremy Clarkson's farm to fork produce need no longer wait in the huge queues at his Chipping Norton farm shop as the ex-Top Gear star has began to advertise his produce on Amazon Fresh.
The Cotswolds shop, which was made famous on the star's Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm has become a tourist trap, with thousands of fans visiting every year.
Since the Amazon show has aired, some fans have said they have been forced to wait for hours to see the 'massively over-priced' shop in Oxfordshire.
However, fans of the show can now skip the line and order a variety of authentic Clarkson products including home grown piccalilli, hand-cut crisps, beef jerky and honey.
Currently on Amazon prices range from £1.70 for ready-salted crisps to £39 for Clarkson's famous 'cow juice' vodka.
The shop has featured heavily in the hit Prime Video original mini-series Clarkson's Farm which features Clarkson along with a cast of colourful characters as they face the unexpected trials and tribulations of British farming.
Since opening in 2020 the farm shop has been selling all manner of produce, including candles, mini eggs, lager, gin, jam, rapeseed oil, cheese and 'cow juice'.
It has become a major tourist attraction in its own right, with fans coming from across the country and beyond to visit.
But the lack of adequate parking has meant that visitors were often forced to park on adjacent fields and the side of the road, disturbing land and sparking heated disapproval from villagers.
Clarkson has already had six planning disputes with his local council over his various proposals to expand the Diddly Squat site but has faced repeated opposition.
He has had rejections to plant a row of trees around a temporary car park, open a restaurant, build a pickle ball court and even permission to lay out a simple farm track to a converted barn.
Faced with a barrage of complaints from fans on social media after the rejections were aired on TV, West Oxfordshire District Council were forced to deny they had a 'personal vendetta' against the celebrity farmer.
In January Clarkson launched another planning battle after submitting new proposals for an 'urgent' storage barn.
He filed fresh plans to build a huge 118ft long by 59ft wide barn to store grain at the site and said it was due to the 'urgent need for the additional storage' which was effecting the price of his produce.
It will be the eleventh application the Grand Tour host has lodged with West Oxfordshire District Council since he bought the 1,000-acre farm in 2008.
Clarkson was even forced to close his restaurant temporarily in January last year after being served with an enforcement notice from the local council - with residents claiming the establishment was causing heavy traffic.
However, despite the highly-publicised run-ins with the council, Amazon Prime announced a third series of Clarkson's Farm will be released on May 3.
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