Jeremy Clarkson 's Diddly Squat farm has been the latest victim of a prank for Ant and Dec 's Saturday Night Takeaway.
The 61-year-old presenter looked stunned as a horde of eco-protesters ran around naked at his Oxfordshire farm, while holding placards that read: "Soil has feeling, Clarkson doesn't."
They then used a digger to dump three tonnes of mushroom compost on his green Range Rover, as Jeremy and partner Lisa Hogan looked on in disbelief, The Sun claimed.
However, according to OxfordshireLive, the protest on Tuesday was a prank - set up by telly favourites Ant and Dec for their hit Saturday night ITV show, and that the eco-warriors were paid actors.
The fake protest was held over plans to expand his farm in the village of Chadlington, which has irked his neighbours as they fear it could bring more traffic and cause environmental damage to the picturesque area.
The activists emerged from tents near the farm’s popular shop, and daubed the building in graffiti which read: "Save our Turf, Save the Earth.”
Fans of the presenter had already speculated that Ant and Dec were responsible for the protest, and in a Facebook group dedicated to the Grand Tour presenter’s hit Amazon show Clarkson’s Farm, some had claimed they spotted filing crews from ITV at the farm.
Clarkson took to Twitter to deny reports of a protest at his farm, by telling "there was no protest of any kind at Diddly Squat farm shop yesterday."
The protest and vandalism weren’t reported to police, as Thames Valley Police said they had received "no reports" of vandalism.
"This was not a policing matter, but was filming that was pre-planned and that we were made aware of,” they told the publication.
The Geordie telly duo regularly prank celebrities on their Saturday Night Takeaway, adapting undercover disguises and thinking up outlandish scenarios to try and entrap their unsuspecting victim.
According to MailOnline, Ant and Dec had been hankering after Clarkson for years, but had yet to trick him with one of their fiendish pranks, until now.
One onlooker told the outlet that it looked like a scene from Monty Python, as police officers chased the protesters around the farm.
But they were more surprised by Clarkson’s calm reaction, as he reportedly walked around his compost-covered Range Rover and simply inspected the damage.
“Normally he has an opinion on everything, but he just stood there silent as all this stuff landed on his car,” they added.
