Jeremy Clarkson has clarified the reality behind his arrest in France, when he spent the evening in a jail cell. The previous High Gear host was considered “paralytic” by French authorities who picked him up after a night of heavy ingesting at a restaurant – however there was extra to the incident than first met the attention.
The incident wasn’t a current one, nonetheless, and really occurred round 40 years in the past – however Jeremy solely just lately confessed the ordeal to followers in a brand new episode of Prime Video collection Clarkson’s Farm. He defined: “I as soon as needed to go to jail in France due to a slug. True story. I went to a restaurant known as La Pomme d’Amour and there was a slug in my lettuce.
“The person was so apologetic. He stated: ‘You possibly can drink as a lot as you want on the home’. I used to be solely 19 so I assumed: ‘I’ll then!’ And I did. I used to be arrested a bit later as a result of I used to be a bit wobbly. I used to be making an attempt to clarify to the policeman that I might eaten a slug and the person had given me loads of drink.
“However I could not suppose what the French for slug was. I stated: ‘Je mange un escargot sans maison.’” That actually interprets to “snail and not using a home”, fairly than the precise French for slug, which is limace.
Jeremy concluded: “They simply thought: ‘This man is certainly paralytic’. I acquired thrown into jail as a result of I did not know the French for slug.”
He later clarified on X with a tweet: “To be clear, the slug incident that acquired me an evening within the Cannes can was precisely 40 years in the past this weekend. Not final week or something.”
It’s not Jeremy’s solely brush with the regulation – although a 2024 incident was fortunately much more tongue-in-cheek. Movies started to flow into final yr of the star being ‘arrested’ at his Cotswolds Diddly Squat farm after protesters hurled filth at his automotive, with a gaggle chanting: “Don’t harm filth!” as they campaigned for the “rights of soil”.
All of it turned out to be a prank for Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night time Takeaway on ITV, and Jeremy replied to 1 fan who requested if he was actually arrested by police with the easy tweet: “Fairly positive I wasn’t. It’s the sort of factor you discover.”
