Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he regularly has to deal with intruders at his Oxfordshire home.

On one occasion a man came in and sat in his kitchen in Chadlington near Chipping Norton and Mr Clarkson at first assumed he was with the film crew.

He told The Guardian: "He was looking at me writing the voiceover for Clarkson's Farm and said, 'Oh is this the new series? I said, yeah. I was chatting away then suddenly went 'Who are you?' and he went, 'I was just passing'.

"I said, 'No, I'm sorry you cannot just walk into somebody's house and pull up a chair."

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"Four sweet little kids" also recently knocked on the door, he said, "their mothers at the gate going 'go on, kids' like 'walk in'".

"You have to be nice to the children, obviously, it’s not their fault," he said. "But I did take their mothers to one side and say, ‘You can’t do that.’”

But the worst encounter happened when Mr Clarkson's partner Lisa Hogan came out of the shower dressed only in a towelling robe and bumped into a couple having a nosy round.

"Their attitude was 'he's on television, he won't mind," he said.

In the interview Mr Clarkson also insisted his controversial persona was all an act and he is far more relaxed now he spends most of his time at Diddly Squat Farm.

The TV presenter, 64, said he now feels no pressure 'to say something stupidly provocative' any more and insists the controversial Clarkson was 'a comic creation'.

"Everyone assumes the character they see on motoring shows is me, but it's exaggerated," he said. "To think that I was like I was on Top Gear is the same as thinking that Anthony Hopkins is a cannibal."

Challenged over his dismissals of global warming on his motoring shows, he said: "That was part of the caricature. It was a joke.

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"Now you think, Jesus Christ, my neighbours over there, they've had to replant everything because it's all drowned. I can't believe it's not dominating the news agenda.

"Oh no, wait, it is."

Seemingly confirming the rumours that Mr Clarkson wants to buy the Coach and Horses on the A429 Stow Road in Bourton on the Water, and opposite the Hawkstone Brewery, he told the newspaper that he does want to open a pub.

"We found one the other day which isn't called The Shaven Mound but it is in my mind," he said. "Astonishingly beautiful, 750 years old, but parking would be impossible."