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Clarkson’s Farm presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said 11 sheep have been stolen from his Diddly Squat farm.

The 66-year-old said he discovered the animals were missing when he went to count his flock in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, with co-star Kaleb Cooper, and told those responsible to “put them back” in an interview with The Sun.

Clarkson told The Sun: “The police have been very good, actually.

“Once you go through 700 hours of recorded messages, I got through to a girl.

“I said, ‘I know it’s going to sound like I’m from 1856, but I’ve had some sheep stolen’.

“She went through the name and address and then she said, ‘oh, not your Easycares’ (a British breed of sheep). She’s obviously been watching the show, but it is the Easycares.”

He added: “It’s a farm. We’re armed. Just so they know.

“It pisses me off. Honestly, it just pisses me off.”

The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter told The Sun that the sheep were worth more than £2,000 at market, and added that he was worried some in other fields of his farm may have also been stolen.

He claimed it had been done at night or during a day when the farm was not being filmed for Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm, when he said there was “a film crew here all the time” and ”a drone in the air”.

Asked whether he believed the show had made his farm a target, Clarkson said: “It’s more likely to make you a target than less, but I still don’t think they’ve been stolen because they’re on Diddly Squat.

“How can you (stop it) if someone’s determined to steal your livestock?

“This is 1,000 acres, it’s a big farm. Anyone could be anywhere and you wouldn’t know.”

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