Front seat for Dave as Grand Tour hits Chipping Norton

PAID a staggering £35.8 million by Amazon to create their new motoring show The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson and his colleagues are making sure some of the money is shared among the presenter’s Chipping Norton set.

I can reveal the company Clarkson set up to make The Grand Tour — Chump Holdings — plans to install a mobile film studio on the Great Tew estate owned by David Cameron’s Old Etonian school chum Nicholas Johnston. Show producers will invite around 350 ‘ ticketed’ guests to sit in the audience at the new venue. ‘ Who knows, we might see Cameron and his mates join the audience,’ one local tells me. ‘It could be hilarious.’ When Clarkson was sacked by the BBC in 2015 after punching a Top Gear producer who failed to provide him with a

hot dinner, Cameron insisted his pal was a ‘huge talent’.

The former prime minister’s Oxfordshire home is just a short drive from The Grand Tour’s proposed location in Great Tew, described by society magazine Tatler as ‘the hippest 4,000 acres outside London’.

Planning documents submitted by Chump in July say: ‘A temporary film studio is proposed within the grounds of Tew Park, to be located within the parkland setting for a proposed Amazon Prime TV show.’

Filming on Johnston’s estate will take place once a week over two five- week periods between October and December. Neighbours can expect an influx of expensive vehicles.

‘I am engaging a traffic management consultant to work with us on this,’ said Karen Hudson, of Chump, in an email to West Oxfordshire District Council.

So, how long before we see Dave test-driving a Bugatti?

Other guests who could be invited on the show include Victoria and David Beckham, who recently bought a swanky £ 6.15million ‘ barn’ conversion in Great Tew from Johnston.