Jeremy Clarkson reveals the 'worst day' of his life - and it wasn't to do with his new pub

Jeremy Clarkson has claimed a visit to Spain's La Tomatino festival turned into the "worst day of his life" saying he could have been "sodomised" and wouldn't have noticed. The Clarkson's Farm star attended the festival 22 years ago and despite saying tomatoes are one of his top three favourite foods, he was not a fan.

The annual event sees a procession of trucks deposit 135 tonnes of tomatoes into the streets which are then collected by the crowd, who hurl them at one another. The festival was recently forced to introduce safe zones after a local TV reporter covering proceedings had her bottom pinched.

Jeremy claims some of the tomatoes are as hard as potatoes and although thousands of people flock to and enjoy the event he was not a fan.

"It’s awful. You’re getting elbowed and shoved. You can’t see a thing. Your eyes hurt like hell and you have no idea which way is up. And all the time another potato travelling at 40mph is heading towards the side of your head. And you can’t see it coming.

"God knows how anyone could tell their bottom was being pinched," he opined. "They could have sodomised me with a hatstand out there and I wouldn’t have noticed."

The broadcaster, journalist, farmer and publican was using the festival as an example of human beings' desire to have fun as he yet again slammed Sir Keir Starmer's plans to ban smoking in outdoor spaces.

"Humans..like excitement. We like danger... And that’s what he wants to take away," he concluded writing in his Sunday Times column.

This is just his latest dig at the Prime Minister over plans to extend the current smoking ban to all outdoor public places.  This would make it illegal to smoke outside at a restaurant, or even in the smoking area of a nightclub.

Jeremy, who just opened his own bar The Farmer's Dog in The Cotswolds, took a further swipe at Sir Keir's smoking ban on Saturday comparing the situation to vegans. He name checked Ricky Gervais, pointing out he is a vegan who loves animals but doesn't insist others turn vegan.

"Sadly, however, Sir Starmer does not think like this. He doesn’t like smoking so he’s going to ban it. And then, to make this Stalinist decree sound reasonable, he says the illnesses smoking cause cost the NHS a huge amount of money every year," Jeremy ranted in The Sun.

Explaining the folly in Labour's reasoning, Jeremy pointed to the huge revenue raised by the tax on cigarettes every year to the tune of £10billion.

"Without that coming in, the £22billion 'black hole' Starmer keeps droning on about will become £32billion. He says he can pay for all this by taxing the rich, but he’s deluded," he added.

He ended his column by declaring: "He really is Woke Wilson and I literally can’t think of anything more dangerous."