To be clear, I've also never demanded a game of monopoly or a Range Rover so I could "look at it".

According to the Mail, I once demanded a helicopter to get me some gravy. Where do they come up with this nonsense?

On Monday the Mail Online - a publication not exactly known for being a bastion of accurate reporting - published a bizarre set of claims levelled at ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson.

The report cites Ed Coutts, owner of a luxury hotel in Waiheke Island, New Zealand, who has claimed that Clarkson set out a series of peculiar demands during his stay. Apparently, he’d insisted that a particular type of gravy mix, a packet of cigarettes and the board game ‘Monopoly’ should be brought to him via helicopter, since the nearest shop was some distance away.