Jeremy Clarkson shares a laugh with a female pal at a posh organic grocers in London

Jeremy Clarkson stepped out in London’s Notting Hill on Thursday, accompanied by a female friend.

The Grand Tour host, 60, nipped into a posh organic grocers in the upmarket neighbourhood, as he shared a joke with his pal.

Sticking to COVID-19 rules, Jeremy donned a black face mask, adding it to a smart-casual look. 

Jeremy Clarkson stepped out in London’s Notting Hill on Thursday, accompanied by a female friend

The host of the rebooted Who Wants To Be A Millionaire wore a cornflower blue sweater vest over a checked blue and white shirt, jeans and brown loafers.

His companion looked cute in a black sweater over a crisp white shirt and a short black and white skirt.

She added black tights and pumps to the outfit and slung a dove grey winter coat over her arm.

The strawberry blonde laughed with the former Top Gear host as they ran the errands and headed back to his SUV.

MailOnline has approached a rep for Jeremy for comment. 

The Grand Tour host, 60, nipped into a posh organic grocers in the upmarket neighbourhood, as he shared a joke with his pal

The Grand Tour host, 60, nipped into a posh organic grocers in the upmarket neighbourhood, as he shared a joke with his pal

His companion looked cute in a black sweater over a crisp white shirt and a short black and white skirt

His companion looked cute in a black sweater over a crisp white shirt and a short black and white skirt

The strawberry blonde laughed with the former Top Gear host as they ran the errands and headed back to his SUV

The strawberry blonde laughed with the former Top Gear host as they ran the errands and headed back to his SUV 

The TV star is worth £50 million and has a 1,000-acre Cotswolds farm called Diddly Squat.

Earlier this year, he opened a farm shop, Squat Shop, only for its makeshift car park to turn into a quagmire as locals roared in to snap up water labelled ‘It’s got no s**t in it’, and potatoes which, Clarkson promised, were cheaper than Aldi’s.

He subsequently became snarled up in a spat with Chadlington Parish Council, which accused him of flouting planning regulations and coronavirus guidelines.

But the irrepressible Jeremy Clarkson (pictured) doesn't get everything his own way — even at Diddly Squat, his 1,000-acre Cotswolds farm

But the irrepressible Jeremy Clarkson (pictured) doesn’t get everything his own way — even at Diddly Squat, his 1,000-acre Cotswolds farm

‘Conditions of the original planning application have not been adhered to,’ allege the councillors in a letter to the planning authorities.

‘It clearly states that goods retailed from the farm shop shall be solely limited to goods and produce grown, reared and produced on the holding or from local producers based solely within West Oxfordshire District Council boundaries, and this has not been the case. 

‘Despite assurances to the local shops in the village that there would be no direct competition, this is not happening.’

Nor is the council appreciative of a ‘pop-up’ cafe which briefly appeared at Diddly Squat, as the straw bales used for seating were covered with ‘fabric throws’, which were ‘against Covid-19 regulations’.

It concludes by making allegations concerning the filming of Clarkson’s forthcoming Amazon Prime Series, I Bought The Farm.

Now he's snarled up in a spat with Chadlington Parish Council, which accuses him of flouting planning regulations and coronavirus guidelines

Now he’s snarled up in a spat with Chadlington Parish Council, which accuses him of flouting planning regulations and coronavirus guidelines

Large numbers of cars have been parked haphazardly along that piece of road when filming takes place, causing problems and an accident waiting to happen,’ claim the Chadlington councillors.

Clarkson, 60, gives a characteristically full-throttle response. 

‘No cars are ever parked on the road as there is a large car park,’ he tells me, before explaining that ‘pretty much all’ the food and drink on sale comes ‘either from my farm or from within a few miles of the shop’. 

But most important of all, he adds, is that ‘in a time of great economic uncertainty, that little shop now employs five people and buys from local producers who otherwise would be out of a job’.

Last month, motormouth Clarkson was forced to reapply for planning permission because his farm shop was built with the wrong type of roof.