Jeremy Clarkson has accused Nicola Sturgeon of hating the English as he complained about Covid-19 constraints he faced when filming in Scotland.

The presenter travelled north earlier this month to movie his Amazon Prime series The Grand Tour with co-hosts James Could and Richard Hammond.

The trio, every driving a typical American car or truck, started their journey in Edinburgh and finished in North Uist in the Western Isles.

Grand Tour stars Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond were filming for their Amazon Prime series on Scottish islands which was at the centre of a coronavirus cluster

Grand Tour stars Jeremy Clarkson, James May perhaps and Richard Hammond were being filming for their Amazon Primary collection on Scottish islands which was at the centre of a coronavirus cluster

Clarkson, May and Hammond have been filming their series The Grand Tour in the Scottish Highlands where Jeremy Clarkson has complained of the 'dizzying' list of Covid restrictions

Clarkson, May and Hammond have been filming their collection The Grand Tour in the Scottish Highlands exactly where Jeremy Clarkson has complained of the ‘dizzying’ listing of Covid limits

Jeremy Clarkson arriving in the Highlands to film the new series of Amazon's The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson arriving in the Highlands to film the new series of Amazon’s The Grand Tour

Clarkson driving a classic American car while filming for the new series of The Grand Tour

Clarkson driving a traditional American motor vehicle although filming for the new sequence of The Grand Tour 

Clarkson explained he did not consider the vacation would occur as he expected the 1st Minister to shut the Border due to the fact of her ‘hatred of the English’.

He complained about the ‘dizzying’ listing of overall health and security processes the production had to stick to.

This bundled remaining examined every single working day, consuming at tables for just one and not currently being permitted to interact with any person exterior the crew.

They also had to acquire their personal private airplane to Scotland and guide out entire motels to cease the prospective spread of the virus.

Clarkson, 60, reported: ‘In the summer season, when it seemed as if the virus ended up receding, we made a decision to hearth up the Grand Tour machine and head north of the Border to invest a 7 days or so looking at Richard Hammond crash into things.

‘The principles of engagement it [Amazon] supplied were dizzying. We had been to get our have screening lab on the 1,000-mile journey and the essential players had been to be analyzed every single day.

‘Everyone on the crew had to sustain a length of 6ft from a single yet another, which is quite challenging when you’re in a motor vehicle.

‘And anything any person touched had to be sterilised prior to another person could touch it all over again.

‘This intended eradicating the locks from our automobiles and providing everybody screwdrivers to split in, since keys had been deemed deadly.

‘The expense of conference all these needs was massive.

‘I did not consider there was a hope in hell we’d get began, allow by itself finished. And which is just before we get to the trouble with Scotland.

‘Nicola Sturgeon would seem to be driven entirely by a deep-seated hatred of the English, so we were anticipating her to near the Border at any moment.

‘Which would have intended throwing absent all the dollars that experienced been put in.’

The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host also complained about the deficiency of Wi-Fi at a resort and insisted the simple fact no person analyzed beneficial all through the nine-day shoot was mostly down to ‘luck’ instead than the stringent procedures.

Richard Hammond arriving in the Highlands to film the new series of Amazon's The Grand Tour

Richard Hammond arriving in the Highlands to movie the new series of Amazon’s The Grand Tour

James May arriving in the Highlands to film the new series of Amazon's The Grand Tour

James May well arriving in the Highlands to movie the new sequence of Amazon’s The Grand Tour

Some of the cars on set of The Grand Tour TV show filming, the Highlands, Scotland last month

Some of the automobiles on set of The Grand Tour Television demonstrate filming, the Highlands, Scotland very last month

Composing in The Sunday Periods, he added: ‘In the Edinburgh resort we experienced been compelled to commandeer, we all sat and had dinner, on tables for a single.

‘Then a burly male shoved a swab down our throats until eventually we gagged. And, incredibly, all of us, about 50 persons, examined unfavorable. We could start off.

‘We ended up not authorized to socialise with or even talk to people today from outside our bubble, which wasn’t easy, as each and every other Tv exhibit I can consider of was in Scotland way too.

‘When we received to North Uist, we have been greeted by Joanna Lumley. I was not permitted to get within 6ft of her.

‘That harm. Perfectly, it harm me. I was allowed to choose off my mask whilst ingesting, but when I stood up I experienced to set it again on.

‘Because Covid-19 only exists at altitude and ahead of 10pm, which is when I was compelled to go to mattress in a room with no Wi-Fi.’

The Scottish Federal government has previously stated that all present-day public health and fitness steps ‘are in area to help save lives’.