Steve Spielberg allegedly chose to skip Chelsea Clinton's wedding day to care for piglets in the English countryside.

The Jurassic Park director was originally reported to be one of the celebrity guests at the former first-daughter's recent nuptials, but it has since been discovered that the 63-year-old actually spent the day at a farm in the Dartmoor village of Widecombe-in-the-Moore.

Philipa Hughes, the owner of Holwell Farm, told the Daily Express that Spielberg had been scouting the site for use in his next project, a big budget adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse.

"It has been chaotic but very memorable," she said. "He came here last Saturday for a recce of the area. It was Bill Clinton's daughter's wedding and much of the world's media thought he was there.

"We showed him around the farm, showed him the views and he met the animals, like our piglets and Dartmoor ponies. He was very friendly and unassuming. He loved the animals and we found him a very easy person to be around."

The cast for Spielberg's War Horse, which includes Cemetery Junction star Emily Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch ofBBC drama series Sherlock, was revealed back in June.