Meet Lisa Hogan, the Dublin woman who won Jeremy Clarkson's heart

It seems that it's true what they say there really is someone out there for everyone, it just took Jeremy Clarkson a few attempts to find 'the one.' Dublin woman Lisa Hogan appears to be the perfect match for the TV personality.

The former Top Gear host was married twice, to Alexandra James and Frances Caine, before he came to meet his statuesque 6ft 2" other half Lisa. He may not be everyone's cup of tea, but he was the one for Lisa and the duo has gone from strength to strength over recent years even giving fans an insight into their lives on the hit TV show Clarkson's Farm.

As Jeremy and Lisa navigate through a bovine tuberculosis outbreak at Diddly Squat Farm, let's find out just how the motoring journalist managed to bag the Irish cailín? Here's what we know...

When did they meet?

According to a novel written by Jeremy's ex Phillipa Sage, The Wonderful World Of Jeremy Clarkson: My Life On The Road With Jeremy, it was when he was already supposed to be in a committed relationship.

Clarkson was married to his second wife when they met and in the book, she describes herself as ‘the other woman’. Then, in 2017, she found out he was also seeing Lisa.

‘He’d actually told me: “I was born for you” and asked me to stay the night a few days before he was out with Lisa,’ Philippa said in a recent interview. ‘Then one of my friends pointed out the photograph of him with another woman.

‘I thought: “Oh yes, she’s definitely his type. She’s tall and blonde. He’s gone for the perfect upgrade: taller, skinnier, younger.” So I was like: “F**k off, what are you doing when we are supposed to be working things out?”’

Jeremy told her to ‘calm down’, assuring Phillipa that Lisa was ‘just a friend’, but a few weeks later admitted he wanted to be with Lisa.

Chatting about their relationship with the Daily Mail, Lisa said she was introduced to Clarkson by mutual friends at a drinks party nine years ago.

Though we don't know when they did finally get together the two made their official debut as a couple at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards in 2017.

Diddley Squat Farm

Now, it is Lisa who has become chatelaine of Clarkson's Diddley Squat Farm, and who regularly features on the Prime Video series that follows their fortunes.

‘I think she’s really enjoying doing that, because she’s even less of a country girl than I am — though she’ll probably say different.

'She was born in Dublin and has lived in Switzerland, Majorca and London, and yet there she is with her filthy Doc Martens on, stomping around, running that farm shop and loving it,' said Clarkson.

At the end of July 2025, Jeremy revealed bovine tuberculosis had been found at Diddly Squat, meaning they've had to go into lockdown and can't buy or sell cows for two months.

'We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated,' he wrote on X.' I should clear this up really. It’s Bovine TB that we have. It doesn’t affect people, just our poor cows.'

Who is Lisa Hogan?

Lisa Hogan and Jeremy Clarkson during the "Clarkson's Farm" photocall at St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel. Pic: Getty Images

Lisa had a middle-class upbringing in Dublin. Her father Maurice was an architect who died when she was 14.

Her mother, former model Arlene Underwood, remarried to Raymond Keaveney, director of the National Gallery and whose brothers Peter and Mark founded the nationwide hairdressing chain that bears their names.

Speaking about her father's death, Lisa told the Daily Mail: 'It was a shock. We were the only single-parent family we knew in Dublin. Divorce wasn’t legal in Ireland then. But it made me independent.'

She was educated at Alexandra College in Milltown, and later became a model, artist, and actress. John Cleese even saw her as a muse and cast her in 1997’s Fierce Creatures.

At 19, Lisa took off to Australia, hoping to connect with a godmother who had gifted her some treasured jewellery. She never found the godmother, but spent a year in Australia and Hong Kong.

Lisa's marriage and children

Lisa had dated jockey and stockbroker Roger Weatherby, and was linked to Tony O’Reilly’s son Gavin for a while, before she met and married Steven Bentinck, with whom she had three children, Wolfe, 25, Alice, 23, and Lizzy, 26.

Theirs was an enviable lifestyle, split between London, New York, a mansion in Switzerland, a castle on the Isle of Wight, an Elizabethan home in Essex, and the yacht, the Zaca A Te Mona, which was permanently on standby in Majorca.

Yet like her other half, finding true love was a struggle and she herself went through a divorce from Steven in 2005, when Lisa allegedly employed Prince Charles’s divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, to act for her. The divorce was finalised in 2011.

Before she was dating Jeremy, she used to watch him on Top Gear with her son. She told the Daily Mail: ‘I used to let my son stay up to watch Top Gear, but I never really watched it myself.

'I knew him more from his writing. I always loved his columns. I thought he was bright – and probably amusing. And I think he thought I’d be amusing.'

Between them, Lisa and Jeremy have six children with him being dad to Emily, 30, Finlo, 28, and Katya, 26, from his marriage to Frances Cain.

Lisa's book

We are set to get a deeper insight into Lisa and Jeremy's relationship as the former model is releasing a book about their life.

Penguin announced in April that it is set to publish her book, titled: My Animals and Other Eejits, in 2025. It will seemingly chart the comings and goings at Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm.

Speaking about the project, Lisa said: 'Barely a day goes by at Diddly Squat without a brilliant or bizarre adventure. I'm so excited to share this book of revelations, tips and trip-ups.

'It tells the story of a year of crops, breeding, overalls and offspring on the farm, where bale twine is as valuable as a Wall Street commodity.

'It's been a joy to write and I'm thrilled to be working with the good people at Penguin Random House to bring it into the world,' reports PA.

Addressing their own split rumours

With all the drama that came following Jeremy's words about Meghan Markle, rumours of a split plagued the pair. But Jeremy came out to shush the swirling gossip, stating recently that the two were very much still together and going strong.

'So many kind messages about today’s reports. But relax. Lisa and I have not split up and I have not been sacked as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,' he wrote.

Jeremy's health scare

The presenter revealed in January 2024 that he'd had a 5cm cyst removed and had lost a stone in weight.

He told The Sun: 'Lisa took me to a health farm and, well, it was so miserable there that I thought, "I've got to have this cyst taken out at some point, I may as well go now". So I checked out of the whole place and checked into hospital, because it was more fun having an operation than eating juniper berries all day long.'

What does the future hold for the couple?

Lisa Hogan (L) and Jeremy Clarkson attend the Roundhouse Gala Pic: Getty

Despite how close they have become, marriage appears not to be on the cards, as she explained to Fabulous magazine. ‘Mrs Clarkson? No, thank you, I like Lisa Hogan,’ she said.

‘We’re at a stage where we are not going to have kids. I think because of our age, it’s much easier. You go: “God, is it you I end up with? OK, that’s it.” But it’s relaxing knowing you are not going to be with anybody else. It gives you a certain amount of liberation.’

She also explained how their relationship developed. ‘He courted me for quite a long time,’ she said. ‘He took me out for dinner. He would pick me up, drop me off. I wanted to know that he wasn’t messing around.'

Lisa Hogan in the farm shop. Pic: Jeremy Clarkson/Instagram

‘We’d both come out of quite long-term relationships and I was really happy being single. So I was like: “If I’m not going to be single any more, I don’t want to be with a messer”.

‘I had given myself three months, but it was way before that, where I thought: “OK, I really like this person”. He has a laser brain and will take you down — and that’s where the fun and the challenge is with him, trying to take him down.’

As Lisa says, they have been together for five years, but ‘it feels like 50 because we are together 24/7.’

Celebrating milestones together

As Clarkson's Farm viewers will know, Jeremy and Lisa share a similar sense of humour, and so the pair are known to throw a cheeky comment each other's way from time to time.

The television personality shared a gas post for his love's birthday on Wednesday, 28 May, sharing a clip of her swimming gracefully through their lake... sans swimsuit!

'Birthday girl in her birthday suit,' Jeremy captioned the post, while Lisa added: 'Twas a good start to the day.'