Chaos follows Jeremy Clarkson . His new pub The Farmer’s Dog – set to open this week – has faced massive pushback from locals, worried about surging numbers of tourists in the area. He’s pushing ahead regardless.
So maybe it’s no surprise to learn that filming the most recent season of his hit show Clarkson’s Farm almost put his girlfriend, Lisa Hogan, in jail. “My neighbour said she would bring me cigarettes — I don’t smoke but I would start — and rosé in prison if I took one for the team,” she says from behind the Diddly Squat farm shop counter, where I meet her on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. “I was like, ‘Actually I wouldn’t mind a bit of time out.
It’s quite busy’.” Dressed in a knitted white jumper adorned with sheep, her long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, the 51-year-old is confident, chatty and easygoing — a good match for Clarkson’s brand of provocative contrarianism. And yet, despite Clarkson’s ability to pick fights seemingly out of thin air, she was the one in trouble.
Why? Turns out, it’s all to do with that same farm shop, which Hogan runs and which functions as the nexus of the drama in the latest season of the show in which she stars alongside Clarkson. Hogan was told off by a member of the local council and warned that she faced a criminal record if she didn’t remove all items in the shop that hadn’t been produced within a 16-mile radius. They also threatened to close the shop.
She eventually complied.