She once had a glamorous career in the modeling industry, gaining recognition for her stunning looks in the 1990s.
Dublin-born beauty Lisa Hogan, 49, previously lived in Switzerland, Majorca, and London before settling in the Cotswold Hills of Oxfordshire.
The mother-of-three, who has been dating ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson since 2017, also has a string of acting credits under her belt.
However nowadays she swapped her glam life to gallivant around fields in muddy wellies with her petrolhead partner as they film Amazon series Diddly Squat Farm.
The Dublin-born beauty Lisa Hogan, 49, had a glamorous career in the modeling industry and quickly gained recognition for her stunning looks in the 1990’s
The series documents the ex-Top Gear presenter’s frequently failed attempts to introduce innovations at his 1,000-acre farm, much to the bemusement and exasperation of the locals.
Lisa is 10 years younger than twice-divorced Clarkson, 61, but almost matches him in height at a statuesque 6ft 2in beside his 6ft 5in frame.
And although Clarkson’s life has certainly been eventful, his girlfriend’s jet-setting, glamorous, and sometimes dramatic past gives him a run for his money.
While studying at the prestigious Alexandra College in Ireland, ambitious Lisa was was working towards a career in modelling.
She started out as a fashion model working with various brands and her talents were soon recognised when she got her big break in the entertainment industry in the early 1990s when John Cleese employed her as a researcher.
She was later cast as a sea lion keeper in the 1997 comedy flick Fierce Creatures, starring alongside Cleese, Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis.
She was once referred to as Cleese’s muse, but denied any suggestion they were romantically involved.
Lisa was cast as a sea lion keeper in the 1997 comedy flick Fierce Creatures, starring alongside John Cleese, Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis
The mother-of-three, who has been dating ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson since 2017, also has a string of acting credits under her belt (pictured together on holiday in Asia in 2019)
She told Irish Independent journalist Barry Egan: ‘We certainly didn’t have an affair. We were seen quite a lot but we used to work together. We got on well.’
It appears Lisa followed in her model mother Arlene Underwood’s footsteps as she entered the world of entertainment.
After mother-of-four Arlene was widowed at the age of 41, she enrolled at Trinity College Dublin where she studied for a doctorate, before going on to set up Friends of the National Gallery.
Lisa recalled: ‘I saw her pushing through and going into a lot of zones that she’d never been in before. I’d come home with my sisters after school and mum would just be writing these essays. She’d say, “I haven’t used my brain for so long, and I can’t ever remember writing anything like this”, and she’d just be sobbing.
She added she was ‘so proud’ of her mother.
Lisa has also inherited her parents’ artistic skills and now runs a studio in London where she crafts figurative and animal sculptures which have gained a cohort of fans on Instagram.
Lisa was once the wife of multi-millionaire Baron Steven Bentinck, a Madrid-based private art collector, and nephew of the late steel tycoon Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon Heini, who once boasted he had £50m of annual disposable income.
Lisa was once referred to as John Cleese’s muse, but denied any suggestion they were romantically involved, telling Irish Independent journalist Barry Egan: ‘We certainly didn’t have an affair. We were seen quite a lot but we used to work together. We got on well.’ Pictured together in 2008
Jeremy and Lisa, pictured attending The Sunday Times AA Gill Award for emerging food critics at The River Cafe on June 16, 2019, have been dating since 2017
It was Lisa who filmed much of Clarkson’s Farm, the new Amazon Prime series which documents the ex-Top Gear presenter’s frequently failed attempts to introduce innovations at his 1,000-acre farm, much to the bemusement and exasperation of the locals
The former couple married in the late 1990s and had three children – Wolfe, Alice and Lizzy – with Lisa dividing her time between London, New York, a mansion in exclusive Swiss ski resort Klosters, Norris Castle on the Isle of Wight, and Moyns Park – a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house on Lord Ivar Mountbatten’s 444 acre stately pile in Essex.
They’d also holiday on Bentinck’s £5million Zaca A Te Moana yacht – a 150ft replica of Errol Flynn’s famous yacht Zaca.
Lisa and Bentinck split in 2005 and Lisa allegedly employed Prince Charles’s divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton to represent her in the proceedings. Their divorce was finalised in 2011.
By this point Lisa was a fully-fledged member of high society, counting the likes of AA Gill and Bryan Ferry as friends.
Lisa, who lost her father Maurice Hogan, an architect, when she was 14 after he dropped dead of a heart attack, is the step-daughter of Raymond Keaveney, former director of the National Gallery in Dublin.
In August 1997, Lisa – then aged 25 – had a near-death experience when her partner’s £1million private Lear jet crash-landed on the A40 dual-carriageway after it overshot the runway at RAF Northolt in London.
Lisa was the only passenger on board, travelling from Palma to rehearse for Fierce Creatures in the UK, and told how she was ‘almost a goner’ after the captain had tried to make her sit in a certain part of the plane.
‘I insisted on sitting where I was, which was just as well because that was the area where the van came through when we crashed and I would have been killed instantly,’ she told Egan.
‘When the plane crashed I phoned the production office [of the film] and told them I was stuck in a traffic jam. They were like, “Everybody’s late because a bloody plane landed on the motorway”. I was embarrassed.’
In an interview with Amazon about running Diddly Squat Farm, Lisa said she’s ‘learned a lot’ – largely as her boyfriend ‘didn’t have a clue’ while she’s ‘quite practical’.
Clarkson – who has three children, Katya, Emily and Finlo – praised his partner for ‘working her socks off’ on their new endeavour, adding: ‘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’
Lisa and Bentinck split in 2005 and Lisa allegedly employed Prince Charles’s divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton. They officially separated in 2011
Lisa who was born in Dublin and has lived in Switzerland, Majorca, and London works at the Diddly Squat Farm shop
‘He knows roads, but he doesn’t know land that much,’ she said. ‘There was a big learning curve, but he’s such a prolific character, once he puts his head to something it’s just full-on.’
She added that she keeps trying to move to London but ‘must be a country girl at heart’ because she ‘always seems to end up there’.
‘And that’s where I seem to be happiest,’ she admitted. ‘I have a studio in London that I try to go to once a week, and Jeremy calls it “pavement-itis” where I just need the pavement under my feet.’
Meanwhile Clarkson – who has three children, Katya, Emily and Finlo – praised his partner for ‘working her socks off’ on their new endeavour, adding: ‘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.’
Like the show’s farmhands, Lisa is not one to be cowed by the bombastic presenter in the show. In one scene she gives him short shrift when she discovers that rather than a pond to attract more animal life to the farm, Clarkson has, in fact, created a muddy quagmire.
‘What the f*** are you doing up here?’ she erupts. ‘It’s a wetland area,’ retorts Clarkson.
‘Holy s***, Jeremy! What are you gonna do with all this soil? Nothing’s going to come and live here!’ she responds. She also witnessed both the moment Clarkson gets stung on the bottom by a bee, and when a truculent sheep catches him with a well-aimed kick to the groin.
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