Although legally still married to his estranged wife Frances, Jeremy Clarkson has been happily ensconced with Lisa Hogan for almost a decade.
And now the Clarkson’s Farm star wants to help others find love.
He is planning to launch a matchmaking website, with its name a cheeky take on adult content site OnlyFans.
Clarkson wants to call his lonely hearts club OnlyFarmers.
I can disclose that the firm behind his Diddly Squat Farm Shop, in Oxfordshire, Curdle Hill Farm Ltd, has applied to the Intellectual Property Office to trademark OnlyFarmers. He wants to market merchandise including clothes and ‘matchmaking services’, according to documents lodged last week.
Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan – who have been together for almost a decade – in 2019
Clarkson, 65, has been estranged from Frances, 60, since 2011. The Army major’s daughter exchanged vows with the former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter in 1993 and they have three children.
Their separation was complicated by the fact that amiable Frances was working as his manager as well as being his wife.
He described it as ‘a difficult divorce’ in 2014 and it was never finalised. Clarkson’s first wife, Alex Hall, who divorced him in 1990 after a six-month marriage, had urged Frances to take him to the cleaners.
He began courting Lisa, 51, in 2017. The Irish mother-of-three was ‘discovered’ in the 1990s by John Cleese, who gave her a minor role in his film Fierce Creatures.
She was previously married to Steven Bentinck, nephew of Europe’s greatest art collector, the late Baron Heini Thyssen.
Lisa helps Clarkson run Diddly Squat and has become a star of the Prime Video docu-series.
Clarkson, who declared last week, ‘I’m never starting another business’, is keen to play down the OnlyFarmers matchmaking venture. He tells me: ‘Lisa registered the name because she liked it, but can’t think what to do with it yet.’
Hairy moment for Strictly’s Oti while live on air
Former Strictly Come Dancing pro Oti Mabuse
A picture of confidence when performing on Strictly Come Dancing or acting as a judge on Dancing on Ice, Oti Mabuse was left embarrassed when Joel Dommett failed to tell her that her wig was slipping off live on air.
The Masked Singer presenter was interviewing her at the Brit Awards. ‘I was getting warm and could feel the wig slipping back,’ recalls Oti, 34. ‘I was on the ITV table with Joel. I said to myself: “Why is this guy looking up?” I feel a draught, then check myself in my phone – it’s halfway down my head. It’s like, “These white people will never tell me my wig has fallen.” ’
- As car-stealing reprobate-turnedsuperspy Eggsy in the Kingsman films, Taron Egerton was taught ‘manners maketh man’ by Colin Firth’s character. And the Hollywood star, 35, has had some humility drummed into him in real life, too. ‘By the time I was 17, I knew I wanted to go to drama school – this goes back to me being an insufferable attention-seeker,’ he says. ‘I auditioned everywhere. They said I was a little unprepared and a little cocksure of myself. That took me down a couple of pegs.’
Male guests in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, such as Sir David Beckham, kept their coats on in soaring temperatures yesterday. But the heat has got to the Henley Royal Regatta. ‘The committee has decided that members and guests are not required to wear jackets in the Stewards’ enclosure on Tuesday,’ it announced. During a previous heatwave, I remember an announcement being made at Henley: ‘Members may remove their jackets – gentlemen will prefer not to.’
West’s ‘von Trapp’ clan wow at Glasto
Dominic West made sure three of his children ‘earned’ their tickets for Glastonbury.
Martha, 26, and his two sons, Senan, 16, and Francis, 13, took part in a family performance on stage at the University of Glastonbury at Worthy Farm, Somerset.
While West – who played Prince Charles in The Crown and Jimmy McNulty in The Wire on TV – read sonnets, Martha performed her own poetry and the boys played acoustic songs that they’ve been working on. ‘We’re like the von Trapp family,’ West, 55, tells me.
‘It was rightly cobbled together. It gave us a bit of structure to the weekend, which is nice.
‘Otherwise, we go a bit crazy. I had to do something and sing for our supper a bit.’
There was, however, a hitch the night before.
‘Senan went out all night and lost his voice,’ he says. ‘I went out all night and I couldn’t remember anything.’
Ncuti Gatwa stepped into the Doctor’s shoes – the character’s fifteenth reincarnation – for just two series
Doctor Who star says acting reduced him to a ‘product’
He had one of the shortest Tardis tenures of any Time Lord, and now Ncuti Gatwa has said he felt like ‘a product’ while working in certain types of acting.
Doctor Who star Gatwa, 32, who previously appeared in Netflix’s Sex Education and Barbie, says: ‘At the moment, I’m very into indie film and theatre.
‘What I’ve discovered at this stage in my life is I feel like those two processes feel the most generous to an actor.’
Speaking at the Pilton Palais cinema tent at Glastonbury, the Scottish-Rwandan actor explains: ‘There’s a lot of times as an actor where you can feel very much like a product. In film and theatre, I feel like I’m the least of those things, they make you feel more like an artist.’
The food at Keith McNally’s restaurants in New York seems to have aphrodisiacal effects – for staff at least. ‘Two months ago I caught a couple of workers having sex in the basement,’ he says. ‘At first, I got angry. Then I thought: “They’re 22 and 23, there’s nothing wrong with them having sex.” I didn’t fire them, I just said: “Don’t do it again downstairs, do it again somewhere else.” ’ McNally, who once had a five-year affair with the playwright Alan Bennett, adds on Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast: ‘I didn’t mention it to HR because they’re waiters.’
