Lisa Hogan announces exciting new work venture away from Diddly Squat as Clarkson’s Farm star shares career first
Clarkson’s Farm star Lisa Hogan is set to publish her first book, chronicling the adventures of Diddly Squat Farm.
Partner of Jeremy Clarkson, 64, Hogan, 51, appears on the Prime Video show as she helps the former Top Gear star with the running of the Oxfordshire farm.
In My Animals and Other Eejits, Hogan takes readers through a year in the life of the nation’s favourite farm.
From lambing season to harvest time via attempts to disrupt the mushroom market and constant derailments from red tape and tractor mishaps, Hogan’s new project takes fans behind-the-scenes.
Along the way she shares stories from her childhood in Dublin’s Sandymount, her former work as an actor, model and sculptor.
She also shares the stories behind the goats, cows and piglets that have captured the hearts of people across the world.
She stated: “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.
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“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.”
Recently, Hogan opened up on an emotional moment from the farm that left her in tears.
Speaking on ITV Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen. The 85-year-old cookery writer and broadcaster introduced Hogan as a woman who: “Has now swapped a life on the catwalk, in the social whirl, for a life farming in the Cotswolds, in the mud, all hours of the day and night with her boyfriend Jeremy Clarkson,” before she added: “I think you must be mad!”
Hogan replied: “It’s never dull, I’ll give you that, all that travel and everything else and now it’s just mud and guts. But I do love it, I’m a bit of a land girl.”
The two women prepared some food together, with the ingredients coming from the Diddly Squat farm
While they made the dish, Leith recalled: “One of the best moments I have seen on television is Lisa Hogan playing midwife to a sow giving birth to piglets. And you had your hand up the sow…”
Hogan cut in: “I was very humbled by the fact that she was kind of lying there and I thought ‘I’m sorry, I’m going to have to go inside you,” and she just relaxed and let me in because she knew I was trying to help.”
“I knew them all quite well anyway because I love going down and seeing the pigs,” she continued.
Leith praised: “It was so emotional because half of them (the piglets) were dead, you were crying but you were not stopping doing the job.”
“And the Baroness died,” Hogan added, reflecting on the moment both she and Clarkson became emotional after one of the animals had to be put down.
The pig had become seriously unwell, making her unable to walk or eat properly, and wasn’t able to mother her young.
Neither wanted to see her in pain and tearfully allowed their vet to let her die without suffering any further.
“I’m not a crier. Jeremy… I don’t think he’d seen me cry,” she admitted.