Jeremy Clarkson had a colourful love life before settling down with Lisa Hogan. (Image: Getty)
host has a colourful romantic history. The 64-year-old presenter has been in a relationship with actress and model , 51, for the past seven years. However, he has been married twice before and is a father to three adult children.
Jeremy currently lives with Lisa, who appears on his TV show , which is set at his renowned Diddly Squat Farm. But his romantic journey hasn’t always been smooth.
The former star married Alex Hall in 1989, but she left him for his friend just two years later.
She later confessed that she had made a significant error, telling The Telegraph in 2011: “I can’t go into that because I have to think of my children and other people, but leaving Jeremy was the biggest mistake of my life.
“I still love him I always have but I believed that if you make your bed you’ve got to lie in it.”
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Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan have been together since 2017. (Image: Getty)
In May 1993, Clarkson wed his manager, Frances Cain, and they became parents to Emily, Finlo, and Katya. However, in 1999, Alex alleged that she and the TV star had embarked on a decade-long affair, reports .
Clarkson vehemently denied the allegations and initially sought an injunction, accusing Alex of blackmailing him for £300,000 – which she refuted.
He slammed Alex with a High Court injunction that racked up tens of thousands in legal bills. However, in an unexpected twist, he later sought to have the order rescinded, admitting his deep regret and lambasting: “Injunctions are a complete nonsense.”
Clarkson expressed at the time: “I overturned my own injunction because injunctions don’t work. If you take out an injunction there is the automatic assumption that you must be hiding something. Bear in mind my wife and I took out this injunction it wasn’t just me.
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Jeremy Clarkson married Frances Cain in 1993. (Image: Getty)
“Yet we came to realise, with Twitter and Facebook in play, you’re not really shielded anymore. The shift hasn’t been so much in the law but in its interpretation you cannot simply obtain an injunction and then drop the matter; the court insists on pushing you to trial, which comes with an exorbitant price tag.
“Should I win, it’s blasted across Twitter and Facebook anyway and I’m powerless to stop it. If I lose, the bill for her legal fees lands on my doorstep. Injunctions are complete nonsense. I look back in regret to the day I was counselled to get one.”
On being questioned about whether she tried to blackmail Mr Clarkson, Ms Hall’s spokesperson stoutly refuted the allegations, stating: “She can prove that is untrue. She told me that is totally untrue. She can and will prove that.”
Jeremy and Frances parted ways in 2014 when he reportedly became close to PA Phillipa Sage, whom he met on the set of Top Gear. Their relationship lasted until 2017, when he was seen with 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,” Phillipa revealed to Mail Online. “Then, one of my friends pointed out the photograph of him with another woman. I thought, ‘Oh yes, she’s definitely his type.”
Lisa said she has no intention of becoming Jeremy’s third wife. (Image: Getty)
“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?
“He told me to calm down. He told me she was just a friend, then a couple of weeks later he told me he wanted to be with her.”
He has never confirmed or denied these allegations.
Meanwhile, his current partner, Lisa, has no intention of becoming his third wife. Speaking to Fabulous magazine, she stated: “Mrs Clarkson? No, thank you, I like Lisa Hogan.”
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