Jeremy Clarkson has been quietly celebrating a milestone anniversary with his Irish partner, Lisa Hogan, this week as the couple enjoyed a romantic dinner for two to celebrate nine years together.

The couple have been living quietly in the Cotswolds for a number of years and running the very well-known ‘Diddly Squat Farm’, a project Clarkson has thrown his heart and soul into since moving from London to the countryside.

The homestead is the subject of a very successful television show, ‘Clarkson’s Farm’

The couple are quite the double act on screen, although the success of the farm as a business is also down to sheer hard work and determination.

The hit show details Clarkson’s struggles and successes in running the Cotswolds’ farm, from planning disputes to infrastructure issues like water and power connections, to the heartbreaking reality of a bovine TB outbreak earlier this year.

In a social media post on X back in July, the former Top Gear host said that everybody involved with Diddly Squat Farm was ‘absolutely devastated’ by the results of TB testing, which meant they would lose the herd.

Clarkson has been very upfront about the hardships involved in keeping Diddly Squat Farm afloat, with bad weather and torrential rain drowning the freshly planted crops earlier this year, and with issues of dried-up fields during the heatwave in June and July.

He wrote in the Times that the hot, unpredictable weather had been wreaking havoc on his crops.

He said: ‘It used to be reasonably predictable, but it just isn’t anymore. In March, Diddly Squat had no rain at all. Not even a drop. In April, we got 20mm, which in old money is bugger all.’

However, this week is all about celebrations as Clarkson and his Irish partner Lisa celebrate nine years as a couple, having initially met in 2017.

Both had been married before and have three children each from their previous relationships.

In a joint interview with The Sunday Times, Lisa spoke about how Jeremy got her to agree to move from London to the countryside by asking her to ‘help out’ by running the Diddly Squat Farm Shop.

Since then, Lisa has been an integral part of the Diddy Squat Farm business and the TV show, demonstrating a successful transition from big-city life in London to the quiet of the Cotswolds and life on the farm.

And the rest, as they say, is history.