Lisa Hogan age is a surprisingly difficult question to answer if you rely on celebrity databases. Hogan — the Dublin-born former model, actress, entrepreneur and Clarkson’s Farm regular who is Jeremy Clarkson’s long-term partner — is variously listed online as having been born in 1971, 1974 or 1975. The strongest available evidence, however, points to 28 May 1971, which means Lisa Hogan is 55 years old as of September 2026.
The clue that resolves the dispute is not a modern celebrity profile. It is a newspaper report published 30 years ago, after Hogan survived a Learjet crash outside London.
| Fact | Best-supported information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Lisa Hogan |
| Birth date | 28 May 1971 — strongest available evidence |
| Age | 55 in 2026 |
| Birthplace | Dublin, Ireland |
| Known for | Clarkson’s Farm, Diddly Squat Farm Shop |
| Profession | Entrepreneur, TV personality; formerly model, actress and sculptor |
| Partner | Jeremy Clarkson |
| Children | Three, from her marriage to Steven Bentinck |
How old is Lisa Hogan? The evidence points to 55
There does not appear to be a publicly available birth certificate or official biography giving Hogan’s full birth date. But several pieces of evidence fit together unusually well.
On 14 August 1996, The Irish Times reported on a Learjet crash at RAF Northolt and identified passenger Lisa Hogan as 25 years old. The report was written at the time of the event, long before she became associated with Jeremy Clarkson and before celebrity websites had any reason to catalogue her age.
Her birthday is publicly marked on 28 May. Jeremy Clarkson posted a birthday tribute to Hogan on 28 May 2025, while subsequent Irish coverage also identifies 28 May as the date she celebrates it.
Put those facts together: if Hogan was 25 in August 1996 and had already celebrated her birthday on 28 May, she must have been born on 28 May 1971.
There is useful independent corroboration. In July 2012, the Irish Independent described Hogan as 41 years old. A person born on 28 May 1971 would indeed have been 41 that July.
That makes her 55, not 51 or 52, in September 2026.
Why do websites give different Lisa Hogan ages?
The confusion is unusually widespread. Famous Birthdays currently gives 28 May 1975, while a 2026 profile in The Sun gives 28 May 1974. The Evening Standard described her as 51 in July 2025 — yet the same article also correctly stated that she was 25 when the 1996 crash occurred. Those two statements cannot both be true.
This is a good example of why contemporary reporting can be more valuable than a modern celebrity database. A 1996 newspaper had no SEO incentive to alter Hogan’s age; it was simply reporting the age supplied while covering a major accident.
The safest formulation is therefore that the best-documented evidence supports 28 May 1971. Claims of a 1974 or 1975 birth year conflict with multiple older sources.
The 1996 plane crash that unexpectedly settles the age question
The accident is also one of the most consequential episodes of Hogan’s early life.
On 13 August 1996, she was the sole passenger on a Spanish Learjet 25 arriving at RAF Northolt from Palma, Majorca. The aircraft overran the runway, broke through the perimeter fence and collided with a van on the A40. The jet broke in two, but Hogan, the pilots and the van driver survived.
Hogan was travelling to London to work on the John Cleese comedy Fierce Creatures. Two days later, The Irish Times reported that she had told investigators she believed the pilots had been arguing shortly before the crash. The later official investigation noted that the pilots disputed that interpretation.
In later interviews Hogan has described the crash as an event that changed the way she thought about life and mortality. It was a dramatic episode decades before Clarkson’s Farm made her familiar to television audiences.
Before Clarkson’s Farm: modelling, John Cleese and sculpture
Hogan grew up in Dublin. Her father, Maurice Hogan, was an architect, while her mother, Arlene Underwood, had worked as a model. She attended Alexandra College in Milltown. Contemporary reporting from 1996 says she had herself worked as a model and had spent three years with John Cleese’s Fish Productions, first as a researcher and later as a production assistant.
That connection led to a small acting role in the 1997 comedy Fierce Creatures, alongside Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin.
Hogan later developed a career as an artist and sculptor. By the time Clarkson’s Farm became established, however, she had stepped back from sculpture to concentrate on Diddly Squat Farm Shop. In a Country & Town House interview, she described the shop as her “heart and soul” and discussed developing products, branding and relationships with local suppliers.
Marriage, children and Jeremy Clarkson
Before meeting Clarkson, Hogan was married to Baron Steven Bentinck. The Irish Independent reports that they married in 1998, separated in 2005 and completed their divorce in 2011. They have three children: Wolfe, Alice and Lizzy.
Hogan has also spoken directly about her first marriage and her three children in a 2024 RTÉ Radio 1 interview.
She and Jeremy Clarkson are generally reported to have become a couple in 2017, after mutual friends introduced them around a Christmas party. Their precise dating anniversary is slightly less tidy: Clarkson celebrated “nine years” together in December 2025, which would place the beginning of the relationship around late 2016. Public interviews and reputable profiles nevertheless consistently use 2017 as the start of the relationship.
As of September 2026, Hogan and Clarkson are not married. Marriage has repeatedly been joked about on Clarkson’s Farm, but current reputable reporting still describes Hogan as Clarkson’s partner or girlfriend, not his wife.
Diddly Squat gave Lisa Hogan a second career
Hogan is no longer simply “Jeremy Clarkson’s girlfriend” in professional terms. She co-founded and manages Diddly Squat Farm Shop, which opened in 2020, and has been closely involved in product development and branding. Penguin Random House’s biography for her first book specifically credits her with running the shop and developing products ranging from perfume to crisps.
Her book, My Animals and Other Eejits, was published in November 2025 and follows a year of life at Diddly Squat. Season five of Clarkson’s Farm then arrived on Prime Video in June 2026.
In 2026 Hogan expanded again. She and her son Wolfe launched Only Farmers, a platform designed to connect farms with customers and help farmers market stays, events, experiences and equipment. Farmers Weekly reported that the idea developed from conversations Hogan had with farmers visiting the Diddly Squat shop.
She has also been chosen to host ITV’s forthcoming Farming for Love, a British version of the Farmer Wants a Wife format. ITV was still recruiting participants in September 2026, with industry material placing broadcast in Q1 2027.
So the answer to “what is Lisa Hogan doing today?” is broader than Clarkson’s Farm: at 55, she is running a retail brand, co-building an agricultural platform, writing and moving into television presenting in her own right.
One figure that cannot be responsibly supplied is her personal net worth. There is no reliable, independently verified public valuation of Hogan’s wealth, and celebrity-site estimates should not be treated as fact.
Quellen
- The Irish Times, 14 August 1996 — contemporary crash report identifying Hogan as 25. Read the Irish Times report
- The Irish Times, 16 August 1996 — Hogan’s education, modelling work and career with Fish Productions. Read the follow-up report
- RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday with Miriam, June 2024 — first-person interview on her background, marriage, children and Clarkson. Listen on RTÉ
- Country & Town House — interview on Diddly Squat Farm Shop and Hogan’s work. Read the interview
- Irish Independent — profile covering family, education, marriage and the plane crash. Read the profile
- Amazon — official Clarkson’s Farm season-five information. Clarkson’s Farm Season 5
- Farmers Weekly — Hogan and Wolfe Bentinck’s Only Farmers platform. Read the Farmers Weekly report
- Fremantle — official announcement of Hogan as Farming for Love host. Read the announcement
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