Lisa Hogan has opened up about a difficult moment on the Diddly Squat farm that made her cry more than her partner Jeremy Clarkson, 64, had seen her before.
The 51-year-old Irish former actress and model was 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. I think you must be mad!
“It’s never dull, I’ll give you that,” Hogan shot back.
Hogan appeared alongside Dame Prue Leith on her show
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“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,” she explained.
She and Leith prepared marinated venison in flat bread burrata, 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.”
Hogan reflected on the sad death of piglets and the beloved sow Baroness on Clarkson’s Farm
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“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 the 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.
“My shoulders started going and I was like: ‘oh no, not now. I’m going to cry’”
However, Hogan revealed one of the surviving piglets had go on to have 14 babies of her own that had all survived.
Later, Leith complimented: “That programme of yours, you see the real struggles that farmers have, how difficult it is to make money.”
Hogan explained how she had been able to employ her “creative side” to make the Diddly Squat farm shop a success.
“He’s (Clarkson) very impressed, I think he’s a bit surprised,” she added.
