KALEB COOPER
Kaleb has become the unlikely star of Jeremy Clarkson’s fly on the wall documentary thanks to down-to-Earth manner.
Despite being the less senior of the two, Kaleb is regularly seen giving his boss Jeremy a dressing down, and has even claimed he is in charge of the operation.
Despite being the less senior of the two, the 24-year-old is regularly seen giving his boss Jeremy a dressing down, and has even claimed he is in charge of the operation.
Kaleb and Taya, who have a son, Oscar, recently announced they were expecting a baby girl
Now, born and bred in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, a small town with a population of just 6,337, Kaleb says he never wants to leave, despite his immense success.
Speaking to The Times magazine, he revealed the furthest he has ever travelled from his village is London, which he has visited three times, and hated, describing it as ‘f****** awful’.
The prospect of travelling abroad is even less likely, as the farming expert does not currently own a passport.
Last year, he revealed that he and his fiancée Taya are expecting a baby girl.
Kaleb shared the happy news on social media with a gender reveal video featuring two tractors blowing out pink exhaust.
The couple already have a young son, Oscar.
Following the success of Clarkson’s Farm, which debuted in 2021, he has built an army of a million Instagram fans and written a book.
GERALD COOPER
Gerald – no relation to Kaleb – is a dry stone waller who has won his own fan account despite having an accent so thick that many viewers have been left needing to turn on the subtitles.
The West Country native has been combine harvesting on the farm for 50 years and seems to have a constant smile on his face.
However in one hilarious encounter, Gerald is helping Clarkson to harvest crops but because of his thick West Country accent the Top Gear presenter was unable to understand him at all.
Gerald Cooper has stolen the show alongside Kaleb. Despite sharing the same surname the pair aren’t related
And in the end some of the crops were wasted because Clarkson couldn’t keep up.
In an interview with Farming Weekly, Clarkson admitted it was Gerald who originally inspired him to make the show.
‘He’s such a character, I knew he’d be great on TV,’ he said.
In 2021, Clarkson told the Oxford Mail: ‘It doesn’t matter if you can’t understand what he’s talking about, because he’s usually talking about Manchester United.
‘He’s fantastic. We’ve known each other for a very long time. He’s 72, also never been outside the village, but has worked on this farm for 50 years. He’s a great dry stone-waller, which is a dying art.’
CHARLIE IRELAND
Charlie is Clarkson’s land agent and advisor, who was hired in 2019 after the former Top Gear host first made the decision to run his own farm.
The University of Nottingham graduate is an agricultural specialist who advises the presenter on all aspects of farm management, from where to plant crops to managing the finances.
This role leads to him regularly having to tell Clarkson where he has gone wrong, leading to his ironic nickname of ‘Cheerful Charlie’.
Mr Ireland is a managing partner with Ceres Rural, an agricultural services firm in Saffron Waldon.
He previously worked as an agricultural consultant with Strutt & Parker for 20 years.
Charlie Ireland is an agricultural specialist who advises the presenter on all aspects of farm management, from where to plant crops to managing the finances
LISA HOGAN
Lisa is Jeremy’s girlfriend, and makes regular appearances on the show as the manager of the farm shop.
The Irish model, 49, is the ex-wife of multimillionaire Baron Steven Bentinck, and has previosuly jested that Jeremy ‘wears the trousers’ in their relationship.
She said: ‘We do have a really good relationship. Jeremy definitely wears the trousers but I’d like to think it’s fairly even, to be honest.’
Educated at the prestigious Alexandra College in Ireland, she got her big break in acting in the early 1990s, when John Cleese employed her as a researcher.
Jeremy kisses girlfriend Lisa Hogan as Kaleb awkwardly averts his eyes
She was later cast as a sea lion keeper in the 1997 comedy flick Fierce Creatures, starring alongside Cleese, Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Lisa was once referred to as Cleese’s muse, but denied any suggestion they were romantically involved, telling Irish Independent journalist Barry Egan: ‘We certainly didn’t have an affair. We were seen quite a lot but we used to work together. We got on well.’
In August 1997, Lisa – then aged 25 – had a near-death experience when her partner’s £1million private Lear jet crash-landed on the A40 dual-carriageway after it overshot the runway at RAF Northolt in London.Jeremy’s first marriage was to Alex Hall in 1989, however they split six months later when she left him for one of his friends.
In 1993, he married his manager Frances Cain and had children Emily, 28, Finlo, 25, and Katya, 23.
