Romance on Clarkson Grand Tour
FORMER Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is dating the ex-wife of a playboy known as ‘Baron Bonkers’.
The motormouth presenter is romancing blonde mum-of-three Lisa Hogan, who is 10 years his junior.
Clarkson, 56, has taken her to Barbados where they are guests of impresario Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Clarkson, now hosting The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime with James May and Richard Hammond, was spotted with Lisa at the island’s airport.
The pair were picked up by Lloyd Webber’s chauffeur on Thursday before being taken to the composer’s Caribbean mansion on the exclusive Sandy Lane estate.
The presenter had a quick cigarette and clutched a bottle of Banks beer before he and Lisa were driven away.
An onlooker said: “Jeremy looked very relaxed around Lisa and they seemed very taken with each other. They were laughing and joking around like a new couple.”
Clarkson was divorced from his wife of 21 years, Frances, in 2014 after rumours of an affair with events organiser Phillipa Sage.
He was sacked by the BBC in 2015 for punching a Top Gear producer, and later romantically linked with TV boss Elaine Bedell and socialite Samantha Wickens before seeing Lisa.
The former model split from eccentric aristocrat Steven Bentinck – nicknamed Baron Bonkers – in 2005. They have three children together.
The divorcee, who is 6ft 2in tall and from Dublin, became friendly with Monty Python star John Cleese in the Nineties and was given a part in his film Fierce Creatures. She was flying to rehearsals when her private jet crashed on the A40 in west London.
Lisa, who walked along the wing to safety, later said the crash had been “quite liberating in a strange way”.
She explained: “Beforehand... I was very cautious of giving my heart away to anyone. But when you think, ‘I’m going to die’ you think, ‘God, I should loosen up a bit and just let myself fall in love’.”