Jeremy Clarkson’s partner, Lisa Hogan, has opened up about her hopes of getting engaged to the former Top Gear presenter.

Irish-born, former actress Ms Hogan, 51, has been dating the father-of-three, 63, since 2017 and features in his Amazon series Clarkson's Farm, filmed at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington. 

However, in a new interview, Ms Hogan joked she decided to take the next step in their relationship and take advantage of the leap year on February 29 in which women typically propose, claiming Mr Clarkson had no idea because he wasn't wearing his hearing aids.

In an episode of Clarkson's Farm, there’s a hint of the couple tying the knot as Mr Clarkson said: “I’ve got a big surprise for you,” as they walk through a field.

“Is it a proposal?” Ms Hogan asks, excitedly.

The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host pretends not to hear and shows her the surprise he was referring to, a fallen willow tree that was bursting back into life.

When pressed about the proposal, Mr Clarkson says: “I’ll think about the proposal, OK? I’m not ready yet.”

“Jeremy doesn’t think I proposed, but he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids, so no one will know."

However, when asked about the exchange, she said in a new interview: “I just thought I might surprise him.”

When asked if she proposed, she told The Times: “Jeremy doesn’t think I proposed, but he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids, so no one will know."

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Clarkson's Farm series 3

The TV star is due to return to screens in May as the highly-anticipated third series of Clarkson’s Farm launches on Prime Video.

It will follow Mr Clarkson, Ms Hogan, farming contractor Kaleb Cooper and the rest of their team as they run the Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.

In The Sunday Times interview, Mr Clarkson revealed that “behind the scenes, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong” due to several issues including changing weather conditions.

The TV star has also pivoted to look after pigs after struggling to rear sheep and cows as he felt they would bring “a bit of genuine happiness”.

However, he said that it was initially “unbelievably sad” as many of the piglets died.

He recalled: “I’ve never seen Lisa so upset. The film crew looked shellshocked.

“We had a catastrophically high level of deaths and I was desperately worried we were doing something wrong, but it turned out we weren’t, it was just that pigs are bad mothers – the sandy and black (breed) particularly so. That’s why it’s a rare breed.”