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Jeremy Clarkson’s Ex-Wife Frances Cain Her Marriage, Family, and Life Now · Stories Today

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  Speaker 1: Look, if you've spent any time watching a tall, curly
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  Speaker 1: haired man shout its sheep in the Cotswolds recently, you
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  Speaker 1: probably think you know the story of Jeremy Clarkson. You
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  Speaker 1: see the muddy land rover, the pint of Hawkstone lagger,
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  Speaker 1: and the seemingly eternal presence of Lisa Hogan by his side.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're being honest, that's just the current chapter.
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  Speaker 1: To understand how a motoring journalist in massive debt became
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  Speaker 1: a global titan with a fortune recently estimated by outlets
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  Speaker 1: like Gloucestershire Live at a staggering fifty nine million pounds,
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  Speaker 1: you have to talk about Francis Kane in reality. Although
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy was the frontman, Francis was the engine, the gear
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  Speaker 1: box and the sat nave. For more than two decades,
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  Speaker 1: she had been not just the wife, but the wheel
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  Speaker 1: that turned a rough around the Edge's Yorkshireman into a
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  Speaker 1: smooth running, high value commodity. Now, as of twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: the world is looking at her influence anew the treasure
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  Speaker 1: hunt that changed everything image source Getdy Images. The way
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  Speaker 1: they met sounds less like a celebrity origin story and
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  Speaker 1: more like a classic British Sunday afternoon. It was the
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  Speaker 1: early nineties and they were part of a mutual friend
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  Speaker 1: group on a treasure hunt. At the time, Jeremy wasn't
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  Speaker 1: exactly a catch on paper. He was struggling with debt
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  Speaker 1: and trying to find his feet. But Francis saw something.
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  Speaker 1: She was working as a redundancy counselor then, a job
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  Speaker 1: that requires a spine of steel and a massive amount
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  Speaker 1: of emotional intelligence. She didn't just fall for the man,
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  Speaker 1: she saw the potential in the brand. They were married
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  Speaker 1: in May nineteen ninety three in Fulham, and soon afterwards
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  Speaker 1: she took over as his manager. Now here's a little
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  Speaker 1: known piece of trivia. Francis Kane was Jeremy's first wife.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy had a brief marriage to Alexandra Hall in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine. The first attempt at marriage stalled at the
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  Speaker 1: starting line. However, Jeremy's union with France proved to be
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  Speaker 1: a high performance endurance race that shaped his life. A
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  Speaker 1: legacy of valor and steel. There's a layer to Francis
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  Speaker 1: that people often miss, and it explains a lot about
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  Speaker 1: her resilience. She's major Robert Henry Kane's daughter. That name
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  Speaker 1: may not sound familiar, but it should. He was a
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  Speaker 1: real war hero, having won the Victoria Cross, the highest
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  Speaker 1: British honor in combat, during the Battle of Arnham. Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: was so inspired by her father's story that he made
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  Speaker 1: a documentary about him, called The Victoria Cross for Valor.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the few times you see the Jeza
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  Speaker 1: persona drop. He clearly had an immense amount of respect
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  Speaker 1: for the stock. Francis came from that same get on
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  Speaker 1: with it attitude was exactly what she used to steer
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  Speaker 1: his career through some of the BBC's most turbulent years.
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  Speaker 1: The brand Clarkson blueprint. For twenty one years, Jeremy Clarkson
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  Speaker 1: and Francis Caine were the ultimate power couple of the
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  Speaker 1: motoring world. They moved to the Cotswolds, raised three children, Emily,
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  Speaker 1: Finlow and Caddia, and built an empire. Here's the part
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  Speaker 1: that really hits home. In twenty twenty six, even as
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy settles into his farmer era, the foundations were laid
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  Speaker 1: by Francis. She was the architect of Better six, the
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  Speaker 1: company that handled top Gear's commercial exploitation. When that company
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  Speaker 1: was restructured, in twenty twelve, it had earned over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine million pounds in revenue. That's not
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  Speaker 1: just TV money. That buying a massive farm and a
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  Speaker 1: pub money. The new chapter enter Lisa Hogan. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't talk about today's Clarkson without talking about Lisa Hogan.
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  Speaker 1: If Francis was the architect of Empire. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa is running the shop in a very literal sense.
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  Speaker 1: The couple have been dadding since twenty seventeen, but the
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  Speaker 1: timeline goes even further back to when they were introduced
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  Speaker 1: to each other. On December ninth, twenty twenty five, Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: he got on Instagram with a heartwarming selfie and wrote
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  Speaker 1: nine years to celebrate almost a decade together. It's a
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  Speaker 1: massive achievement, especially since Lisa made him court her for
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  Speaker 1: three months solid before she became his girlfriend. Lisa, a
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  Speaker 1: former Irish model, met Jeremy at a party, but she
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  Speaker 1: was no pushover. These days, she's the face of the
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  Speaker 1: Diddley Squat farm shop, keeping the business afloat while Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: bumbles around with tractors, and as of early twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: the fans are still hounding them about wedding plans, but
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  Speaker 1: Lisa's answer remains affirm Missus Clarkson, no, thank you. She
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  Speaker 1: likes her independence. Why did Jeremy Clarkson and Francis Caine
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  Speaker 1: split Anyway, We have to look back to the end
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  Speaker 1: of that second marriage to understand the gap Lisa filled.
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  Speaker 1: The divorce from Francis in twenty fourteen was described by
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy as difficult and tormenting. It was a brutal time.
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  Speaker 1: He was losing his job at the b BA BC,
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  Speaker 1: his mother had recently passed away, and his first wife,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Hall, had resurfaced with claims of an affair. It
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  Speaker 1: was during this chaos that Jeremy eventually conceded the sex
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  Speaker 1: injunction he and Francis had taken out was complete nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: He realized that, in the era of Twitter, using a
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  Speaker 1: legal order to stop a story was like trying to
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  Speaker 1: stop a flood with a tea towel. The divorce brought
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  Speaker 1: an end to the era, but interestingly did not erase
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  Speaker 1: Francis's fingerprints from his success. Where is Francis came now
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. As of early twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Francis has done something quite remarkable she stayed private while
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy's life is documented daily on Amazon Prime. Francis has
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  Speaker 1: moved on with a quiet dignity. Their children are now adults.
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  Speaker 1: Emily thirty one, has become a successful podcaster and recently
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  Speaker 1: spoke about the weirdness of growing up with a public divorce.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear that while Jim Jeremy has moved on with Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: who he says is a huge support, the history he
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  Speaker 1: shares with Francis is the bedrock of everything he owns today.