Archive May 29, 2025

Harriet Cowan, a reporter for Kaleb Cooper as Jeremy Clarkson’s assistant on Diddly Squat Farm, has provided glimpses into her relationship over the years.

Reality TV star Harriet Cowan’s partner has been identified following her debut on the new season of Clarkson’s Farm. She has given glimpses into her relationship on social media over the years, including in recent months.

Harriet, 24, joined the cast of the Prime Video show for its fourth season, which launched last week. Introduced as cover for Kaleb Cooper, she’s helped Jeremy Clarkson on Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire. It’s been reported that Harriet isn’t set to return later in the series though. Since her first appearance in a trailer for Clarkson’s Farm, her life off-screen at home in Derbyshire has attracted attention. Harriet, who’s a nurse as well as a farmer, regularly posts about her life on platforms like TikTok.

She also shared information about her relationship with third-generation farmer James Booth, who is alleged to be the same person as him. Since posting about a “date night” with him in 2021, Harriet has updated readers about their relationship.

Her stepsister Elina Clifford – who has previously suggested that she has a tense relationship with Harriet – told the Daily Mail that Harriet and James have been dating for “some time”. Elina, whose mother is married to Harriet’s father, added: “I’ve met James a few times, he’s alright, he’s lovely but not sure what he is doing with Harriet.”

Over the years, Harriet has revealed details of her relationship with James, who she occasionally crosses paths with. She made the suggestion that her partner is four years older than her in a post from last month, alongside footage of him driving a tractor.

Additionally, the content creator suggested that she had a connection with James through a YFC (Young Farmers’ Club) organization. She remarked in her over-the-top video that the “butter effect” is crazy because she claims the pair “could never of met” if they hadn’t joined the growing industry.

Harriet wrote, “YFC gave me my entire life, and for that I will forever be grateful,” in the post’s title last month. She urged others to consider joining community organizations because they would “meet the greatest people” and encouraged them to do so.

Harriet teased that her relationship with some other couples last year. Your boyfriend brings you presents to unwrap, she wrote alongside a video of a hay bale being moved. I get to unwrap the bales with mine. We don’t all have the same DNA.

Other insights shared by Harriet having included her posting that they enjoyed a few days away to Liverpool together last summer. She also shared a photo of them in front of a tree on Boxing Day as part of her Christmas celebrations.

More recently, James was part of celebrations for Harriet’s birthday in March this year. She shared photos from the festivities, which included pals, on Instagram at the time and told her followers that it was “definitely one to remember”.

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Retired Olympic diver Tom Daley reveals details of his relationship with Dustin Lance Black and why he was made to feel he should not come out as gay by his manager

Tom Daley made the first move on his now husband Dustin Lance Black – but was advised not to come out as gay by some managers advising his career.

The Olympic diving star, 31, reveals details of their relationship and explains why he came out in a YouTube video 11 years ago as part of a new documentary about his career.

He met Dustin Lance Black during a low point in his diving when he was suffering from a lack of confidence, but that didn’t stop him making a play for Lance.

Tom says: “I got to a really low point with my diving where I thought I wasn’t going to be able to keep going like I didn’t see the point in carrying on. Meeting Lance, he kind of inspired me to want to carry on. Inspired me to want to be great at what I do. He inspired me to want to be the best person that I could be. It was really special, because I think it was the first time that I realised that being attracted to men wasn’t just a sexual thing. I actually could fall in love with a man.”

Lance says: “My phone, he puts his number in, and when he hands it back and I look at it, he’s put a winky face at the end of his phone number. No heterosexual man has ever put a winky face at the end of their number when they give it to another dude!”

Explaining how they bonded, Lance adds: “The first things we started sharing were about the fact that he had, not so long ago lost his dad. I had not so long ago just lost my big brother, who was like my dad, because I never had that. I had recently won an Academy Award. He had won his first Olympic medal.

“We were able to share with each other the post accomplishment blues and devastation, the way that when you win something you only ever dreamed about, there’s something inside you that disassembles and has to be put back together, and that there’s almost no one on the planet you can share that with, because people think, Well, gosh, you should be so grateful.”

But the relationship was not straightforward as Tom was not out as gay at the time they met and his management seemed keen to keep things that way.

Tom explains: “I remember organising a party and telling my management he (Dustin Lance Black) was coming. They said to me, ‘Oh, be careful of being photographed with Lance, because, you know, he is, like, a really big LGBT activist. You don’t want people thinking that you’re gay’. And I was like, ‘oh, would that be so bad? Like, okay’. And then I was, like, suddenly filled with shame.“

He later adds: “We had all kinds of crisis meetings about how we were going to deal with this. You’re gonna lose all your sponsorship. You’re gonna lose all your fans. Like, how are you ever gonna be able to compete in the Middle East, in Russia, in all of these countries? Kind of filling me with like, fear about what I should and shouldn’t do.

“It’s a really scary thing to have to feel like you are a slave to the culture in the media that we have in the UK, which can be really quite scary, knowing that I was gay from the age of three years old, and constantly having to live my life as somebody else, and putting on this person that I wasn’t was exhausting, and that was when I decided to come out publicly.”

On the pressure Tom felt to not come out from his management, Lance says: “You’re mismanaging one of the most important parts of who this person is, their heart, their love, their future relationships and families. That’s mismanagement. That’s a dereliction of duty, and he (manager involved) should have been dropped.”

Speaking in Tom Daley 1.6 Seconds, the diver also says he feels free now of pressure having retired and is looking forward to new adventures with Lance and their sons Robbie and Phoenix. “Only time will tell what my next journey will be,” Tom says.

“But I’m sure it’ll be filled with just as many highs, just as many lows, but I know for right now, spending time with Lance, Robbie and Phoenix is my priority.

“After my dad died, I was trying to fill that void. Looking back on it all, I realised that not doing it just for myself, being able to do it for my friends, my family, my teammates, my country, gave me the determination that I needed to be able to get through my career. I’m excited to see what the future holds. What, me, my boys and Lance achieve in the future.”

Tom ended his career with five Olympic medals to his name and at least one of every type; bronze, silver and gold.

In a forthcoming, candid portrait of his life, Olympic champion diver Tom Daley has been revealing the harsh treatment he received from sports executives during his campaign to capture the gold in an upcoming movie about his life.

Emotional Tom Daley has revealed in a new documentary how he was ordered to lose weight by sports bosses and it contributed to him having an eating disorder.

In March this year the Olympic diving star, 31, had told for the first time how he suffered from “all kinds of different issues around body dysmorphia and bulimia” during his career.

He goes further and explains what transpired in his new movie, though. In Tom Daley’s 1.6 seconds, he states: “At the end of 2011, I was told by our performance director at British diving that I needed to lose weight, that I needed to look slimmer, leaner, and more like I did in 2008; it was the first time I felt valued more than how I looked, but rather how I looked. Let’s say I took some very drastic measures to prevent the food from sticking in my stomach.

In the weeks leading up to the Olympic Games, I had a diary in which I would write my weight and date, but a rational person would know that I wasn’t fat. I felt like I was being kind of left on my own devices and kind of left with that struggle by myself because even when I was meeting with my sports psychologist, I was struggling to bring that out because every time I said it out loud, I knew it would sound silly, but in my head, it was the biggest thing I would always think about, every time I made a decision about what to eat, if I was going to eat it and then become so enamored that I had to do something about it.

Tom goes on to say that being alone throughout the early years of his career, he struggled to be open about how he felt to others.

He continues, “I still feel like ashamed talking about it now because, like, once you’re on the other side of it, it seems so simple to stop and ask for help, but when you’re in it, you feel like you can’t be helped,” he continues.

“Guys didn’t have eating disorders. Guys’ mental health was unaffected by anything. Guyanese were created as these macho creatures that would get into trouble whatever and just keep going. I didn’t know who I could talk to because I wasn’t. I felt very alone in every situation I was dealing with, which is the main theme here.

Sophie Lee, Tom’s close friend, also makes reference to the stresses that he was going through. She claimed that the eating disorder was more significant than the amount of stress and anxiety he was experiencing when he arrived in London in 2012.

Tom, the most decorated diver in the world, won five Olympic medals at the end of his career. When he first competed in Beijing at the age of 14, he returned five times to Paris last year, where he won a silver medal, and his two sons Robbie and Phoenix saw him in the Olympic pool.

He won a bronze medal at London 2012 shortly after receiving heavy jibes from British diving executives.

He and his wife Dustin Lance Black, their sons Robbie and Phoenix, spend more time at home now that he has retired from diving.

Tom says in the movie, “My entire life has been about diving.” Those 1.6 seconds have been my life’s goal since birth. I would not change a thing after four years of training for a task that would pass in less than ten seconds.

“I’ve had the best time, met the most amazing people, and traveled to incredible places, and it’s been the best 23 years that I can imagine.” Although there have been times when I felt like I couldn’t continue, it has also been incredibly difficult and challenging. I kept going.

“I think the one thing that I’m looking forward to is having the opportunity to share this with Robbie and Phoenix and preserve that memory for the rest of my life,” he said. I feel very fortunate to have people who can now make me feel completely at ease with anything and everything.

“But I think that also comes from letting my guard down, because my guard was up for the longest.”

*On June 1st, Tom Daley 1.6 Seconds will be available on Really and TNT Sports.