LONDON — Kaleb Cooper, the 27-year-old farm manager from Clarkson’s Farm, wants tractors at his wedding. His fiancée, Taya Wilkinson, does not. That, by his own admission, is about the extent of his involvement in planning the ceremony.
Cooper disclosed details of the upcoming summer wedding in an interview with the Daily Mail. He and Wilkinson share three children — Oscar, five; Willa, three; and Ashton, whose birth was announced last August.
The couple is now set to marry, but Cooper was blunt about who is doing the work. “I want to say I’m really hands on but that’s a lie,” Cooper told the publication. “I can’t really say that, it is Taya that has done the majority of it.” The central dispute is not over the date, the venue, or the guest list.
It is over agricultural machinery. Cooper wants tractors and foragers present.
Wilkinson, according to Cooper, is opposed. “I want tractors there, I want foragers there,” Cooper said, “but Taya’s like I don’t really want tractors there if I’m being honest.” Cooper described the wedding as a shared dream, but acknowledged that Wilkinson has firm ideas about the ceremony’s aesthetic. “But Taya is very much like ‘I want it in a certain way, I want my dress to be a certain way’, which is good,” he said.
He added that a wedding is “a very special day for everybody, family included, so therefore you’ve got to have your own say of how you want it to go.” The couple’s planning dynamic mirrors the public persona Cooper has built on the Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm. He rose to fame as the gilet-wearing, straight-talking farm manager alongside Jeremy Clarkson, who has referred to his 27-year-old colleague as “the foetus.” The show, now in its fifth series, has turned the Cotswolds farm manager into a global celebrity.
Cooper’s insistence on including farm equipment in the wedding is not a random preference. It is the same world he occupies daily — tractors, foragers, fields.
The show’s audience has watched him operate that machinery for five seasons. Bringing it to the wedding would be, in his view, a natural extension of his life. Wilkinson appears to see it differently.
She wants a wedding without the tools of his trade. Cooper has not said whether he has conceded the point.
He has said she has done the majority of the planning, which suggests she may have the final say on the tractor question. Cooper’s candor about his lack of involvement is unusual. Most grooms in interviews claim to be helping.
He did not. He said he is not hands on. He said his fiancée is doing the work.
He said he wants tractors. He said she does not.
The wedding is imminent, according to the interview. Cooper gave no date. He gave no location.
He gave no indication of whether the tractor debate has been resolved. What he gave was a clear picture of two people with different visions for the same day — one who wants it to look like a farm, and one who does not.
Cooper’s fame has been built on being unpolished and direct. That same quality is now on display in his wedding planning. He is not pretending to be something he is not.
He is a farm manager who wants his wedding to include the equipment he uses every day. His fiancée is planning a wedding that, presumably, will not.
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