Kaleb Cooper wants tractors at his wedding. His fiancée Taya Wilkinson does not.
The 27-year-old farmer from Clarkson’s Farm told the Mail the couple marry this summer. They have three children, Oscar, five, Willa, three, and baby Ashton. Sources say the wedding is imminent, though the pair have kept the exact details quiet.
“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’, and I’m going: ‘You haven’t really got a choice!’”
The deal they struck
A compromise appears to hinge on two things. Cooper agrees to “things like yellow dresses for example”, and Wilkinson accepts that the day will be “very farm-driven”.
The guest list will be big, but the ceremony itself stays private. “We get married in a local place and then back to a farm for a big party,” Cooper said. He expects the room to mix “theatre, television people and farmers”. “We’re all in the same room, so it’s gonna go wild I think.”
Clarkson on the guest list
Jeremy Clarkson, 66, will be there. He calls Cooper “the foetus” on their Amazon show, and the two have become close friends since it launched. Clarkson is giving Cooper drink for the wedding, supplied through his Hawkstone brewery. Cooper says guests can “sit underneath the keg if they want”. His summary: “That’s the farm feral wedding we’re gonna have.”
Clarkson, who owns the Farmer’s Dog pub, disclosed in the latest episodes of the fifth series of Clarkson’s Farm that he has prostate cancer. He said the disease was “aggressive” but had been caught early. He had an operation to remove part of his prostate and said he suffered complications during treatment. A follow-up PSA test two months ago showed no sign of cancer. Cooper has been by his side throughout.
