The Yorkshire Vet star rushed to hospital after 'never spending night away from husband'
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Britain's oldest farming couple, Steve and Jean Green, have shared the secret to their 45-year marriage while filming the new series of The Yorkshire Vet spin-off, At Home With The Greens.
Steve, aged 96, had to endure a week of solitude when his wife Jean, 73, was hospitalised for surgery.
"They were like two smitten teenagers – they had never been separated until Jean's hospital admission. I thought I'd better leave, things seemed to be heating up," Peter shares with a grin.
"They'd never spent a single night apart until then, which just epitomises their relationship. There's never a harsh word, but there's plenty of laughter and joy along the journey. It might sound cheesy, but it's the truth."
Since the show's inception in 2015, Steve and Jean have won over viewers' hearts, while Peter has maintained a friendship with the couple for over half a century, reports OK!.
"I got to know them well when I was young," he reminisces. "They became one of my regular clients when I started work in Thirsk in 1982. I had this banter with Mrs Green right from the word go, and we've always had a close relationship. I've always loved going to their farm because of the banter we have."
Jean, known for her vibrant sweatshirts and the jingle of silver bracelets on her wrists, is quite the character on the show, while her husband may seem reserved, but Peter knows there's more to him than meets the eye.
"Stephen is more of a thinker, but once you get him going he's quite a conversationalist. When they were in the first flush of love, he would sit on his tractor out in a field, and he showed me some of the poems he would write to Jean there.When they renewed their wedding vows after 40 years, he produced one of the poems out of his pocket, which I thought was rather nice."
Peter concedes that filming with the straightforward pair can be tricky; Steve might be easing into his nineties, but Jean is as lively as ever, always on the lookout for the next escapade.
"You are never quite sure what she is going to come out with next. Some of it can be a little repetitive, some of it may not be suitable for television," he says with a laugh.
"We've got to accept them for who they are, and that their whole world revolves around their farm. You are limited to some extent what new things you can do with them, but Jean always has some ideas. In the new series she thinks about having a tattoo, and I never saw that one coming."
Jean enlisted Peter's aid to receive her very first tattoo, a detail that seems to have caught her husband Stephen by surprise. "Stephen had said to his daughter [Sarah, now 40] that if she ever came home with a tattoo, she would be kicked out," Peter relayed.
"I don't think he would have carried that out, he is such a gentle man. But when Jean came home with the tattoo on her arm, his face was a picture, and you could see in his mind that the old cogs were whirling away in there and he wasn't quite sure how to take it."
Beyond her ability to amaze her spouse, Peter shares that Jean avidly tracks The Yorkshire Vet ratings and revels in the numerous fan letters and gifts coming from places as remote as Australia.
"We get oven gloves, coffee, biscuits, calendars, little kangaroo pouches, random stuff," he says with a hint of amusement. "Jean loves it, she can't wait to open a parcel – not knowing what is inside is a huge attraction for her."
Peter is convinced that fans, particularly youngsters, are captivated by Jean and Steve due to their embodiment of a traditional Yorkshire lifestyle, suggesting that simplicity might just be the hidden gem behind the show's appeal.
With an air of contemplation about the modern, technology-driven environment, he contrasts the charm of these two characters to it: "In the world they live in now, children have got their own mobile phones, they have computer games," he notes. "These two people are so detached from that type of life – children find it fascinating."
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