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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Farmer Wants A Wife couple reveals sweet relationship update
Farmer Wants A Wife's Clare Hockings and Brad Jones celebrated several major milestones in the months after they filmed the reality show. Not only did she move to Cootamundra, NSW, to live with him, but the season 13 couple also bought a house and welcomed their first child together in December 2023. Since then, the success story has remained relatively quiet on social media. They've each only shared one photo of their son Roy on Instagram this year, which Clare tells Yahoo Lifestyle is a conscious decision. 'When I go to post something, I just think, would I care if I saw this picture of Roy in the local newspaper? Or would he care as a teenager if he saw a photo of him cuddling the dog or whatever?' she shares. 'I definitely am aware of not overdoing it and not putting him out there too much, but in saying that, it is just the nature of our lives now. 'I feel like people did watch us from the start and did support us and offered us a lot of support and everything, so I do feel like people are really interested in Roy - and not just Roy, in our day-to-day lives too. But in saying that, we live very boring lives.' RELATED: Farmer Wants A Wife winner exposes surprising filming conditions: 'So naive' Farmer Wants A Wife: Are Farmer Jarrad and Chloe still together? Farmer Wants A Wife contestant slams 'awful' editing this year: 'Worst season' Clare admits that she and Brad were 'so terrified' when they found out they were expecting so soon after filming Farmer Wants A Wife, and weren't sure how they were going to cope. 18 months after giving birth, however, she now knows it was 'all meant to be'. 'We have definitely learned a lot about each other in the last two and a half years, but we still have a laugh and torment each other, and we're both really enjoying being parents,' she says. 'I love watching him being a dad. We are in a hard stage of life, we are sort of still revolving around Roy a lot, but it's good. We're happy.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Clare Hockings (@clare_hockings) The one major relationship milestone Clare and Brad are yet to tick off is to tie the knot, which she hints will happen soon. 'We definitely have a bit of a plan and a bit of a rough idea of what we want to do and how we want to do it,' she teases. 'Hopefully, in the next year or two, we'll have an update for people.' SHOP: 🧣Aussie brand Oodie brings out new winter range '400 sold daily' ☀️ Tax laws to burn Aussies on summer essential: 'Many of us struggle' 💁♀️ The lash and brow oil that will save you hundreds at the salon The couple are set to return to screens in an upcoming episode of Farmer Wants A Wife, where host Natalie Gruzlewski checks in with various couples who found love on the show.
Daily Mail
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Farmer Wants A Wife star Clare Hockings reveals what the show is REALLY like behind-the-scenes
Farmer Wants a Wife star Clare Hockings has made the bombshell admission her glossy on-screen romance with Farmer Brad was anything but carefree behind-the-scenes. Clare, who fell in love with Farmer Brad Jones during the 2023 season, said she was completely unprepared for the rigid filming conditions and lack of personal freedom during production. 'I genuinely had no idea what I was getting into. I didn't realise the lack of control that I would have in everyday life,' she told Yahoo Lifestyle. 'There are times when you go to events for two or three days and the whole time you have to ask, "Can I go to the toilet, eat something, put a jumper on? Can I put a hat on?" I wasn't prepared for that.' The 29-year-old, who now lives with Brad in regional NSW with their baby boy, said the experience was far more intense than it appeared on TV. 'I was so naive. I thought I would go in, do a bit of farm work here and there. I didn't expect it to be a full day of cattle work, I thought it would be more relaxed than what it was,' Clare said. 'It does come across like that on TV, but it's very structured and controlled,' she continued. Despite the hardships, Clare and Brad are one of the show's biggest success stories, joining a growing list of couples who found lasting love on the Channel Seven franchise. The hit series has faced scrutiny in recent years for its growing focus on drama – with some viewers comparing it to Channel Nine's Married At First Sight. But Clare pushed back against the comparisons, saying: 'From what I've heard, I don't think it's as bad as MAFS... yet.' 'I definitely think MAFS is more intense and a lot harder mentally to film as a contestant. In saying that, Farmer definitely has the potential to become even more dramatic,' she added. The new season of FWAW is currently airing, with this year's bachelors already facing their own share of romantic tension and farmyard fallout. In December 2023, Brad and Clare stunned their fans by inadvertently sparking a rumour they were engaged. Clare posted a gallery of photos to Instagram of her and Brad celebrating Christmas with their newborn son Roy which fans apparently read too much into. One adorable photo shows the happy couple posing alongside a Christmas tree with their young bub and another shows a female hand, with an engagement ring, holding Roy. Fans immediately noticed the diamond ring on the hand and took to the comment section to ask Clare if she had secretly gotten engaged. However, Clare was quick to quash the rumours and clarified it wasn't her hand in the photo. While they may not have gotten engaged Clare and Brad achieved another milestone in December 2023 when the welcomed their first child. The fan favourites announced the exciting news on Brad's social media and shared a gorgeous photo of them doting over their newborn son. The photo, which appears to have been taken on Brad's farm, shows little Roy wrapped in a blanket, being held by his proud dad, while Clare lovingly looks on. 'Roy Grahame Jones has arrived,' he captioned the precious image. Brad and Clare won fans as their romance blossomed during the 2023 season of Seven's dating series FWAW and their relationship remains as strong as ever.
