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Daily Mirror
3 days ago
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Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen reflects on farm future as she makes candid admission
Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen was faced with extreme weather Channel 4 broadcast a repeat episode of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids on Saturday evening. The episode, which originally aired earlier this year from the second series, showed the farm facing harsh weather conditions as it became blanketed in snow, with the family struggling to safeguard their expectant sheep spread across the hillsides. Clive expressed his worries about the snow, saying: "January and February were funny months, and anything can happen. That Beast from the East was quite nasty, the kids were little and we had no electric for a week." He continued: "You know, everybody gets a little bit of snow, but it can be absolutely unbelievable here, and you've got to be careful, otherwise it'll have you out of business." Amanda shared her thoughts on the bitter snow conditions: "When that snow hits, it can be exhausting. It can be exhausting mentally and physically. Day one, day two, yeah, it is fun, day four, five, six, seven, and beyond, it is a real test.", reports Gloucestershire Live. Further into the programme, Amanda made a frank confession about farming, particularly during severe weather conditions. Whilst caring for the horses, she revealed: "On a day like today, when you see that light shine through the window and you know that it's icy and snowy out there, you don't pull the duvet over your head; you're like, 'Let me at it'." She pondered: "Because that's what you have to do. And I always think to myself, 'the day that you don't want to do that, you've got to quit'." Initially hitting our screens in 2018, Our Yorkshire Farm showcased the extraordinary way of life of Clive and Amanda Owen with their nine youngsters at their remote sheep farm in Yorkshire. Amanda and Clive are mum and dad to nine children: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine, and Nancy. The beloved documentary programme concluded in 2022 after Amanda and Clive's split. Continuing to enchant viewers, the Owens have made a comeback with the following instalment of their journey in Our Farm Next Door, following the family's escapades as they restore a period farmhouse situated in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales countryside. The 1800s dwelling sits in Swaledale close to Ravenseat Farm and bears the name Anty John in honour of a previous occupant called Anthony John Clarkson. In the final instalment of series two, Amanda gathered the entire brood to unveil the most recent progress in their continuing restoration project following 20 months of grafting, highlighting "how far we've got and how far we've got to go". Our Farm Next Door is available to watch on All 4.
Daily Mirror
12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen shares tribute to co-stars and family with unseen snaps
Amanda Owen has shared a behind the scenes look at her Channel 4 series, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids Amanda Owen has offered followers an exclusive glimpse behind the cameras of her Channel 4 reality programme, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, through a fresh social media update. The Yorkshire shepherdess, 50, who rose to prominence in the popular series Our Yorkshire Farm, turned to Instagram to post a heartfelt tribute to the production crew, alongside her family. She uploaded snaps from filming days across the Yorkshire Dales, plus adorable selfies featuring her children and wider family. "Here's some of the team from behind the scenes. Paul, Rebecca, Lindsay, James, Mark and Jayne," Amanda wrote. "And obviously the family as well as a good few folk that you'll recognise from your tv screen as they showcase their skills in the renovation of the farmhouse." Amanda went on: "Richard, Harry, Kelly, David for livening up the everyday. Ken and Stephen, Sonny and Capper,and uncle Tom Blooming Cobbly. This is in no way covers everyone involved in this epic undertaking, some are more elusive whilst others are pretty legendary in their own right ! "Though rest assured that all of the people who have played a part in bringing Anty Johns back to life are acknowledged and wholly appreciated. Thank you team and keep up the good work. #ourfarmnextdoor #channel4 #wiseowl #renovation #tv." Supporters were delighted by the unusual peek behind the scenes of Our Farm Next Door, with countless rushing to respond to Amanda's social media upload, reports the Manchester Evening News. "What great photos love seeing this beautiful home .. and its history .. past and future .. come together," one fan gushed, while another chimed in: "Great family great series great photos proper telly." A third admirer remarked: "Thanks for sharing and acknowledging all those involved in your major ongoing project. Great to see it gradually coming together and saving a former heritage building," and another added: "Love seeing you all .... just look how well they are growing up xx." Our Farm Next Door documents the journey of Amanda and her ex-husband Clive, parents to nine children, as they breathe new life into a dilapidated farmhouse close to their family farm. The ten-episode series debuted on Channel 4 in October 2024, riding on the coattails of the immensely popular Our Yorkshire Farm on Channel 5, which first aired in 2018.
Daily Mirror
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Amanda Owen gathers whole family for 'momentous' home update
Amanda Owen said it was "momentous" as she gathered her family for an important announcement during the final episode of Our Farm Next Door The much-loved reality show Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids rounded off its second series on Tuesday. First gracing screens in 2018, Our Yorkshire Farm shares the unique lifestyle of Clive and Amanda Owen alongside their nine children on their secluded sheep farm in Yorkshire. Amanda and Clive are parents to nine children: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine, and Nancy. The popular documentary series wrapped up in 2022 following Amanda and Clive's separation. Still captivating audiences, the Owens have returned with the next chapter of their lives in Our Farm Next Door, charting the family's adventures as they renovate a historic farmhouse nestled in the idyllic countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. The 1800s property is located in Swaledale near Ravenseat Farm and it is named Anty John after a former owner called Anthony John Clarkson, reports Leeds Live. In the closing episode of series two on Tuesday evening, Amanda brought the whole clan together to reveal the latest developments in their ongoing renovation after 20 months of hard work. Even in the middle of the busy lambing season, Amanda found time for her family to gather at Anty John's and reflect, commenting: "There's a lot going on but we have managed to make time today to gather everybody, the whole family, to come to Anty John's. So this is quite momentous really. "There's a little bit more warmth, things are greening up a little bit, so it's all about new life and new starts and all the rest of it. So I guess that ties in very nicely with Anty John's as that's certainly a new beginning." As the family came together for an outdoor picnic on their land, Clive remarked: "Ay, it looks well now, doesn't it?" while conversing with Richard, Kelly, and David who were also present at the property. Reflecting on the journey, Amanda mused: "I suppose to reflect really on how far we've got and how far we've got to go", acknowledging that the restoration process has been a "huge learning curve". In the midst of this reflection, there was light-hearted banter about whether the estate would fall into ruin once more, prompting Amanda to firmly retort: "No it will not ever be a ruin again, if Reuben moves in, yes it will become a ruin again!" Looking towards the future, Amanda revealed her plans: "Work is continuing and we're forging ahead, it's like we're nearly onto the next stage. Once we've got the plaster on and the floor done, there's no reason why some of this stuff [the furniture] can't go up there", asking for her daughters' help in styling the property. At the close of the episode, a Channel 4 teaser left viewers in suspense with the message "to be continued..." etched across the screen.
Daily Mirror
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Truth behind Our Yorkshire Farm Amanda Owen's struggles as fans raise concern after TV appearance
A television appearance left fans of Amanda Owen - the popular star of Our Yorkshire Farm - raising concerns online about her wellbeing, after she had been through a turbulent few years in her personal life Amanda Owen, 50, quickly captivated TV audiences when she first graced our screens seven years ago - but despite how well she manages to balance her work on the farm with taking care of her nine children - rarely with a hair out of place - things haven't always been easy for her over the last few years. Amanda first met her husband Clive, 69, when she was only 21 years old and training to work as a shepherdess - her natural good looks and height meant she first tried her hand at modelling, but didn't enjoy the career whatsoever. The pair quickly formed a romance, although there is a large age gap between them. Clive is 19 years older than Amanda and already had been married, divorced and had two children when they first met. Their life together on Ravenseat Farm captured the attention of the public and their show swiftly became a big hit for Channel Five, but despite their professional successes, the couple were struggling behind closed doors and announced they had separated in 2022. Clive and Amanda are coming back together for a new series of their spinoff show - Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids - but on a recent TV appearance the Yorkshire Shepherdess took part in left some fans concerned about how she is doing. Amanda appeared on Lorraine and discussed her relationship with Clive, candidly admitting that "it's not all sunshine". "It's about moving forward. We've got plenty to amuse ourselves. There's space," she said. There's room to get away from each other, if we're being absolutely brutally honest here. "If we got on like a house on fire we wouldn't be separate would we? But the fact of the matter is, we've got nine children, I think people think we lose track of the fact we do reality, reality comes with its ups and downs." Amanda continued: 'It's not all sunshine and spring time. That's the reality, the reality is, we are just getting on with our lives and making it up as we go along." Some of her fans were quick to voice their worries about Amanda on social media, per the Mail Online, with one writing: "'Is Amanda ok? Something doesn't seem right" and many others pointing out that in their opinion the popular TV star didn't seem very well or her usual self. Despite her popularity, life in the limelight is never completely easy - and when details about Amanda's relationship with another man, who had worked as her web designer, came to light in 2023 her personal life was put under new scrutiny. Robert Davis, 71, was married to someone else during his relationship with Amanda - Yasumi, 56. When his wife found about their romance she was left devastated, and has been candid publicly about her thoughts on Amanda, who she accused in an interview with The Sun of "not caring" about the damage she had done to their 12 year long marriage and living a "double life". "He rang Amanda in front of me and told her I knew about their affair and that it was over," investment banker Yasumi said. "He said they'd been having an affair for a few years. But instead of acknowledging the pain I was suffering, he was more concerned about protecting her TV career. She didn't care how I felt and didn't show any compassion. "I'd watched Our Yorkshire Farm and couldn't help but be impressed by her. She portrayed herself as a wife and a mother, devoted to family, hard-working and an inspiration to others. "But she's been lying to the British public and living a double life." However, Amanda has insisted that her web designer boyfriend - who she has since reportedly split up with - was never a secret from her husband and that Clive was actually the one who suggested they would hit it off. "'I never set out looking for another relationship. Rob [Davies] was a friend that Clive and I had both known for a long time. He put together the farm website and the digital aspect of the business, everything that we couldn't do. "What he offered was conversation rather than confrontation, and Clive knew about it from the very beginning – he actually suggested Rob and I would be a good match," she told the Mail Online in 2023, adding: "At that point, a few years ago now, Clive was also seeing someone else and was openly dating. It wasn't a secret, everyone roundabout knew, even the children." For his part, Clive said he didn't blame anyone for the breakdown of his marriage but himself, explaining his "anger drove Amanda away" and that the couple were engaged in regular arguments. He also admitted that he had been enduring a period of depression, which led to him drinking too much and that he was envious of Amanda's popularity and professional success.
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Amanda Owen's dream life on the farm derailed: How it's gone wrong for Yorkshire Shepherdess once branded UK's most 'authentic' star
She appeared to have the perfect rural life when she shot to fame seven years ago starring in the Channel 5 show Our Yorkshire Farm alongside her husband Clive, 69, and their nine kids. During the pandemic, the show grew ever more popular with viewers captivated by Amanda Owen 's life on the farm as they watched her lambing, battling the elements, parenting nine children and somehow looking naturally beautiful through it all. Owen met her husband in 1996 when he was already divorced with two children, after she arrived at his farm as a 21-year-old trainee shepherdess. They quickly fell in love despite the age gap and had nine children together, with their life on the farm capturing legions of fans. Springwatch presenter Kate Humble summed up the feelings of fans, by praising Amanda for being 'absolutely authentic' and showing the real life of a 'hard-working woman', who gave up her career as a model for farming life. But for the Yorkshire Shepherdess, 50, the last few years have been anything but smooth. From the breakdown of her marriage, a five-year love affair with her married web designer being exposed and her older children fleeing the nest to go to university, the TV star has faced a slew of personal trials and tribulations. And now, as the second series of Amanda and her ex-husband's new show, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, hits screens, fans are growing concerned and claiming 'something doesn't seem right' after she acted erratically during an appearance on Lorraine this week. The programme follows the former couple, who split in 2022 after 22 years of marriage, as they renovate an abandoned farmhouse into a home with the help from their children. Appearing on Lorraine on Tuesday, Amanda opened up about family life now as they continue to co-parent, which left worried viewers questioning whether she was okay. Speaking about her relationship with Clive, Amanda said: 'It's about moving forward. We've got plenty to amuse ourselves. There's space. 'There's room to get away from each other, if we're being absolutely brutally honest here. 'If we got on like a house on fire we wouldn't be separate would we? But the fact of the matter is, we've got nine children, I think people think we lose track of the fact we do reality, reality comes with its ups and downs. She candidly added: 'It's not all sunshine and spring time. That's the reality, the reality is, we are just getting on with our lives and making it up as we go along. 'With nine children, we have to adapt. it's about adapting to make things work for you. Everyone finds themselves in a unique situation and we have to. 'Actually, I'm quite proud of how we're going on. It's about priorities, right?' She signed off the question with: 'What's important, everybody is getting on, everybody is happy, everybody is making it work. As for the rest of it, too bad.' Some watching at home took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their concerns. They wrote: 'Is Amanda ok? Something doesn't seem right #Lorraine' and 'Wow, Amanda is not looking well at all #lorraine.' Others quipped: 'She doesn't look well' and 'She does not look well & yet Lorraine totally oblivious … or ignoring it.' Fan concern is not surprising after Amanda won hearts with her down-to-earth attitude to everything from the hard work that goes into running a farm to child rearing. She grew up in a traditional three-bed house with her parents and one sibling in the large market town of Huddersfield. At 6ft 2in she was encouraged to follow the same career path as her model mother, but she hated the clothes and make-up that she had to wear. Then one day, she chanced upon a book about shepherding. 'It was the pictures, the landscape, the haggard faces of the men gathering in the fells, and the dogs... I thought "that's my dream",' she said on the Channel 5 show. 'In fact I couldn't believe that kind of life really existed,' she added. Owen left her comfortable town life to work on farms around the country, but it's when she knocked on the door of Ravenseat Farm that she found her calling. 'I was destined to come here - I'm absolutely sure of it,' she said on the lived on the 2,000-acre plot of land and, despite 21-year age gap, the couple quickly fell in love and married in 2000. Their nine children help out on the farm when they are not at university or school - or travelling to and from as the journey takes one-and-a-half hours each way. 'In order to make a big family work they all need to tow the line. It's not about child labour - it's about pulling together,' Owen told the Daily Mail in an article in 2018. 'The snowflake generation, they can't do anything,' she previously told the Radio Times. 'They don't know anything about how to look after themselves, or a work ethic, all of that has gone out of the window. It's our fault as parents. 'If you put your child on a pedestal, with no sense of independence, and think you have got to entertain them the whole time, what can you expect? 'I rebuff swaddling children, because I want to see them go on and do well and be themselves, whatever that is. I feel like it is their life and all I do is prepare them. 'What we do on the farm, hopefully, is preparation for the big world. The lessons they get here will stand them in good stead.' By the time she came to deliver daughter Clemmie, now five, she had already decided she could handle the incredible task on her own. 'Our local maternity hospital is in Middlesbrough, which is 69 miles away, and on these roads, that takes a long time. So by baby number eight, I thought "sod it, I'll do it myself". 'I knew the baby was in the right position, so when I felt the familiar feelings I went downstairs and had the baby in front of the fire with my terrier as a birthing partner.' She added: 'Clive wasn't desperate to be at the birth, he was asleep upstairs. I went and woke him up with the baby.' In June 2022, Amanda and Clive revealed that they had made 'the difficult decision to separate' but added that they would 'continue to work on the farm and co-parent together'. News of their separation had left fans of the show dismayed, but according to friends of the Owens they had been living apart for months before the announcement. And rumours of marital troubles had been circling since late 2021, but they had always been denied by the couple. Then, it emerged in April 2023 that Amanda had a five-year affair with married businessman Robert Davies, 71, and was living apart from husband Clive. However, the duo have since returned to Ravenseat Farm in the Yorkshire Dales where they are bound by 'a joint mission' of successfully running the farm and bringing up their children, aged between nine and 23. Robert's wife Yasumi, 56, accused Amanda of living a 'TV lie' after she rumbled the affair, and said she had 'lost everything' after learning of Amanda's relationship with Robert who she was married to for 12 years. The fling between the pair began as she rose to fame on Our Yorkshire Farm and enlisted the web developer to work on her website. The affair came to light after Yasumi found a note from the Yorkshire Shepherdess in Robert's car and a box of Amanda's possessions hidden in her bedroom. Heartbreakingly, the contents showed the depth of feelings between the two and the note read: 'Life is too short & happiness is too rare. I love you.' Investment banker Yasumi, who hails from Tokyo recognised the handwriting from a signed copy of Owen's new book as Robert had been working with Amanda on her personal website. Yasumi said the businessman was 'really kind' until 2018 when she noticed a sudden change in his behaviour towards her after he started working with Amanda on her farming website. After finding the note, Yasumi set about looking for more clues and she told The Sun that she then discovered some of Owen's jewellery hidden in a box in their bedroom, including a necklace she had worn on TV which read: 'Together forever.' However, in September last year Amanda revealed that their relationship has ended and they were no longer on speaking terms. In an interview with MailOnline at the time, the Shepherdess set the record straight and insisted: 'I never set out looking for another relationship. Rob [Davies] was a friend that Clive and I had both known for a long time. 'He put together the farm website and the digital aspect of the business, everything that we couldn't do. 'What he offered was conversation rather than confrontation, and Clive knew about it from the very beginning – he actually suggested Rob and I would be a good match. 'At that point, a few years ago now, Clive was also seeing someone else and was openly dating. It wasn't a secret, everyone roundabout knew, even the children.' Meanwhile, Clive admitted: 'I'd like people to know that what caused the split between us wasn't anyone else – it was the constant fighting. My anger drove Amanda away. 'Looking back on it I can see now that Amanda needed someone to talk to, someone she could trust, and at that stage I wasn't that person. 'Rob had always been a good friend to us, and we'd known him a long time. They got together at a point when we had already separated so I wasn't shocked or horrified, and it was never an affair in my mind because I knew about it from the beginning.' He added: 'I resented her success, including the fact she got paid more for talking about sheep than I ever could farming sheep. 'I was jealous, and I was difficult to deal with. It's not easy to talk about and I'm not proud of my behaviour back then. I was awful to Amanda and, looking back, I think that my own depression had a part to play. 'I was angry and drinking a lot of whisky. It was my way to cope, but it led to arguments, and as my behaviour got worse, it was too much for Amanda to bear.' Now single and paving her own path, the Yorkshire shepherdess is ploughing on and making it work. Earlier this month, she even revealed she had tried a different role alongside two of her children - Amanda, with son Miles and daughter Edith, were judges at Harrogate Dog Show. And of course despite a difficult few years, Amanda teamed up with Clive once again for the new season of their show. However, the couple's brood of children are slowly moving on as they head to university and into the next chapter of their lives. Amanda and Clive's eldest, Raven, graduated from York St. John University in November 2022 after completing a course in Biomedical Science. She is now currently working as an Assistant Scientist at DEFRA. Speaking to The Sunday Times in November, Amanda looked to the future for herself and Clive as she explained: 'We're just getting on with it. We bicker. We argue. There's no romance. But we're all right with each other. And that's a blessing.' Reflecting on their shared priorities, she added: 'We're here and we've got a joint mission. It's about securing the future of the farm, the children.' Yet, fans who were hoping Amanda and Clive, who met when Amanda was just 21, might reconcile, will almost certainly be disappointed.
