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Daily Record
34 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Jeremy Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan's life off-screen including family feud
Harriet Cowan has taken on a new role in the fourth season of Amazon Prime Video's Clarkson's Farm, where she was lauded as a lifesaver by presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Newcomer Harriet Cowan, 24, has bid farewell to Diddly Squat farm where she stepped in as a pinch-hitter for Jeremy Clarkson during the fourth series of the show, adding a touch of glamour to the rural setting. The TikTok sensation was drafted as temporary cover for manager Kaleb Cooper, 26, while he embarked on a nationwide tour with his solo production. Upon his return to the Chipping Norton farmland, Harriet resumed her everyday life. In a sweet parting exchange with the ex-Top Gear host, she expressed her thrill having been an indispensable asset to the team. "You saved my life. So, if we get stuck again, can we give you a call?" Clarkson queried the qualified nurse. Yet at this juncture, sources intimate with the programme have indicated there are "no plans" for Harriet's return in the current or any forthcoming seasons of Clarkson's Farm. Harriet may have taken her leave from the screen, but the online influencer swiftly endeared herself to viewers and commands a hefty following - with 448,700 disciples on TikTok and 159,000 on Instagram - spurring calls for her reappearance on the show, reports the Mirror. Hailing from a lineage of farmers, Harriet was reared on her grandfather's livestock farm, now managed by her father. Her digital presence predominantly showcases the pastoral lifestyle along with frequent appearances by her irresistibly charming brown collie named Sky. Let's delve into Harriet's activities away from the limelight, including girls' holidays and nights out. Girls' holiday and nights out Following her stint on Clarkson's Farm, Harriet embarked on a well-deserved getaway with friends to sunny Spain. Trading in her wellies for a trendy bucket hat and blue bikini, she unwound by the pool and shared a few glimpses into her vacation on social media. Harriet was spotted getting glammed up for a night out with the girls and even shared a photo of herself inflating a pink lido for a relaxing poolside lounge session. She also reportedly tried on some accessories at a local store, enjoying some retail therapy. While Harriet dedicates a significant amount of time to her work on the farm and nursing, as well as advocating for farmers' mental health, she also enjoys letting loose and having fun. Her social media is filled with snaps of glamorous nights out with friends and her partner, James Booth. Boyfriend James Harriet's boyfriend, James, is reportedly a third-generation farmer, and the couple has been together for "some time," according to one of her step-sisters. The Clarkson's Farm star frequently shares adorable photos and videos with her partner, whom she appears to have met at the Young Farmers Club (YFC). In one heartfelt video post, she wrote: "The 'butterfly effect' is crazy because if I didn't join young farmers we'd of never of met." Harriet and her boyfriend share much in common with their agricultural heritage. She playfully wrote in a post last year: "Your bf brings you presents to unwrap ... Mine brings me bales to unwrap. We're not the same." In another amusing TikTok about lambing season, Harriet, seen cuddling an adorable lamb, quipped: "I've been covered head to toe in bodily fluids. But at the end of it all I expect my bf to take the bins out cause it's gross". Nursing career Beyond farming, Harriet maintains a demanding career in nursing. A 2023 graduate from the University of Derby, she's now a fully qualified nurse working for the NHS with a hectic timetable. Harriet also touched on the monetary challenges of farming in a humorous TikTok, pondering whether she could leave her job to farm full-time, but then remembering her mortgage obligations. She wittily captioned her video, "Suppose I would miss nursing a bit too". Family feud Family drama seems to be part of Harriet's life as well; her stepsister has spoken out since Harriet gained popularity on Clarkson's Farm. Elina Clifford, a professional chiropodist, has openly shared her thoughts regarding her distant stepsister Harriet with quite a candid approach. In a candid chat with the Daily Mail, Elina labelled her step-sibling as "fake" and "self-absorbed", stressing "She loves to be the centre of attention, often at others' expense". Moreover, Elina didn't mince her words when issuing a stark caution to Clarkson's Farm, stating: "She is fake in the way she behaves, so Jeremy Clarkson, beware!" The Express has also reported that Elina and her older sister Maddie – a dedicated teacher – attribute the beginnings of the "family feud" to Harriet's purported misconduct towards their mother Vicky, currently in a relationship with Harriet's father Eddy. The discord within the family, the sisters allege, stems from Harriet's alleged coldness towards their mother, leading to significant strife. "We don't have a good relationship with her. Our mum is with her dad now, and there was a lot of drama a couple of years ago. There is a family feud, and Harriet was not being very nice to mum, and it was very upsetting," Maddie disclosed. The sisters went on to suggest that Harriet's participation in Clarkson's Farm was merely a ploy to bolster her already sizable social media presence, critiquing this move as "sad and desperate" while accusing the television personality of being "obsessed with herself". Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!
Sydney Morning Herald
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The book that changed me: Hannah Kent, Sarah Wilson, Hilde Hinton and more
Holly Wainwright 'I read Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh when I was eight years old. It changed my life. It's about a nosy little girl who lives in New York City – a place I had never been; I grew up in Manchester, England. She lived in an apartment with a doorman and had a nanny. Her parents went to glamorous events, but what I related to was that she was a writer and obsessed with nosing about in other people's lives. I read it 10 times. Harriet spies on her neighbours, writes about them in her notebook and observes her friends. They find out and are furious about it. It speaks about friend groups; one of the lessons it taught me was the difference between what you should say out loud and what you shouldn't. I was a magazine journalist for years and then an online one. In those early years of online writing, you were rewarded for being raw and brutal, but it also made me think about Harriet. The book made me realise I wasn't the only kid who kept notebooks; I remember writing in my own journal, and the way I pictured the world was the way I write about it. Harriet's nanny encouraged her to be adventurous, and I wanted that for myself, too.' Holly Wainwright is the author of He Would Never (Pan Macmillan Australia). Sarah Wilson 'Viktor Frankl had been a prisoner in Auschwitz and afterwards wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. I found it at a bus station in Malaga, Spain, before I went on a hike in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was hiking with a library bag, cucumber, orange, water and this book. I would sit under a tree each day in the 40-degree heat to read it. The book had a profound effect on me in my late 30s. It instilled in me a sense that life is meant to be hard, and that's when we rise to become our best selves. Frankl was a psychologist who spent four years in the camps, where he observed which characteristics enabled some men to survive while others died. He watched the big, tough men perish; those who survived had a deeper purpose, something bigger than themselves – it was generally God or family. I have been on a spiritual search for years and have endured tough times, and that notion of living for something bigger than yourself really struck me. The pendulum has swung to individualism and selfishness again; people are made to believe it's what we need to survive.' Sarah Wilson is the author of This One Wild and Precious Life (Harper Collins). Hilde Hinton 'The Deptford Trilogy by Canadian author Robertson Davies is a very obscure series I discovered as a 22-year-old with a new baby. I was a wayward youth, going from one dead-end job to another. I arrived in Perth from Melbourne with a suitcase, found a place to live and walked past a second-hand bookshop. The bookseller literally threw one of Davies' books at me. I threw it back. Then he threw it again. I thought bugger it, I'll keep it. The book shaped the rest of my life because after I read it, I told my dad we should start a second-hand bookshop. I did that for 20 years. I'd read six books a week then – that background inspired me to write. I was 50 when my first book came out; it was autobiographical. I am now on book four and still have imposter syndrome. There were periods when I felt isolated in Perth. I was regrouping, resetting and didn't have many friends there. Dad's way of bringing us up was very character building. It gave us the ability to think you can do anything. He told me to move away [from Melbourne] because my life wasn't going anywhere. It was a healing year for me, too. I never dealt with Mum's death [she died by suicide when Hinton was 12], and it was a good idea to reset. I came back to Melbourne with the love of the world and some direction again.' Hilde Hinton is the author of The Opposite of Lonely (Hachette Australia). Geraldine Brooks 'I discovered Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard when I was in my early 20s. It's a beautiful meditation by a woman who was in her early 20s and goes off to live in a rural place in the hills of Virginia, USA. She notices things for a year – the animals, the seasons, the way the light hits the mountains, and writes about it with grace and meaning. It's a book someone gave to my mother, and I was visiting her once and took it off the shelf. At the time I was working as a young journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald and had the chance to write about environmental issues. I would write about wilderness campaigners, go bushwalking, and do more demanding trips to write about proposed developments. I got to go camping in the snow and went rafting on Tasmania's Franklin River. The book gave me a sense of being out in nature and taught me what that means to humans. The book helped me to notice things on a deeper level. I am not a religious person, but there is something 'religious adjacent' that comes with being in nature.' Geraldine Brooks is the author of Memorial Days (Hachette Australia). Victoria Elizabeth Schwab ' Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein infected my mind with rhythm and cadence. I am someone who started writing poetry before I wrote my first novel many years later. I wanted to see if I could infect prose with poetic metre and use that as a way to make my voice stand out on the page. I am an only child and my parents read me poems every night before bed. Shel Silverstein was the first voice in my head. The combination of dark material conveyed with a childlike metre intrigued me. By the time I was nine, I would think in metre and rhyming couplets. I would have to smooth out my writing so it sounded normal to everyone else. To this day, when I am writing, I am very aware of the rise and fall of a sentence and syllabic rhythm of a sentence. Each one of my novels has a central sentence that exists for me, and me alone. For my upcoming work, there is a poem at the beginning. The sentence is, 'Bury my bones in the midnight soil.' Growing up with poetry, I always think about the musicality of a sentence, and I owe that to Shel. His work also had a profound depth; it wasn't just playful, it was also dark. The sinister appeal has shown up in all my books. I read all his poetry collections until they almost turned to dust.'
The Age
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The book that changed me: Hannah Kent, Sarah Wilson, Hilde Hinton and more
Holly Wainwright 'I read Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh when I was eight years old. It changed my life. It's about a nosy little girl who lives in New York City – a place I had never been; I grew up in Manchester, England. She lived in an apartment with a doorman and had a nanny. Her parents went to glamorous events, but what I related to was that she was a writer and obsessed with nosing about in other people's lives. I read it 10 times. Harriet spies on her neighbours, writes about them in her notebook and observes her friends. They find out and are furious about it. It speaks about friend groups; one of the lessons it taught me was the difference between what you should say out loud and what you shouldn't. I was a magazine journalist for years and then an online one. In those early years of online writing, you were rewarded for being raw and brutal, but it also made me think about Harriet. The book made me realise I wasn't the only kid who kept notebooks; I remember writing in my own journal, and the way I pictured the world was the way I write about it. Harriet's nanny encouraged her to be adventurous, and I wanted that for myself, too.' Holly Wainwright is the author of He Would Never (Pan Macmillan Australia). Sarah Wilson 'Viktor Frankl had been a prisoner in Auschwitz and afterwards wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. I found it at a bus station in Malaga, Spain, before I went on a hike in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was hiking with a library bag, cucumber, orange, water and this book. I would sit under a tree each day in the 40-degree heat to read it. The book had a profound effect on me in my late 30s. It instilled in me a sense that life is meant to be hard, and that's when we rise to become our best selves. Frankl was a psychologist who spent four years in the camps, where he observed which characteristics enabled some men to survive while others died. He watched the big, tough men perish; those who survived had a deeper purpose, something bigger than themselves – it was generally God or family. I have been on a spiritual search for years and have endured tough times, and that notion of living for something bigger than yourself really struck me. The pendulum has swung to individualism and selfishness again; people are made to believe it's what we need to survive.' Sarah Wilson is the author of This One Wild and Precious Life (Harper Collins). Hilde Hinton 'The Deptford Trilogy by Canadian author Robertson Davies is a very obscure series I discovered as a 22-year-old with a new baby. I was a wayward youth, going from one dead-end job to another. I arrived in Perth from Melbourne with a suitcase, found a place to live and walked past a second-hand bookshop. The bookseller literally threw one of Davies' books at me. I threw it back. Then he threw it again. I thought bugger it, I'll keep it. The book shaped the rest of my life because after I read it, I told my dad we should start a second-hand bookshop. I did that for 20 years. I'd read six books a week then – that background inspired me to write. I was 50 when my first book came out; it was autobiographical. I am now on book four and still have imposter syndrome. There were periods when I felt isolated in Perth. I was regrouping, resetting and didn't have many friends there. Dad's way of bringing us up was very character building. It gave us the ability to think you can do anything. He told me to move away [from Melbourne] because my life wasn't going anywhere. It was a healing year for me, too. I never dealt with Mum's death [she died by suicide when Hinton was 12], and it was a good idea to reset. I came back to Melbourne with the love of the world and some direction again.' Hilde Hinton is the author of The Opposite of Lonely (Hachette Australia). Geraldine Brooks 'I discovered Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard when I was in my early 20s. It's a beautiful meditation by a woman who was in her early 20s and goes off to live in a rural place in the hills of Virginia, USA. She notices things for a year – the animals, the seasons, the way the light hits the mountains, and writes about it with grace and meaning. It's a book someone gave to my mother, and I was visiting her once and took it off the shelf. At the time I was working as a young journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald and had the chance to write about environmental issues. I would write about wilderness campaigners, go bushwalking, and do more demanding trips to write about proposed developments. I got to go camping in the snow and went rafting on Tasmania's Franklin River. The book gave me a sense of being out in nature and taught me what that means to humans. The book helped me to notice things on a deeper level. I am not a religious person, but there is something 'religious adjacent' that comes with being in nature.' Geraldine Brooks is the author of Memorial Days (Hachette Australia). Victoria Elizabeth Schwab ' Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein infected my mind with rhythm and cadence. I am someone who started writing poetry before I wrote my first novel many years later. I wanted to see if I could infect prose with poetic metre and use that as a way to make my voice stand out on the page. I am an only child and my parents read me poems every night before bed. Shel Silverstein was the first voice in my head. The combination of dark material conveyed with a childlike metre intrigued me. By the time I was nine, I would think in metre and rhyming couplets. I would have to smooth out my writing so it sounded normal to everyone else. To this day, when I am writing, I am very aware of the rise and fall of a sentence and syllabic rhythm of a sentence. Each one of my novels has a central sentence that exists for me, and me alone. For my upcoming work, there is a poem at the beginning. The sentence is, 'Bury my bones in the midnight soil.' Growing up with poetry, I always think about the musicality of a sentence, and I owe that to Shel. His work also had a profound depth; it wasn't just playful, it was also dark. The sinister appeal has shown up in all my books. I read all his poetry collections until they almost turned to dust.'
Daily Mirror
19 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
'I've used this Shark Mop for 6 months - my floors have never look cleaner'
'My floors have never looked more sparkling' - The Shark Steam Mop Tech Commerce Editor Harriet uses at home is now on sale Gone are the days of a mop and bucket, steaming hot appliances have swiftly become the go-to in many households to get the floors gleaming while banishing germs at the same time. Often dubbed a 'must-have' brand, Dyson has its washG1, an all-in-one vacuum and mop which sucks up dirt and mops floors but at £499 the price is certainly eyewatering - I use one of Shark's rival products and not only does it cut cleaning times it's £400 cheaper. The Shark Kick n' Flip Automatic Steam Mop uses hot steam instead of the traditional bucket of soapy water, and because of the heat there's no need for chemical-infused cleaning products. Usually £139.99 it's now on sale for £99 - hundreds cheaper than Dyson's much pricier alternative. Unlike Dyson's model this doesn't have a vacuum, so that's a huge feature it's missing, but when it comes to mopping this nimble device has been game-changing. I swapped to the Shark Kick n' Flip at the beginning of the year, my floors are less grubby, the bathroom tiles come up shiny, and it can cover my whole flat in about 10 minutes. It's simple to use, all I do is fill up the container with water and choose the steam setting - I personally always go for 'hi'. There's the choice of three options; low, medium, and 'hi.' These can be used on a variety of different floors like the wooden laminate in my living room kitchen and tiles in my bathrooms. Looking at the size of the Shark pads, they also seem more nimble than other options. For example, this cheaper Steam Fresh Combi from Vax (now £79.99) has a bigger triangle-like mop head which may be slightly bigger but looks trickier to get under furniture. Shark Kick n' Flip Product Description If there's a particular mark or spot then the steam blast technology is great for this - in homage to its 'kick n' flip' name all I do is flop over the mop head with my foot and press down on the handle, which blasts out concentrated, high power amount of steam to help get rid of stubborn stains. Once done with cleaning, the dirt pad (or mop head) can be released with a click of a button, which releases it from the mop. It goes face down, meaning I don't have to touch any of the grime, just chuck it straight into the washing machine on a warm wash. The only thing that I've found is it's worth buying more of the detachable mop heads than what comes free with purchase (two) as this is good for switching up between the kitchen and bathrooms. I've used the Shark Steam Mop for nearly six months and not run into any major problems. It's still working as well as the first time I unboxed it, which is why I decided to flag a product I've bought with my own money, instead of it being something I've been sent to review. I'd recommend it to anyone in need of an affordable cleaning upgrade. Shoppers online have also shared their delight with it, and especially like the unique steam sprayer. As one person said: "Brilliant love this so easy to use. Does a great job of cleaning my floors, love the option to trigger more steam which is simple to do . "Only four-stars as the cord is not long enough and water tank could do with been a little bigger so less refills however wouldn't put me off getting another one." Another shopper said: "This is our third purchase of this steam mop because it really is the best we have found of its kind. it does not remain upright unless propped or held up. It is really easy to knock or pull over when switching plug sockets which may damage it." Like the above shopper, I've also come into the same issue with it not being able to stand on its own, but I personally don't mind this. Instead of propping it up I make sure to lay it flat, and no water has ever leaked out of it when doing this.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Clarkson's Farm star's life off-screen from long-term boyfriend to family feud
Glamorous farmhand Harriet Cowan has said goodbye to Jeremy Clarkson and the Diddly Squat farm after stepping in to provide much-needed cover - but she quickly became a fan favourite New farmhand Harriet Cowan, 24, has said her goodbyes to the Diddly Squat farm after stepping in to provide some help to Jeremy Clarkson in series four - and a little dash of glamour. The TikTok star was brought in as cover for manager Kaleb Cooper, 26, whilst he went on tour with his one-man show across the country, but on his return to the Chipping Norton farm, Harriet returned to her normal day-to-day life. In the sweet moment, she said goodbye to Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear presenter, and said she had been a lifesaver. "You saved my life. So, if we get stuck again, can we give you a call?" He asked the trained nurse. However, as it stands, there are "no plans" that she will appear again in this series of Clarkson's Farm, or any potential future ones - sources close to the show have previously revealed. Whilst Harriet has left the show for now, the social media star quickly became a fan favourite - and boasts over 448,700 followers on her TikTok account and 159,000 on Instagram - with many calling for her to be brought back to the show. Harriet comes from a farming family and grew up on her grandad's livestock farm, which her dad has now taken over. Most of the content centres around life in agriculture and her unbelievably sweet brown collie dog, Sky. The Mirror takes a look at just what Harriet gets up to off-screen. Girls' holiday and nights out Since finishing her time on Clarkson's Farm, Harriet has jetted off with her friends to Spain to enjoy a break in the sunshine. She ditched the wellies, grabbed a bucket hat and a blue bikini, and spent some much-needed time away from the farm relaxing poolside - and shared a few snaps from her time away. Harriet was seen getting dolled up for a night out with the girls and shared a picture of her hard at work blowing up a pink lido so they could lounge in the pool. She's also reported to have tried on a few accessories at a local store. Whilst Harriet spends a lot of her time hard at work on the farm and nursing - as well as reportedly working as an advocate for the mental health of farmers - she also likes to let her hair down, and often posts snaps on her socials of glamorous nights out with her pals and partner James Booth. Boyfriend James Harriet has been with her boyfriend James - who is also reported to be a third-generation farmer - for "some time," according to one of her step sisters. The Clarkson's Farm star regularly posts pictures and sweet videos with her partner, who she seems to have met at the Young Farmers Club (YFC), writing over one video post of the couple: "The 'butterfly effect' is crazy because if I didn't join young farmers we'd of never of met." The pair obviously have a lot in common with their farming backgrounds, with Harriet writing in one joking post last year: "Your bf brings you presents to unwrap ... Mine brings me bales to unwrap. We're not the same." She joked in another post about lambing season, which saw her holding a seriously cute lamb "I've been covered head to toe in bodily fluids. But at the end of it all I expect my bf to take the bins out cause it's gross". Nursing career Whilst Harriet seems to be pretty busy helping out with the cows and sheep on the farm - she also has a full-time job as a nurse. She graduated from the University of Derby in 2023 and is now fully qualified, working for the NHS, so needless to say she has a pretty packed schedule. In one post she joked about her packed calendar and the financial difficulties that can come with farming, writing over one video on her TikTok: "Thinking I could quit my job and farm full time... but then I remember I have a mortgage to pay." She captioned the lighthearted post, "Suppose I would miss nursing a bit too". Family feud Unfortunately, Harriet seems to be embroiled in some family tensions - with her stepsister speaking out about her publicly since her rise to fame on Clarkson's Farm. Elina Clifford, a professional chiropodist, opened up about her feelings on her estranged step-sister Harriet, and she certainly didn't hold back when it came to diving into the subject. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Elina dubbed her step-sister "fake" and "self-absorbed", adding, "She loves to be the centre of attention, often at others' expense". She also issued a blunt warning to Clarkson's Farm: "She is fake in the way she behaves, so Jeremy Clarkson, beware!". According to The Express, Elina and her elder sister Maddie - a teacher - blame the origins of the "family feud" on Harriet's behaviour towards their mother Vicky, who is in a relationship with Harriet's dad Eddy. The sisters claim that Harriet isn't nice to their mother, which has caused serious tension. "We don't have a good relationship with her. Our mum is with her dad now, and there was a lot of drama a couple of years ago. There is a family feud, and Harriet was not being very nice to mum, and it was very upsetting," said Maddie. The siblings went as far as to say that Harriet was only taking part in Clarkson's Farm in an attempt to grow her already massive social media following - calling it "sad and desperate" and claiming the TV star is "obsessed with herself".
