Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen and husband Clive seen for first time since saying their break up

Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen has been seen for the primary time with husband Clive since saying their break up as they proceed to run their farm side-by-side regardless of ‘dwelling aside for months’.

The couple, who’ve been married for 22 years, have been seen deep in dialog exterior the cafe at their farm within the Yorkshire Dales earlier in the present day.

Pictures present mother-of-nine Amanda sat on a quadbike holding a jerrycan whereas chatting with her estranged husband on their 2,000-acre Ravenseat Farm.

It comes after they revealed yesterday that they’d made ‘the troublesome choice to separate’ however added that they’d ‘proceed to work on the farm and co-parent collectively’.

Amanda and Clive shot to fame on their actuality TV present Our Yorkshire Farm, which showcases their life collectively in one of many remotest elements of England.

Information of their separation had left followers of the present dismayed, however in line with buddies of the Owens they’d been dwelling aside for months earlier than the announcement.

Rumours of marital troubles have been circling since late 2021, however they’ve been denied by the couple. 

Amanda was pictured sporting her wedding ceremony ring on an evening out in November of final 12 months, showing to dispute hypothesis she and her husband had already been dwelling aside for a while. 

A supply near Clive and Amanda mentioned: ‘It is actually unhappy for each of them that it is come to this, particularly with such a big household and a few of them so younger.

‘It has been an open secret throughout the dale for a very long time that they’ve been having issues and have been dwelling aside.

‘Amanda has been dwelling of their vacation let, a cottage slightly below a mile away from Ravenseat and Clive has been staying on the farm the place he is at all times been.’

However the couple’s relationship will not be over simply due to their break up – due to their advanced home and enterprise circumstances, they revealed.

‘The issue they will have is that this would possibly not be a divorce within the regular sense of the phrase the place two individuals can go their separate methods,’ the supply defined.

 ‘They’ve 9 youngsters, the youngest is barely round 4 and 5 of them are below the age of 10, nonetheless at main college.

‘However you need to add in to that the very fact they’re working a giant hill farm with a flock of sheep scattered all around the dale.

‘It is exhausting work and what they do on TV is not only for present, they’re each working day in, time out to make their enterprise work.

‘Which means Amanda is at Ravenseat day-after-day, so the query persons are asking is ‘how will they each transfer on with their lives from right here?’

‘It is exhausting to think about how both of them might start a brand new relationship with the ex husband or spouse being a part of their day-after-day lives. It is a very troublesome scenario.

‘Clive is a really nicely preferred and revered man on this a part of the world, he is lived right here all his life and Amanda has grow to be a part of Dales life as nicely.

‘Their buddies and neighbours are unhappy for the entire household.’

The couple met on the farm in 1996 when Amanda took up a task as a trainee shepherdess. She had already been married as soon as and had two youngsters. 

She grew up in a standard three-bed home along with her dad and mom and one sibling within the giant market city of Huddersfield.

At 6ft 2in, the blonde was inspired to comply with the identical profession path as her mannequin mom, however she hated the garments and make-up that she needed to put on.

She left her snug city life to work on farms across the nation, however it’s when she knocked on the door of Ravenseat Farm that she discovered her calling.

The couple’s assertion yesterday continued: ‘This hasn’t been straightforward, however we each imagine it is the suitable alternative for the way forward for our household.

‘Though we’re now not a pair, we proceed to work on the farm and co-parent along with our primary precedence the happiness and well-being of our kids.’

The couple added that they wish to thank everybody for his or her help and requested for privateness as they ‘work by means of this troublesome time’.

The couple, generally known as the ‘Kardashians of the Countryside’, had in the previous couple of months been mentioned to be ‘battling to save lots of their marriage’ after greater than 20 years.

However they’ve continued to current a united entrance as a contented household till the announcement on social media yesterday.

Amanda often shares candid pictures of her and her youngsters on-line on the farm, in addition to household photographs of her and her husband flanked by their 9 youngsters. 

She did not even inform her personal mom that she was having marital points, as a substitute leaving Joyce Livingstone at nighttime.

Ms Livingstone beforehand mentioned the wedding was ‘rock strong’ so far as she knew and he or she had not been contacted by anyone to say in any other case. 

She mentioned she was ‘gobsmacked’ when she first heard the couple have been going by means of a tough patch, having been married for 22 years.

Mr Owen, who earlier than assembly Amanda was married to a different lady for 13 years, was described as ‘determined’ to restore their relationship amid ‘fears’ their marriage would finish in divorce.

Mr and Mrs Owen turned adored tv stars by means of the Channel 5 present Our Yorkshire Farm from 2018 after first showing on ITV collection The Dales in 2011.

The programme follows them and their 9 youngsters across the 2,000-acre Ravenseat Farm as they battle the cruel components to sort out rural duties.

The Yorkshire Shepherdess has additionally launched a number of books about her life as a Yorkshire farmer because the actuality present first aired.

She and Owen have beforehand mentioned the present and books are designed to point out the ‘actuality’ of life on the farm – though it has additionally seen them shoot to fame. 

However the powerful way of life portrayed within the collection seems to have taken its toll, with the couple’s fall out changing into ‘the speak of the village’.

Nonetheless the Shepherdess doesn’t remorse participating within the programme: ‘We’re only a regular household coping with all the things life throws at us and the programme is life because it’s occurring, whether or not there’s somebody filming it or not and that is what retains all people grounded.’ 

It’s thought Mrs Owen has moved into their vacation residence The Firs, which is on the high of Higher Swaledale, in a valley and surrounded by 5 acres of meadows and pasture whereas Mr Owen has remained on the farmhouse, in line with villagers.

Amanda has beforehand hinted that she and her husband have had their justifiable share of troubles, as soon as revealing in an interview that romance is just not in both her or Clive’s ‘make-up’.

However she has at all times been eager to point out their relationship works: ‘All the things we do is interchangeable. 

‘Clive will serve afternoon tea and alter nappies, I am going to shear sheep and shovel s**t. It would not matter who does what, we’re all on the identical facet.’

She additionally instructed Lorraine in December of final 12 months that the fixed media consideration means she has needed to study to journey out the powerful occasions.

She mentioned: ‘You need to take the tough with the sleek.

‘We have been speaking about the way you climate a storm, we’re fairly resilient within the hills, that is all we bought to go. 

‘For those who’re happy with what you are doing, you need to shoulder it, that is precisely what we do, get on with it, ignore it.’

In addition to marital points, Amanda’s parenting fashion has additionally triggered issues, leading to a short brush with social providers. 

She revealed the encounter at Hay Pageant of Literature & Arts, including she doesn’t see herself as a ‘excellent mother or father.’

‘I bought a yellow flag from social providers… I imagine there’s a completely happy medium whereby you do let the children climb timber.

‘Sure, they have not bought harnesses on or exhausting hats, however I imagine there are some classes to be realized that do not essentially lead to instantaneous demise however truly study your personal parameters.’

Our Yorkshire Farm got here below hearth in 2018 for scenes that appeared to breach well being and security.

The employees’ union Unite raised issues over an episode which noticed youngsters driving quad bikes with out helmets, using in tractor cabs and on trailers with out guardrails, and climbing and taking part in on hay bales.

Amanda is believed to have moved into the six-bedroom cottage vacation cottage owned by the household, which is accessed by a non-public street behind three gates and dates again to at the least the seventeenth century.

It has a lot of unique options, together with stone flagged flooring, beamed ceilings, whitewashed partitions and a standard black Yorkshire vary.

The couple hire Ravenseat Farm and its land from billionaire Robert Miller, who’s the co-founder of DFS (Obligation Free Retailers) and is the daddy of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg, and Pia Getty – the ‘it’ ladies of the Nineties.

The six-bedroom cottage is accessed by a non-public street behind three gates and dates again to at the least the seventeenth century.

It has a lot of unique options, together with stone flagged flooring, beamed ceilings, whitewashed partitions and a standard black Yorkshire vary.

Did actuality TV fame price the Yorkshire Shepherdess her marriage? How ex-model Amanda Owen bought ‘caught up’ within the glamour of her personal present, books and Instagram persona – whereas Clive most popular to remain out of the highlight 

By Harriet Johnston for MailOnline

Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen was ‘caught up within the highlight’ as she rose to fame showing on actuality TV and publishing a lot of bestselling books for years earlier than she and her husband Clive break up up.

The mother-of-nine, 47, made her first TV look alongside her husband, 66, in 2011 on ITV’s The Dales, earlier than they landed their very own Channel 5 present Our Yorkshire Farm in 2018.

Within the years since she first graced the nation’s screens, she has printed 5 bestselling books, appeared on a number of podcasts and farming exhibits, and grow to be a daily visitor star on morning TV, the place she discusses all the things from life on the farm, to parenting and marriage.

Nonetheless final autumn it appeared there was hassle in paradise for Amanda and her husband Clive – neighbours mentioned they’d been ‘dwelling aside for months’ as a result of she was ‘caught up within the highlight.’

And yesterday Amanda, who is believed to have amassed £1million from her media persona, issued a joint assertion with Clive on social media which mentioned the couple have made ‘the troublesome choice to separate’.

The assertion continued: ‘This hasn’t been straightforward, however we each imagine it is the suitable alternative for the way forward for our household.

‘Though we’re now not a pair, we proceed to work on the farm and co-parent along with our primary precedence the happiness and well-being of our kids.’

The couple added that they wish to thank everybody for his or her help and requested for privateness as they ‘work by means of this troublesome time’.

Amanda grew up in a standard three-bed home along with her dad and mom and one sibling within the giant market city of Huddersfield.

At 6ft 2in, the blonde was inspired to comply with the identical profession path as her mannequin mom, however she claimed she hated the garments and make-up that she needed to put on.

She left her snug city life to work on farms across the nation. She met her husband in 1996 when he was already divorced with two youngsters, after she arrived at his farm as a 21-year-old trainee shepherdess.

Simply earlier than Amanda met her husband, his life had been turbulent following the break up from his spouse of 13 years Greta Watson, with whom he has two grown up youngsters.

Showing on The Dales in 2011 alongside 5 of their youngsters, Clive described how the farm was ‘powerful’, earlier than explaining how the couple met for the primary time.

He mentioned: ‘A pal of mine wished to borrow a ram, and I mentioned sure he might borrow one. Amanda got here to choose it up. And I assumed, “Wow.”

‘I ultimately persuaded her to provide me her phone quantity and off we went from there.’

He recalled: ‘I do keep in mind this six-foot-something lady knocked on the door. I used to be very taken along with her. You could not not be.’

She added: ‘It was a gradual burn factor we form of bought to know one another. Made buddies first then went out a bit bit collectively.’

In the meantime Amanda mentioned he was ‘excellent husband materials’, saying: ‘My form of fella, like the identical sense of humour and kind of issues. It was simply destiny.’

It did not take lengthy for the couple get hitched, with 5 youngsters rapidly following.

A lot of her youngsters assist out on the farm when they aren’t at college – or travelling to and from because the journey takes one-and-a-half hours every method.

‘So as to make a giant household work all of them have to tow the road. It is not about baby labour – it is about pulling collectively,’ Amanda instructed the Day by day Mail in an article in 2018.

With the closest store so far-off – and the chance throughout winter that they might be snowed in for weeks – the TV star buys meals in bulk, and manages to feed her giant household for simply £130 every week.

The couple first appeared on TV as regulars on Adrian Edmondson’s 2011 ITV documentary collection The Dales alongside the Reverend Ann Chapman, the vicar of 4 small church buildings, and a lot of different individuals dwelling within the Yorkshire Dales.

At that time, the Owen household consisted of Amanda, Clive and their 5 younger youngsters.

Nonetheless the general public have been fast to fall for the couple and their uncommon love story, dubbing them the ‘Kardashians of the Countryside’.

They started making additional media appearances and providing interviews to media about their household, with Amanda often opening up about life as a mother-of-nine.

In November 2015, the household appeared in an episode of New Lives In The Wild UK with Ben Fogle, a Channel 5 programme which is made by Warner Brothers’ Renegade Photos.

By this stage, Amanda was choosing up her personal media appearances, in addition to releasing her first e book The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

It reached the bestseller high 10 in 2014 and, when the movie rights have been bought, there was numerous excited chat in Swaledale about attainable casting selections.

Nonetheless on the time, she mentioned: ‘Some individuals talked about Hollywood. ‘However I am completely happy simply getting on with my life. Ravenseat is the place I need to be. It is the place I belong.’

In 2017, she launched an additional tome A Yr within the Lifetime of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, showing on BBC Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity.

The recognition of the household led to their very own observational documentary collection following life on the Owens’ farm on Channel 5 referred to as Our Yorkshire Farm, which began in 2018.

It rapidly turned successful, and was one of many channel’s hottest programmes with over three million viewers watching every episode.

By 2019, Amanda was releasing a 3rd e book Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess and was the topic of Radio 4’s On Your Farm.

In the meantime she additionally appeared on the podcast Timber A Crowd with David Oakes.

In the meantime Our Yorkshire Farm turned an unlikely lockdown hit, proving to be the most-watched programme in a 9pm slot for 2 weeks in a row in August.

On the time, viewers mentioned the present was the perfect TV collection they’d seen in years, with many saying they could not watch for the subsequent collection.

The shepherdess started making solo appearances on a wide range of TV exhibits, changing into a daily visitor on programmes like Lorraine and This Morning to supply touch upon parenting and life on the farm.

In 16 February 2021, Channel 5 broadcast the primary episode of collection 14 of Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild, which noticed Fogle again at Ravenseat Farm after six years, the place he met their youngest baby Nancy (who was born since his final go to) for the primary time.

In the meantime Owen was featured as one of many 4 walkers travelling with the BBC’s 360 diploma digital camera, in collection two of BBC 4’s Winter Walks, with Owen’s episode that includes a stroll by means of Wensleydale and Raydale.

She additionally filmed a few studies for Reside: Winter on the Farm, broadcast on Channel 5 between 6–9 December 2021 and appeared because the featured visitor on Radio 4’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed with Simon Armitage.

In the meantime she launched two additional books Tales From the Farm and Celebrating The Seasons, each of which she hung out closely selling.

She started dealing with criticism from social media critics who urged her to ‘keep true to herself’.

Taking to Twitter, Amanda shared a number of snaps of herself engaged on the farm and at a e book signing and wrote: ‘Time for a catch up, it has been a brilliant busy time. Been sporting quite a lot of completely different hats metaphorically talking.’

In response, the critic penned: ‘Keep true to your self individuals fell in love along with your life as you all are, not as a showbiz star.’

Nonetheless, an unimpressed Amanda hit again: ‘Shearing Sheep driving tractor to make hay to feed Sheep, signing books (about Sheep), public talking (about Sheep).

‘Serving tea to folks who watch programme & learn (about Sheep).’

She additionally went on to defend her pal Jeremy Clarkson and continued: ‘As @JeremyClarkson has highlighted till meals manufacturing, countryside administration is valued we do what pays the payments.’

In the meantime she additionally opened up in an interview with the Sunday Instances Journal about her experiences of being well-known and mentioned that she had discovered it ‘invasive’.

She mentioned she struggled with individuals asking for her image when she was out and about.

She revealed tons of of individuals come every day to her farm and use the cafe there – including Our Yorkshire Farm is so fashionable as a result of the farm is actual.

She mentioned: ‘A whole bunch come previous every day. Typically it may be extra tiring smiling than shovelling s***. There’s a time after I’d wish to shut the door and say, ‘That is my life, that is my time.’ And that is bought fairly troublesome.’

She admitted Mr Owen and her capitalise on the guests coming to their farm with the intention to run the cafe they’ve opened on web site.

However she added she discovered it troublesome that she now has individuals to reply to, and that folks typically take her image or document her whereas she is engaged on her farm.

‘In fact it is invasive. Individuals know the place we reside and so they can arrive there — however that is the distinctive promoting level, that the farm is actual,’ she mentioned.

Mrs Owen, who wrote a number of books about life on the farm – the most recent one, on seasonal dwelling – mentioned it’s a ‘vicious circle,’ and he or she couldn’t cease writing about it as a result of the fabric is there.

She added her 9 youngsters, aged 20 to 5, haven’t been affected by fame and haven’t obtain any destructive remark.

She mentioned the present, books and the publicity surrounding a farm was all a strategy to finance her youngsters’s future. She added she had by no means employed childcare, as a result of it might have proved extra annoying for her than handy.

In the meantime she provided one other interview through which she mentioned ‘romance’ is just not in her and Clive’s ‘make-up.’

When requested if she and her husband are romantic, the shepherdess instructed OK! journal: ‘I do not suppose both of us are! I do not suppose it is in our make-up.’

The shepherdess went on to disclose what she believes to be the key to her 21-year marriage.

‘All the things we do is interchangeable,’ she mentioned. ‘Clive will serve afternoon tea and alter nappies, I am going to shear sheep and shovel s**t. It would not matter who does what, we’re all on the identical facet.’

Amanda praised Clive for being a ‘hands-on’ dad, including that ‘at sure occasions of 12 months, it is all palms on deck and all duties on the farm are interchangeable.

There is no one hat for anybody individual and I feel that is an awesome life lesson.’

Nonetheless by November, neighbours instructed MailOnline the pair had been dwelling aside for months after she ‘bought caught up within the highlight’ of her Channel 5 programme.

Amanda moved into their rental property down the street from Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, the place Mr Owen has been staying within the farmhouse, villagers mentioned.

The couple, generally known as the ‘Kardashians of the Countryside’, have been mentioned to be ‘battling to save lots of their marriage’ after greater than 21 years.

Mr Owen was understood to be ‘determined’ to restore their relationship and ‘fears’ their marriage will finish in divorce.

It was feared they’d lately began dwelling aside however their neighbours declare it was frequent information for months.

One, who requested to not be named, instructed MailOnline: ‘She moved out months in the past and ended up down the street in one other home.

‘It is no shock actually, when you could have blended households like that there is certain to be a falling out. She’s bought caught up in her profession within the highlight and bought caught up in all the eye we predict.

‘Each time I noticed her on the tv I assumed who’s taking care of all these children and animals, I am guessing it was Clive.

‘Some right here suppose their life is all fake for the digital camera. How can they plead poverty on the telly however go round within the garments they do. The children put on Joules wellies and also you simply do not get that on a poor farmer’s revenue.

‘Lots of people who know farming know she will be able to’t be out sorting the sheep with all of the bangles and garments she wears. It is all for present.’

They added: ‘They have been aside for months. Most individuals round right here know it has been just a few months however we do not actually know the main points as a result of we’re not .’

One other supply near the couple mentioned: ‘There have been rumours across the Dale that each one’s not been nearly as good because it might be, however solely Clive and Amanda know the actual story.

‘People suppose nicely of them, most individuals up right here have identified Clive for years and years, he is a well-liked and nicely revered man within the farming neighborhood and he has loads of good buddies.

‘In the event that they’re having issues they will not must look far for help if it is wanted.’

A household pal instructed the Solar: ‘It is extremely unhappy. Amanda and Clive are two vastly fashionable figures right here within the Dales, and nobody noticed this coming.

‘Clive loves Amanda to bits and adores her, and fears the wedding could also be failing despite the fact that he desperately would not need it to. He fears they may divorce.

‘He reckons the picture of them taking part in completely happy households is a load of garbage. He thinks this would be the final collection they movie collectively, and now it is about taking care of the children and placing them first.’

The insider mentioned Mr Owen wished his spouse to remain for Christmas however added the choice was ‘very a lot in Amanda’s palms’.

On the time, in a joint assertion given to MailOnline, Mr and Mrs Owen mentioned: ‘With the TV present and the books we have at all times aimed to point out the fact of life on the farm, and similar to any marriage we now have our stresses and strains, coupled with all of the complexities of what we do on the farm and mentioning 9 children.

‘We’re a standard household, and we have by no means mentioned our marriage is ideal.’

They added they have been going by means of a ‘rocky patch’ of their marriage.

In the meantime Amanda continued to provide media interviews saying that she ‘did not remorse’ inviting the general public into her life by means of Our Yorkshire Farm – regardless of studies her fame left her marriage on the rocks.

Chatting with the Yorkshire Submit, Amanda mentioned she would not remorse participating within the present, saying: ‘We’re only a regular household coping with all the things life throws at us and the programme is life because it’s occurring, whether or not there’s somebody filming it or not and that is what retains all people grounded.’

She continued: ‘It’s exhausting work being a farmer and I’ll do all the things it takes to supply for my household and which means having loads of fingers in loads of pies with the intention to make a dwelling – you might be damned in case you do and you might be damned in case you do not.’