Amanda Owen, the star of Yorkshire Farm, revealed that she is not a romantic type in an interview shortly after Clive confirmed that they are going though a ‘rocky time’.
Clive Owen (66), the husband of 47-year-old mother-of-9, released a joint statement last Thursday stating that “like any marriage, there are our stresses and strains” but adding that they always wanted to show the real life on the farm through their TV shows, book deals, and other media.
However, speaking in an interview before the revelation, Amanda spoke candidly on how ‘romance’ is not in her and Clive’s ‘make-up.’
The shepherdess answered OK! when asked if she and her husband were romantic. magazine: ‘I don’t think either of you are! It’s not in our makeup, I don’t believe.
Amanda Owen, 47, star of Our Yorkshire Farm, revealed that she and Clive, 66 were not romantic in an interview just before they confirmed that they are going through a “rocky patch”.
Amanda, 47, and her husband Clive Owen,67, live on Ravenseat Farm in Yorkshire. From left to right: Annas (7 years old), Violet (10 years), Edith (12 years), Raven (20 Years), Amanda (4 years), Clive (with Clemmie) (5, Reuben (17, Miles 14 and Sidney (8). Pictured: Amanda and her family are seen standing in front of The Fires.
The shepherdess then revealed the secret to her 21-year marriage.
She said, “Everything we do can be interchangeable.” ‘Clive will serve afternoon tea and change nappies, I’ll shear sheep and shovel s**t. It doesn’t matter who does what, we’re all on the same side.’
Amanda praised Clive for being a ‘hands-on’ dad, adding that ‘at certain times of year, it’s all hands on deck and all tasks on the farm are interchangeable.
There’s no one hat for any one person and I think that’s a great life lesson.’
Full house! The 46-year-old writer and her husband Clive (67) share Raven, 20, Miles, 17, Miles 15, Edith, 12, Violet and Sidney, respectively. Clementine is five years old, while Annas is seven years.
The mother-of-9 was also quizzed about a comment she made previously about never saying never to having another child.
Speaking on whether that’s still the case, she continued: ‘I don’t know! If anyone knows anything it’s honestly that I have not got a plan. I plan for today and maybe tomorrow and that’s where it stops.
We all need to give ourselves a break when it is time to parent. As long as the kids are happy, well-fed and washed… that will do.’
MailOnline was informed last week by the couple’s neighbors that they had been living apart for months since she ‘got caught in the spotlight’ on her Channel 5 program.
Clive and Amanda with Raven, 20, Miles, 15, Edith and Violet, 12, Sidney, 9, Annas, 7, Clementine, 5, and Nancy, four years old
Amanda moved into their rental property just down the road from Ravenseat Farm, Swaledale, where Clive had been staying, the villagers reported.
After more than 21 years, the couple, known as “Kardashians” in the Countryside, are reportedly ‘fighting to save their marriage’.
Clive, who was 13 years married to another woman, is said to be ‘desperate to repair their relationship’ and ‘fears their marriage will end with divorce’.
While it was thought they had just moved in together, their neighbors claim it was known months ago. Despite Yorkshire Shepherdess promoting her new book about family life, it is still a big deal.
Clive Owen and Amanda gave a joint statement to MailOnline.
“We are a normal couple, and we’ve never said that our marriage was perfect.
They also shared that they were going through some ‘rocky patches’ in their marriage.
Amanda is believed to have moved into their holiday home The Firs at the top of Upper Swaledale in a valley, surrounded by five acres meadows and pasture.
The cottage, which has six bedrooms, is accessible via a private road behind three gated entrances. It dates back at least to the seventeenth century.
It features a number original features such as stone flagged floors, beamed ceilings and whitewashed walls.
The couple rent Ravenseat Farm and its land from billionaire Robert Miller, who is the co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops) and is the father of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg, and Pia Getty – the ‘it’ girls of the 1990s.
Amanda 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.
Amanda grew-up in a traditional three bedroom house with her parents, and one sibling, in the large market town Huddersfield.
At 6ft 2in, the blonde was encouraged by her mother to follow the same career path, but she hated the clothes she had to wear and the make-up.
She moved from her small-town life to work on farms across the country. But Ravenseat Farm was where she found her calling.
In April, the sheepherder (pictured), blamed parents for today’s’snowflake generation’ of children who can’t look after their own needs.
Many of her children help on the farm when she is not at school.
“All family members must follow the same rules in order to make a big family successful,” Amanda said. Amanda explained to the Daily Mail that it is not about child labor – it is about pulling together in an article published in 2018.
With the nearest shop so far away – and the risk during winter that they could be snowed in for weeks – the TV star buys food in bulk, and manages to feed her large family for just £130 a week.
Their water comes from the stream on the Moor and is free. They heat the house with a roaring fire that burns no matter the weather.