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Meanwhile she also opened up in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine about her experiences of being famous and said that she had found it 'invasive'. Absolutely never. Put it this way, if I was the life and soul of the party, and really enjoyed the company of lots of people, I wouldn’t have chosen to be [a shepherd]. So it absolutely is a turnaround like you would not believe. Amanda moved into their rental property down the road from Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, where Mr Owen has been staying in the farmhouse, villagers said. They added: 'They've been apart for months. Most people around here know it's been a few months but we don't really know the details because we're not interested.' Amanda swapped her anoraks and wellington boots for a bodycon dress, false lashes and heels in 2019 when she walked the red carpet for her TV show

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However by November, neighbours told MailOnline the pair had been living apart for months after she 'got caught up in the spotlight' of her Channel 5 programme. At 6ft 2in, the blonde was encouraged to follow the same career path as her model mother, but she claimed she hated the clothes and make-up that she had to wear. The Radford family - another large family featured in a Channel 5 documentary ( 22 Kids and Counting) [45] Many of her children help out on the farm when they are not at school - or travelling to and from as the journey takes one-and-a-half hours each way.

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The couple first appeared on TV as regulars on Adrian Edmondson's 2011 ITV documentary series The Dales alongside the Reverend Ann Chapman, the vicar of four small churches, and a number of other people living in the Yorkshire Dales. In November 2021, Owen was one of the four walkers travelling with the BBC's 360 degree camera, [24] in series two of BBC Four's Winter Walks. [25] with Owen's episode featuring a walk through Wensleydale and Raydale. The insider said Mr Owen wanted his wife to stay for Christmas but added the decision was 'very much in Amanda's hands'. Speaking to the Yorkshire Post, Amanda said she doesn't regret taking part in the show, saying: 'We are just a normal family dealing with everything life throws at us and the programme is life as it's happening, whether there's someone filming it or not and that's what keeps everybody grounded.' It has a cosy living room in front of a roaring fire as well as a traditional farmhouse kitchen with a table for eight people.

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A source close to Clive and Amanda said: 'It's really sad for both of them that it's come to this, especially with such a large family and some of them so young. Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Ravenseat", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557 Unlike Baker's Dales series or her Channel 5 programme, she will visit other farms in Amanda Owen's Extraordinary Farming Lives, set to be a six-part series of 60 minute programmes. [37] Winter on the Farm' to be broadcast live on TV this week". Farminglife.com . Retrieved 11 December 2021. a b c d e Rollinson, William (1978). A History of Cumberland and Westmorland. Phillimore & Co Ltd. p.34. ISBN 0-85033-315-6.The popularity of the family led to their own observational documentary series following life on the Owens' farm on Channel 5 called Our Yorkshire Farm, which started in 2018. However last autumn it appeared there was trouble in paradise for Amanda and her husband Clive - neighbours said they had been 'living apart for months' because she was 'caught up in the spotlight.' Owen, Amanda (2016). A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Pan MacMillan. p.2. ISBN 978-1-4472-9526-6.