Amanda Owen has become one of the breakout stars of TV this year as viewers share their love for Channel 5 series, Our Yorkshire Farm.
Since 2018, cameras have followed the 46-year-old Yorkshire shepherdess and her family as they document the lives of Amanda, husband Clive, 66, and their nine children.
While they show that the whole family get involved with the running of the farm, there was a time when it just the two of them and a sweet love story surrounding how they met and fell for each other.
Back in 1995, Amanda was a 21-year-old trainee shepherdess while Clive, 42 at the time, was already running a farm of his own.
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A cold Yorkshire night brought them together for the first time, when Amanda knocked on Clive’s door to ask if she could borrow a “tup”.
This is a male sheep, which turned out to be a wool-laden cupid as Amanda and Clive’s eyes met and their lives changed forever.
Clive, who was previously married, said he was taken by Amanda’s presence the first time he saw her.
Speaking about that fateful moment, he recalled: “This six-foot something woman knocked on my door. I was very taken with her, you couldn’t not be.”
Amanda has admitted that is was not quite as instant for her and said that their relationship began as a “slow burn”.
The pair became friends but eventually romance started to blossom and when this happened, they quickly developed a love for each other.
Amanda said: “We kind of got to know each other, we kind of made friends first and then we went out a little bit together.
“With us both coming from non-farming backgrounds I think we’re kind of like peas in a pod really, although we didn’t know that at the time.”
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Five years later and the couple got married, in 2000, and have since gone in to have nine children together.
The pair have Raven, 20, Reuben, 17, Miles, 15, Edith, 12, Violet, 10, Sidney, nine, Anna, seven, Clemmie, five, and Nancy, four.
On their farm, on which the children do their bit to keep the family business going, there is 1,000 sheep, 40 cows, six dogs and four ponies.
Amanda has teased that she might not be finished with extending their family, saying “wait and see” when asked whether she was planning on having any more children.
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Speaking to The Sun, she said: “I think I’m too old to have a tenth child. I don’t know, wait and see. There was never any family planning, so who knows? Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do.
“People are quick to say to a mum-of-nine: ‘You can’t do this, you can’t do that’.”
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