Amanda Owen updated fans on her former husband Clive’s recovery during a repeat broadcast of Our Farm Next Door, which airs tonight.

Amanda revealed to audiences that Clive had made his way back to the farm after his hip surgery because he had “lost his crutches”.

“It has been a few weeks since Clive had his hip operation,” she explained. “He has dumped the crutches, he’s lost his crutches, actually.

“It puts him in a bit of a better humour when he can come outside and be a part of what is going on.”

The mother-of-nine continued, “It has been very frustrating for him; that is me being polite,” reports the Manchester Evening News.

Clive Owen had a hip operation(Image: Channel 4)

Speaking directly to Clive afterwards, Amanda declared, “You have been unbearable,” which made Clive chuckle.

“I have not,” he shot back before insisting, “I have not, I have kept myself to myself. I’ve minded my own business, I don’t think I have shouted at anybody or anything.”

Offering him an illustration, Amanda responded: “One day, you were sat in your underpants staring at the floor in the kitchen.”

“It’s a really frustrating and horrible thing,” Clive remarked as Amanda told him, “You really are a frustrating and horrible thing.”

Clive appeared unfazed by the remark as he brushed it off with laughter.

Amanda Owen(Image: Channel 4)

Throughout the repeat of last week’s Our Farm Next Door episode, Clive acknowledged he had been a “horrible patient” after his procedure.

“I have definitely been a horrible patient because I am impatient,” the farmer admitted. “I couldn’t have managed without these lads to do what needed doing. So yeah, they have done very well.

“It means from now on they needn’t hand the reins back to me, they can just carry on,” he added before joking with his son: “I could find myself redundant, what do you think, Miley?”

“That is what family farms are all about, everybody has to help.”

Our Farm Next Door is available to watch on All4.