Our Yorkshire Farm‘s Amanda Owen has shared insight into the current state of her relationship with ex-husband Clive following their shock split.
The Shepherdess, 50, and ex partner, 69, went their separate ways in June 2022 after 22 years of marriage, though they still work closely together to co-parent their nine children and star on their TV shows.
While they remain at the family farm in different houses their lives are still very much ‘intertwined’ and Amanda has admitted that it still feels like they are a couple.
Together they are parents to Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clemmy, and Nancy.
Amanda said: ‘I’m surrounded by people and obviously, one of them is Clive who I’m separated from, but sometimes it feels like I’m not,’
‘Like this morning, when I thought, “Why are your socks on the floor?” If we were all under one roof in a tiny space, we probably would’ve killed each other,
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Our Yorkshire Farm ‘s Amanda Owen has shared insight into the current state of her relationship with ex-husband Clive following their shock split
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The Shepherdess, 50, and ex partner, 69, went their separate ways in June 2022 after 22 years of marriage , though they still work closely together
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Together they share Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clemmy, and Nancy.
She told The Mirror: ‘With real clashes of character and all the rest of it,’ but our ‘home’ is pretty spacious, there are a lot of fields between us.’
Amanda previously lifted the lid on the realities of working with her former spouse amid their upcoming show, remarking that there was a moment that left her so infuriated that she ‘felt the tears coming’.
While for the most part on their show, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, the divorced pair get along well as the family attempt to renovate a derelict farmhouse.
However, recalling the time they nearly fell out during filming, she told The Mirror: ‘Clive starts trying to tell me how to use the internet. That was definitely tear-jerking in a painful manner, in that mansplaining way. I definitely felt the tears coming – then the red mist!’
As the two navigate their new dynamic along with their nine kids and a farm full of animals, Amanda admits that viewers will get a glimpse into the chaos of their everyday lives.
She shared: ‘You get to see the rough with the smooth on the farm. We aren’t The Waltons! You’ve got the scenery, you’ve got the children, you’ve got the animals… it’s got so many different elements all rolled into one. It’s like one of these home renovation projects, but Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen I ain’t!’
She then quipped their home life is like a cross between ‘Countryfile and The Osbournes’.
As she opened up on the trials and tribulations of farm life, including a goat eating her quad bike keys, Amanda noted that the struggles is what makes them ‘relatable’.
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While they remain at the family farm in different houses their lives are still very much ‘intertwined’ and Amanda has admitted that it still feels like they are a couple
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‘Like this morning, when I thought, “Why are your socks on the floor?” If we were all under one roof in a tiny space, we probably would’ve killed each other’
She added: ‘What makes it all relatable is that things don’t always go right. Any sort of itinerary just goes to the wall. No matter how many things you knock off the list, it always gets longer. Everything escalates.’
In June 2022, Amanda and Clive revealed that they had made ‘the difficult decision to separate’ but added that they would ‘continue to work on the farm and co-parent together’.
Amanda and Clive shot to fame on their reality TV show Our Yorkshire Farm, which showcases their life together in one of the remotest parts of England.
News of their separation had left fans of the show dismayed, but according to friends of the Owens they had been living apart for months before the announcement.
Rumours of marital troubles have been circling since late 2021, but they had been denied by the couple.
Amanda has also shared that the freedom her children enjoy is an invaluable lesson for the rest of their lives.
She told Yorkshire Life magazine: ‘Life here prepares you for life anywhere. It gives you a can-do mindset, common sense, and a work ethic. It teaches you that you can turn your hand to anything, that you won’t give up, and that sometimes life is hard and you don’t get the results you want, no matter how hard you try.’
‘You want to keep your child safe, of course. But danger comes in many forms, whether it’s vehicles, fast-flowing rivers, things with teeth and hooves, or even through a small screen. Who knows where the danger’s coming from, but you can’t live your life being risk-averse, and I wouldn’t teach that or champion it.
‘It’s seeing it and negating that danger, it’s not keeping them entirely away from it, because you learn the respect and how to operate, and those lessons are probably learned as well as anything here.’
