
Amanda Owen, actress of Our Yorkshire Farm, has opened up about the difficulties of co-parenting her nine children after her divorce from her husband Clive after 22 years of marriage.
The pair rose to prominence thanks to the Channel 5 show, which follows them and their family as they navigate life in Ravensear, near Richmond in North Yorkshire.
Amanda, 48, and Clive, 68, announced their separation in June, but they’ve since revealed that they’re still working together on the farm.
Amanda has spoken up about the divorce in a new interview, admitting it has been ‘difficult,’ but they ‘just have to get on with it’.
She told Radio Times: ‘Look, there are two simple facts: if he thought I was brilliant, and I thought he was brilliant, then we wouldn’t have separated.
‘It’s a fact, isn’t it? But, you know what, that’s not unique, it’s just how things are, pressures, all the rest of it.
‘But we have nine kids, with associated friends, girlfriends, and we just have to get on with it.’

Amanda added that she felt that the term co-parenting is a buzzword which essentially meant ‘we take it in turns to shout at the kids’.
Following their divorce, the Yorkshire shepherdess began filming Amanda Owen’s Farming Lives, her first solo series without Clive.
She noted that her time away had to be carefully planned because the filming was done in segments.
We go for the three-day rule: three days is the maximum number of sandwich boxes and stuff that we can get prepared and the maximum amount of carnage that I can cope with on my return,’ she said.
The new series sees her visiting other working farms across the UK, exploring their innovative methods and the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis.
She said: ‘If you’re in farming and agriculture, it’s very easy to feel like you’re unsupported, even vilified. There are so many people pointing fingers.
‘So it was actually really heartening to see how different people were making it work and how diverse modern farming is.’
Despite her TV series and range of farming books, she said she does not consider herself a celebrity farmer but admitted she can see the irony that her side projects can be more profitable than the actual work with the animals.

‘I’ve just paid a feed bill and our costs have doubled – and those prices never come back down,’ she said.
‘Obviously that hits your margins, so you’re then left trying to find ways to make money. But farmers are incredibly good at adapting.’
This comes after Amanda revealed that the former couple is still working together and that things have gotten simpler since their divorce.
‘People assume that because I’m separated from my husband, Clive, things are harder, but in fact it’s the opposite,’ she shared.
Amanda went on to explain: ‘We have two farms that are basically next door to each other, so it’s close enough for it to be useful, but far enough for us to have space.’
She continued to The Times: ‘Whatever our personal situation, there’s a farm to run and nine children to look after so we’re just working together, making it happen.’
The full interview is available now in Radio Times.
Our Yorkshire Farm is available to watch on Channel 5.