Yorkshire pastor Amanda Owen is separating from her husband Clive after 22 years of marriage
- Amanda Owen confirms that she has separated from her husband Clive in an official statement
- It has been speculated for months that the couple, who got married in 2000, had separated
- They say they will work on the farm and continue to co-parent their nine children
By Katie Feehan for Mailonline
Posted: 5:30 PM, June 9, 2022 | Updated: 5:59 PM, June 9, 2022
Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has confirmed that she and her husband Clive have separated.
The agricultural reality star and best-selling author issued a joint statement with Clive on social media in which she said the couple has made “the difficult decision to separate.”
The statement continued: “This has not been easy, but we both believe that it is the right choice for the future of our family.
“Even though we are no longer a couple, we continue to work on the farm and co-working together with our number one priority is the happiness and well-being of our children.”
The couple added that they would like to thank everyone for their support and asked for privacy while “working in this difficult time”.
It comes after months of speculation about the couple’s marriage that had become the talk of the Swaledale village.
Yorkshire pastor Amanda Owen is separating from her husband Clive after 22 years of marriage
The couple shared a joint statement on social media confirming that they had separated today
They had issued a statement late last year insisting that they had not separated, but described a “rocky patch”.
The couple, who star in a Channel 5 series about life at Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, admitted they were going through a “stony patch” in October and said “we never said our marriage was perfect” after that the locals revealed that they had been living apart. for months.
In October, the couple took steps to address the intense speculation with a joint statement that said: “With the TV show and the books we have always wanted to show the reality of life on the farm, and like any marriage we have the and stress, along with all the intricacies of what we do on the farm and raise nine children.
“We are a normal family and we have never said that our marriage is perfect. Unfortunately, the constant intrusion into our media lives has amplified a rocky patch we are going through. We ask the media to respect our privacy while we work. with this”.
The couple share nine children and were married in 2000 after meeting five years earlier.
Last year, neighbors told MailOnline that the couple had been living apart for months after Amanda was “caught in the crosshairs” of her Channel 5 show.
Pictured: Amanda Owen and her husband Clive with eight of their nine children in North Yorkshire
The couple, known as the “Kardashians of the Field,” were said to be “fighting to save their marriage” after more than two decades.
Mr Owen, who has been married to another woman for 13 years, has been described as “desperate” to mend his relationship amid “fears” that his marriage would end in divorce.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen became adored TV stars through the Channel 5 program Our Yorkshire Farm since 2018 after first appearing on the 2011 ITV series The Dales.
The program follows them and their nine children around the 2,000-acre Ravenseat farm as they fight the tough elements to cope with rural duties.
But the harsh lifestyle portrayed in the series seems to have taken its toll, with the fall of the couple becoming “the conversation of the people.”
Mrs. Owen is believed to have moved into her holiday home, The Firs, located at the top of the Upper Swaledale, in a valley and surrounded by five acres of meadows and pastures, while Mr. Owen he has stayed in the farmhouse, according to the villagers.
The six-bedroom cottage is accessed by a private road behind three gates and dates back to at least the 17th century.
It has a number of original features, including stone-flagged floors, beamed ceilings, whitewashed walls and a traditional range of black Yorkshire.
The couple rents the Ravenseat farm and its land to billionaire Robert Miller, who is the co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops) and is the father of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg and Pia Getty , the ” are girls from the 90s.