As of 2026, Amanda Owen — the Yorkshire Shepherdess and star of Our Yorkshire Farm and Our Farm Next Door — does not have a current partner. Her 22-year marriage to Clive Owen ended in separation in June 2022, followed by a subsequent romance with web designer Robert Davies that ended in 2024, with Amanda confirming the pair are no longer together or in contact. When asked about her current relationship status ahead of the launch of the latest series of Our Farm Next Door in early 2026, Amanda was characteristically direct: “Life goes on, relationships come and go. Sometimes you’re lucky and you stay with the same person for all of your life, and sometimes that doesn’t happen. But I have no regrets.”
In this complete guide to Amanda Owen’s relationships and personal life, you will find everything you need to know: her 22-year marriage to Clive Owen, how they met at Ravenseat Farm in 1996, the nine children they share together, the reasons for their separation, her subsequent relationship with Robert Davies, how that came to an end, her current single status and philosophy on life after relationship breakdown, the remarkable co-parenting arrangement she maintains with Clive, and the ongoing television work that keeps the Owen family very much in the public eye in 2025 and 2026.
Who Is Amanda Owen?
The Yorkshire Shepherdess: A Brief Biography
Amanda Jayne Owen (née Livingstone) was born in September 1974 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire — a fact that surprises many viewers of her television work, who might assume she was born and bred in the rural Dales landscape she now calls home. Growing up in a suburban semi-detached house in an urban Yorkshire town, Amanda was inspired from an early age by the James Herriot books — the beloved series of veterinary stories set in the Yorkshire Dales — and the television adaptation All Creatures Great and Small. She dreamed of working with animals and in the countryside, and despite her urban upbringing, pursued that dream with the single-minded determination that would later become a defining characteristic of her public persona.
After leaving Huddersfield, Amanda worked a series of physically demanding rural jobs — freelance shepherdess, cow milker, and alpaca shearer — across farms in Wiltshire, Cumbria, and other parts of the country, building her skills and experience as she pursued the farming life she had always imagined. It was this itinerant professional life that eventually brought her to Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, at the age of twenty-one — and to the meeting that would change everything about her personal and professional future.
Ravenseat Farm and Her Life’s Work
Ravenseat Farm sits in the remote upper reaches of Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park — one of the highest, most isolated, and most beautiful working farms in England. The farm covers approximately 2,000 acres of upland moor and meadow, and it operates primarily as a sheep farm, running approximately 900 Swaledale sheep alongside a smaller herd of cattle. The farm lies about an hour’s walk west of the village of Keld, the nearest settlement, with Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria being the nearest town of any size. The farm sits on the Coast-to-Coast walking route — the famous long-distance walk from St Bees on the Cumbrian coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire coast, devised by fell-walker Alfred Wainwright — and Amanda has for many years offered cream teas to walkers passing through during the summer season.
It is this farm — its landscape, its seasons, its animals, and its extraordinary isolation — that forms the backdrop for everything Amanda Owen has made of her public life. The farm is not simply where she lives; it is the foundation of her identity as the Yorkshire Shepherdess, the subject of her bestselling books, the setting of her television series, and the context within which all of her personal relationships have been played out. Understanding Amanda Owen as a person — and understanding her relationships — is impossible without understanding Ravenseat Farm and what it means to the people who live and work there.
Amanda Owen’s Marriage to Clive Owen
How They Met: A Night Errand in 1996
The story of how Amanda Owen and Clive Owen met is one of the more unlikely romantic origins in British television celebrity history, and it is one Amanda has told many times in her books, interviews, and public appearances. In 1996, twenty-one-year-old Amanda was working as a contract shepherdess when her employer sent her on an errand to collect a ram from a farm called Ravenseat, located in the remote upper reaches of Swaledale. The farmer who met her that night was Clive Owen — a recently divorced man in his early forties, twenty-one years Amanda’s senior. Amanda has been disarmingly frank about her initial feelings regarding any romantic potential: “I wasn’t interested in any shenanigans,” she told The Telegraph in 2014.
But Clive found reasons to keep asking the young shepherdess back to help with his flock, and a friendship developed that eventually became something more. Amanda moved into Ravenseat, and what had begun as a professional relationship became the partnership that would define both their lives. They married in 2000, four years after that first meeting. The scale of what they built together over the following two decades — nine children, a working farm, a bestselling book series, a television phenomenon that reached over three million weekly viewers — represents one of the more remarkable stories in British rural life in the modern era.
Marriage, Family Life, and Nine Children
Amanda and Clive’s marriage produced nine children, all of whom grew up at Ravenseat as active participants in the working life of the farm. Their children, in birth order, are: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine (known as Clemmy), and Nancy. The arrivals were spread over approximately two decades, with Nancy — the youngest — born after the family had already become television celebrities through Our Yorkshire Farm. The large family and its remote, self-sufficient rural life became the central attraction of the Owens’ television career, generating the audience connection that made Our Yorkshire Farm Channel 5’s highest-rated factual programme of 2018, drawing over three million viewers per episode.
The practical realities of raising nine children on a remote upland farm in North Yorkshire were as extraordinary as they appeared. The nearest school required a significant daily journey; medical emergencies in a property that could be cut off by snow in winter demanded careful preparation; the physical demands of the farm — lambing season alone involved hundreds of sheep over weeks — placed constant pressure on the adults. Amanda has described these realities in her books with a combination of practical matter-of-factness and genuine warmth, and this authenticity — the sense that their lives were genuinely as demanding and as rewarding as they appeared — is what made the television work so compelling to millions.
The Age Gap: 21 Years Between Them
The age gap between Amanda and Clive — twenty-one years, with Clive born in 1951 and Amanda in 1974 — was a subject of regular media comment and became an increasingly relevant factor in the breakdown of their relationship. For the first two decades of their marriage, these differences appear to have been successfully navigated within the context of their shared commitment to the farm and the raising of their family. As Amanda’s public profile grew — through social media, books, and television — the dynamics shifted.
Clive Owen has been entirely candid about his own failings in this period. He told the Daily Mail directly: “I wanted to keep her to myself and for her not to leave the farm. That’s really when the relationship started to go bad, I suppose. I was jealous, and I was difficult to deal with.” He acknowledged “drinking a lot of whisky” and described arguments that worsened as his behaviour became harder for Amanda to manage. By the time of their separation in 2022, Clive was in his early seventies while Amanda was still in her late forties — different stages of life in terms of energy, ambition, and appetite for public engagement that created real divergence in their shared domestic world.
The Separation: June 2022
Why the Marriage Ended
Amanda and Clive Owen announced their separation in June 2022, after twenty-two years of marriage, via Amanda’s Instagram Story: “Clive and I are sad to confirm that we have made the difficult decision to separate. This hasn’t been easy, but we both believe it’s the right choice for the future of our family. Although we are no longer a couple, we continue to work on the farm and co-parent together, with our number one priority being the happiness and well-being of our children.”
The separation had been building across several years, with multiple contributing factors. The pandemic lockdown period of 2020-21 was a significant turning point for Amanda’s thinking. The restrictions paradoxically gave her a different kind of clarity: the absence of external commitments — public appearances, tours, media engagements — that normally took her away from the farm left her with mental space to assess the state of her marriage and her happiness. She has described this period as one in which she “realised I felt calmer being apart from Clive.” Amanda also spoke about the tension created by her professional success: “I would return home not knowing what to expect or what his reaction would be. I’d feel the tension in the air and await the explosion.”
A Remarkable Post-Separation Relationship
Despite the pain of ending a 22-year marriage with nine children, Amanda and Clive have consistently described their separation as amicable and have maintained a close working and family relationship throughout. Both continue to live and work at Ravenseat Farm. They co-parent nine children. They have returned to television together in Our Farm Next Door on Channel 4, which depicts them working side-by-side on a major renovation project. Amanda has described Clive as her “confidant” — the person she now turns to when she has worries, and who brings her his in return. They describe themselves as “separated, but wholly united” in terms of their commitment to their children and the farm.
Fan photographs of the family that Amanda has shared on social media have generated genuine speculation about whether the couple has reconciled — so comfortable and connected do they appear together. This reflects a genuine quality of their post-separation relationship: the removal of the romantic and domestic tension has allowed a friendship and mutual respect to flourish between two people who remain profoundly connected by the farm, the children, and twenty-six years of shared history.
Robert Davies: Amanda’s Post-Marriage Relationship
Who Is Robert Davies?
Robert Davies is a web designer who had been known to both Amanda and Clive Owen for several years before he became Amanda’s partner after her separation. He had worked as a professional contact of the family, building and managing the digital presence of their farm operations — the websites and digital infrastructure that supported the farm shop, Amanda’s books, and other commercial activities associated with the Ravenseat brand. The connection between Davies and both Owens appears to have been longstanding and friendly before it became romantic.
Davies is significantly older than Amanda — he was reported to be approximately seventy-one years old when the relationship became public in 2023, making him some twenty-three years her senior. Having been in a marriage with a man twenty-one years her senior, Amanda’s next relationship involved a partner of even greater age difference. The connection appeared to be based primarily on the contrast Davies offered to the difficult domestic atmosphere of the latter years of the marriage. Amanda described this contrast herself: “What he offered was conversation rather than confrontation.”
How the Relationship Came About
The most striking element of how the Amanda-Davies relationship began was that Clive Owen himself was involved in its development. Amanda explained in detail to the MailOnline: “Rob was a friend that Clive and I had both known for a long time. He put together the farm website and managed the digital side of the business, things we couldn’t do ourselves. What he offered was conversation rather than confrontation, and Clive knew about it from the very beginning — he actually suggested Rob and I would be a good match. At that point, a few years ago now, Clive was also seeing someone else and was openly dating. It wasn’t a secret; everyone around us knew, even the children.” Clive confirmed this account: “Rob had always been a good friend to us, and we’d known him a long time.”
The public revelation of the relationship in 2023 attracted intense media attention partly because Davies’s then-wife Yusami Davies spoke to the press about the circumstances, claiming she had discovered a love note from Amanda in her husband’s car and that the relationship had been developing for several years. The competing accounts created considerable controversy. Amanda’s position was consistent throughout: the relationship developed in full knowledge of Clive, after the marriage had effectively ended emotionally. The controversy generated by the media coverage would ultimately prove fatal to the relationship itself.
Why the Davies Relationship Ended
The relationship between Amanda Owen and Robert Davies ended in 2024. Amanda confirmed this in interviews ahead of the 2026 series launch of Our Farm Next Door. Her explanation was direct and revealing: “Rob and I were both shattered by the way the media pursued us and reported it, and as a result, Rob and I are no longer together or in touch.” The intensity of press coverage and scrutiny that accompanied a romance involving a nationally known television celebrity proved unsustainable for a man who was a private professional — a web designer rather than a public figure — with no preparation or appetite for the kind of tabloid attention that followed. Amanda’s description of them as “no longer together or in contact” indicates a clean break rather than any maintained friendship.
Amanda Owen in 2025-2026: Single and Moving Forward
Current Relationship Status
As of 2026, Amanda Owen is single and has not indicated any new romantic interest. Her philosophical approach to her relationship history reflects a genuine equanimity. “Life goes on, relationships come and go. Sometimes you’re lucky and you stay with the same person for all of your life, and sometimes that doesn’t happen. But I have no regrets.” This is not the language of someone in pain but of someone who has processed significant change and found a stable and purposeful present. The farm, the children, the television work, the books, and the ongoing creative projects provide a full and demanding life that leaves limited space for romantic preoccupation.
Amanda’s life in 2025-2026 is characterised by enormous professional activity. She is fifty years old, running a major sheep farm, raising nine children, starring in an ongoing television series, launching a children’s book imprint with Puffin, maintaining a popular social media presence, and performing live shows about her farming life. The sheer volume of commitment — professional and familial — provides both purpose and company without the requirement for a romantic relationship to complete the picture.
Our Farm Next Door and the Continued Owen Story
The most significant development in Amanda Owen’s public life since her separation is the launch and success of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids on More4. The series depicts Amanda and Clive working together to renovate Anty John — a 300-year-old derelict barn adjacent to their Ravenseat property — into a potential family home for the future. It is a project that speaks to Amanda’s continuing commitment to Ravenseat and to the future she is building for her children there, regardless of changes in her personal life.
Series 3 and 4 were filmed between May and December 2025 and began broadcasting in early 2026 on More4, on Monday evenings at 9pm. Amanda described the renovation’s progress with evident excitement: “To see where we’ve got to now from where we began, it’s amazing. From not even having a roof to now being able to basically shut all the doors, it’s incredible.” For audiences following the Owen family’s story, the continuation of television work together represents the most compelling dimension of their post-separation life: a family still very much intact in every way except the romantic partnership between its two adult heads.
Amanda Owen’s Writing and Books
Bestselling Author
Amanda Owen is not only a television personality but a genuinely successful and prolific author whose books have consistently performed well in national bestseller charts. Her first book, The Yorkshire Shepherdess, published in April 2014, became a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and spent five weeks in the chart. Written with her characteristic directness and warmth, it told the story of her journey from urban Huddersfield to remote Ravenseat. The success led to A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2016, Sunday Times bestseller), The Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2021), and further titles. She maintains a monthly column in the Dalesman magazine and previously wrote a Sunday Mirror column for two and a half years.
In June 2025, Amanda announced a partnership with Puffin — Penguin’s prestigious children’s imprint — to write seven children’s books across different age categories. The first, Christmas Tales from the Farm, illustrated by Becca Hall, was published in September 2025 and features characters drawn directly from Ravenseat life: a runaway reindeer, special chickens, and a clever sheepdog. The Puffin partnership represents a natural creative evolution for a writer whose appeal has always included strong family and nature dimensions, and whose children’s experience of farm life provides an essentially limitless source of story material.
Amanda Owen’s Nine Children
The Owen Family in Full
Amanda and Clive Owen’s nine children — Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine (Clemmy), and Nancy — are the most prominent element of the family’s public identity and one of the core reasons the Owens became so compelling as a television family. They span a significant age range: the eldest, Raven, is in her mid-twenties and has grown into adult life in full public view, while Nancy, the youngest, was born after the family became national television personalities. Growing up at Ravenseat as genuine contributors to the farm’s work — not as props for a programme but as real participants in lambing, herding, and the daily rhythms of upland farming — they developed the capabilities and character that viewers found so appealing.
Reuben, the eldest son, has developed the most independent television profile, having appeared in Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive (Channel 5) and Reuben: Life in the Dales — series that document his establishment of a digger and earthworks business alongside his father in Cumbria. Amanda has spoken with evident pride about the agricultural and practical skills her children have developed, noting that the farm’s opportunities — to be genuinely capable and competent from an early age — represent an education that no formal institution could provide.
Practical Information: Following Amanda Owen
Television and Streaming
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids airs on More4 (Channel 4 family). New series broadcast in early 2026, Mondays at 9pm on More4. Available on the Channel 4 streaming service on demand. Our Yorkshire Farm (the original Channel 5 series, 2018-2022) is available on the Channel 5 streaming platform My5. Reuben’s spin-off series Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive and Reuben: Life in the Dales are also on My5.
Books
All of Amanda Owen’s books are available through major online booksellers (Amazon, Waterstones, Bookshop.org) and in physical bookshops throughout the UK. Prices for paperback editions typically range from £9.99 to £14.99. Her children’s book Christmas Tales from the Farm (Puffin, 2025) is priced at approximately £10.99 (hardback) and targeted at readers aged eight to twelve. Further Puffin titles in the partnership are expected to be announced and published across 2026 and beyond.
Social Media
Amanda Owen is active on Instagram (@amandaowenyorkshireshepherdess) and maintains a presence on X (formerly Twitter). Her Instagram account posts regularly about farm life, animals, seasons, family moments, and professional activities. This is the primary channel through which Amanda communicates directly with her fan community and provides the most up-to-date picture of life at Ravenseat between television series.
Visiting the Ravenseat Area
Ravenseat Farm is located in upper Swaledale, accessible by car via narrow Dales lanes from Richmond (approximately 45 minutes), Leyburn, or Hawes. The farm itself is a private working farm and not a general visitor attraction, though it sits on the Coast-to-Coast walking route and Amanda has historically offered cream teas to walkers during the summer season. The surrounding landscape of Swaledale is itself a significant draw for visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park — one of the most spectacular and historically significant upland valleys in England, with the ruins of old lead mining infrastructure adding a distinctive industrial-historic layer to the natural beauty of the moorland.
For those visiting the area, nearby Keld is the closest village, and the market towns of Reeth and Richmond are good bases for exploring Swaledale. The Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes provides excellent context for the farming traditions of the area that form the backdrop for everything Amanda Owen does.
FAQs
Who is Amanda Owen’s current partner?
As of 2026, Amanda Owen does not have a current partner. She separated from her husband of 22 years, Clive Owen, in June 2022. Following the separation, she had a relationship with web designer Robert Davies, which ended in 2024, with Amanda confirming the pair are no longer together or in contact. Her public statements about her current relationship status have been philosophical and relaxed: “Life goes on, relationships come and go. Sometimes you’re lucky and you stay with the same person for all of your life, and sometimes that doesn’t happen. But I have no regrets.”
Are Amanda and Clive Owen getting back together?
No — there is no confirmed indication that Amanda and Clive Owen are getting back together. They separated in June 2022 after 22 years of marriage. They continue to live and work at Ravenseat Farm, co-parent their nine children, and appear together on television in the More4 series Our Farm Next Door. Fan photographs of the family frequently spark speculation about reconciliation, given how comfortable they appear together, but Amanda and Clive have consistently described themselves as separated co-parents rather than a rekindled couple. Amanda has described Clive as her confidant and closest support, but has not suggested any intention of restoring their romantic relationship.
Who is Robert Davies, Amanda Owen’s former boyfriend?
Robert Davies is a web designer who worked for the Owen family building and managing their digital presence and websites. He had been known to both Amanda and Clive Owen for several years before becoming Amanda’s partner after her separation from Clive. Clive himself has stated that he suggested Davies as a potential match for Amanda after their own separation. The relationship became public in 2023 but attracted intense media scrutiny, partly because Davies’s former wife gave press interviews about the circumstances of their relationship. Amanda and Davies separated in 2024 and she has confirmed they are no longer in contact.
Why did Amanda Owen split from Clive?
Amanda and Clive Owen separated in June 2022 primarily because of tensions generated by Amanda’s growing television celebrity, which Clive struggled to accept, combined with a recognition during the pandemic lockdown that Amanda felt calmer apart from Clive than she did within the marriage. Clive has taken personal responsibility, acknowledging he was jealous, difficult, and admitted to “drinking a lot of whisky” during a difficult period. He told the Daily Mail: “I wanted to keep her to myself and for her not to leave the farm. That’s really when the relationship started to go bad.” Their significant age gap (21 years) may also have contributed to different outlooks on life and ambition as they entered their forties and sixties respectively.
How many children does Amanda Owen have?
Amanda Owen has nine children with her former husband Clive Owen: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine (Clemmy), and Nancy. They have grown up at Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale and have featured throughout the Our Yorkshire Farm and Our Farm Next Door television series. Reuben, the eldest son, has developed his own television career with the spin-off series Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive and Reuben: Life in the Dales on Channel 5.
How did Amanda Owen become famous?
Amanda Owen first gained public attention through her Twitter presence as “The Yorkshire Shepherdess,” posting images and updates about farm life at Ravenseat that attracted a growing following. Her first book The Yorkshire Shepherdess was published in 2014 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. The family appeared in ITV’s The Dales in 2011 and Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild on Channel 5 in 2015, which led to their own Channel 5 documentary series Our Yorkshire Farm. The series launched on 27 November 2018 and became one of Channel 5’s most-watched factual programmes, reaching over three million weekly viewers at its peak and making Amanda Owen a nationally recognised figure.
What is Amanda Owen’s new TV show?
Amanda Owen’s current television series is Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids on More4 (Channel 4). The series depicts Amanda and Clive Owen working together to renovate a 300-year-old derelict barn called Anty John, adjacent to their Ravenseat property, into a potential family home. It launched in October 2024 and Series 3 and 4, filmed between May and December 2025, began broadcasting in early 2026 on Monday evenings at 9pm on More4. The series is available on demand on the Channel 4 streaming platform.
What happened between Amanda Owen and Clive Owen on TV?
Amanda and Clive Owen were the stars of Our Yorkshire Farm on Channel 5, which ran from 2018 until 2022 and depicted their family life at Ravenseat Farm. The series ended following their public separation in June 2022. Clive subsequently appeared with son Reuben in Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive on Channel 5. Amanda appeared in her own More4 series Farming Lives. In October 2024, both Amanda and Clive returned to screens together in Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids on More4, working together on a barn renovation project — a co-parenting and co-working television arrangement that has proved compelling to viewers.
Where is Ravenseat Farm and can you visit?
Ravenseat Farm is located in upper Swaledale, North Yorkshire, one of the most remote farming locations in England. It is accessible by car via narrow Dales lanes, approximately 45 minutes from Richmond. The farm is a private working farm and not a general visitor attraction, but it sits on the famous Coast-to-Coast walking route and Amanda has historically offered cream teas to walkers during the summer season. Visitors to the Yorkshire Dales who want to experience the landscape featured in Our Yorkshire Farm should explore Swaledale generally, with Keld, Muker, Gunnerside, and Reeth all offering access to the valley’s dramatic upland scenery.
Is Amanda Owen still a shepherdess?
Yes. Amanda Owen continues to farm full-time at Ravenseat Farm, running approximately 900 Swaledale sheep and 30 cattle across 2,000 acres. Despite the demands of her television career, book writing, live shows, and social media presence, she has consistently emphasised that farming is her primary identity and first commitment. The farm’s seasonal rhythms — lambing in spring, tupping in autumn, haymaking in summer, winter preparation — continue to structure her year as they have done for the three decades she has lived at Ravenseat.
Who are Amanda Owen’s children and where are they now?
Amanda and Clive Owen’s nine children are Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine (Clemmy), and Nancy. The eldest, Raven, is in her mid-twenties. Reuben has developed his own television career with Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive and Reuben: Life in the Dales on Channel 5, where he appears alongside his father running a digger business in Cumbria. He is in a relationship with Sarah Dow. The younger children are at various stages of teenage and school years. All continue to live and be involved in the farm and appear in the family’s current More4 series.
The Impact of Television Fame on the Owen Marriage
Our Yorkshire Farm and the Celebrity Effect
The television series Our Yorkshire Farm, which launched on Channel 5 on 27 November 2018, was one of the most unexpectedly successful factual programmes in British television history. Channel 5 had commissioned an observational documentary about a remote farming family in the Yorkshire Dales — a niche premise that the channel expected to attract a modest, engaged audience of countryside enthusiasts. What the series actually delivered was a phenomenon: more than three million weekly viewers at its peak, making it the channel’s highest-rated factual show of the year in the 8pm slot and generating a level of national affection for the Owen family that few television productions had achieved in the preceding decade.
The success created a dramatically transformed world for Amanda and Clive Owen. Before Our Yorkshire Farm, they were known primarily to a relatively small community of book readers — Amanda’s Yorkshire Shepherdess titles had sold well but remained within the niche of countryside and farming literature. After the first series of the show, they were nationally recognised television personalities, stopped in the street, recognised at shows and events, invited to media appearances and interviews across the country. This transformation was profound, exciting, and — as it turned out — deeply destabilising for the domestic balance of their marriage.
Amanda thrived in the public environment the television success created. She was naturally engaging on screen, articulate and warm in interviews, effective and confident in the live show appearances that became an important part of her professional schedule. She had long demonstrated creative and communicative gifts through her writing, her photography, and her social media presence — the television success gave these gifts a vastly larger platform and validated a range of ambitions that extended beyond the farm. For Clive, who was in his mid-sixties at the time of the show’s launch and had spent his entire adult life as a farmer rather than a public figure, the transformation was more disorienting.
Clive’s Honest Self-Assessment
Clive Owen’s candour about his own role in the marriage’s breakdown is one of the more striking examples of honest public self-reflection by a television personality in recent years. Rather than presenting himself as the victim of Amanda’s growing celebrity or offering carefully managed public statements, Clive has spoken with direct honesty about his jealousy, his difficult behaviour, and the specific ways in which his response to Amanda’s success damaged their relationship.
He told TV host Lorraine Kelly: “Oh, without a doubt, and once a wedge begins to come between you for whatever reason… we were under pressure, it was crazy.” His acknowledgement that “I wanted to keep her to myself and for her not to leave the farm” captures both the possessiveness that he recognises as having been a problem and the underlying emotional reality: that Amanda’s departure from the farm for professional commitments genuinely unsettled him in ways he could not manage constructively. His admission of “drinking a lot of whisky” as a response to the pressures of the situation is both vulnerable and honestly self-critical.
For Amanda, the recognition of what her partner’s behaviour meant for her daily life took time and space to fully process. “I would return home not knowing what to expect or what his reaction would be. I’d feel the tension in the air and await the explosion.” This description — of returning to her own home uncertain whether she would be met with warmth or hostility — captures an emotional reality that many viewers of the programme, who saw only the warm, collaborative family depicted on screen, would never have suspected. The contrast between the public image and the private reality is itself a comment on the limits of observational documentary as a window into truth.
Amanda Owen’s Philosophy of Life and Relationships
“Life Goes On”: Her Approach to Personal Upheaval
The way Amanda Owen talks publicly about the breakdown of her marriage and her subsequent relationship is distinctive in the modern celebrity landscape. Most public figures in her position would either retreat from personal disclosure behind a wall of managed statements or would lean into the emotional drama to generate audience sympathy. Amanda does neither. She is honest, direct, and remarkably composed about personal experiences that were clearly painful and complex.
Her signature phrase in interviews about her relationship history — “Life goes on, relationships come and go” — captures an attitude that is neither dismissive of what has happened nor melodramatic about it. She acknowledges the difficulty and complexity without wallowing in it, and she consistently orients the conversation toward the present and future rather than the past. This disposition is, arguably, a product of a life spent farming: farming demands exactly this kind of engagement with reality as it is, not as one would prefer it to be. Lambing goes wrong; animals die; the weather destroys months of work. The farmer who spends time grieving what cannot be changed or raging against events that are simply part of the natural order does not last long in the profession. A similar adaptability appears to characterise Amanda’s personal philosophy.
She has also articulated a clear sense of what remains stable and valuable regardless of the changes in her romantic life: the farm, the children, the landscape of Swaledale, and the work that gives her days structure and purpose. “I am just getting on with my life as an independent woman, looking after the kids and my sheep,” she said after the initial separation announcement — a statement that manages to be entirely practical and deeply revealing about her priorities simultaneously.
Co-Parenting as a Model
The relationship that Amanda and Clive have developed since their separation — co-parenting nine children from the same farm where they both continue to live and work — is unusual enough to have attracted genuine media interest and public admiration. The logistics alone are extraordinary: two separated parents, living on the same remote farm, sharing daily proximity, managing the care and development of children ranging from toddlers to young adults, and simultaneously navigating the professional demands of a television career that includes filming at the farm for extended periods.
Both have described the arrangement as genuinely functional rather than merely amicable on the surface. Amanda has said that it “barely feels like they’ve separated” at times — a comment that speaks both to the closeness they maintain and to the extent to which Ravenseat Farm itself, as a shared project and shared commitment, provides continuity and common purpose that softens the edges of the separation. Their description of themselves as “separated, but wholly united” is not merely a public relations formulation but appears to reflect a genuine shared understanding of what their relationship now is and what it can offer their children.
The fact that they have chosen to return to television together — not separately, not in spin-off shows that separate them into different programmes, but in a shared series that depicts them working side by side — is the most powerful evidence that the co-parenting model is working. Television cameras capture what is real: sustained performance of togetherness over months of filming would be impossible to sustain if the underlying reality were one of genuine estrangement or hostility.
The Owen Family’s Impact on British Rural Culture
Our Yorkshire Farm and the Farming Conversation
Beyond its entertainment value, Our Yorkshire Farm has had a meaningful impact on public awareness and appreciation of British farming and rural life. The series reached audiences who had no prior connection to or interest in agricultural subjects, and introduced them to a world of genuine beauty, extraordinary hard work, and fragile economic reality that most urban and suburban viewers had never encountered. Amanda Owen’s gift — as a communicator, an author, and a television personality — is her ability to make the specific particular of her life at Ravenseat feel universal in its emotional resonances. The joys of lambing season, the anxiety of a bad winter, the love of a good working dog, the pride in a farm that has been kept going through difficult times: these experiences are specific to farming but they echo human experiences of care, resilience, and attachment that reach well beyond the agricultural community.
The timing of the series was also significant. Our Yorkshire Farm launched in 2018 and reached the height of its popularity during and after the pandemic years of 2020-21 — a period when millions of people in the UK were confined to urban and suburban spaces and found in the Owens’ remote Dales life a particular kind of consolation and inspiration. Viewer messages from the pandemic period frequently described the show as a lifeline: a window into a world that felt more real, more grounded, and more fundamentally connected to the things that matter than the lives many viewers were experiencing in lockdown. This emotional charge contributed to the extraordinary affection the audience developed for the family.
The Yorkshire Shepherdess as a Cultural Figure
Amanda Owen’s significance as a cultural figure extends beyond her specific fame as a television personality. She represents a genuinely unusual combination: a woman who has achieved major professional success as an author and television presenter while simultaneously working full-time in one of the most physically demanding and economically precarious occupations in the British economy. The shepherdess of her public identity is not a persona or a brand but a literal description of her daily occupation. This authenticity — the genuine integration of her professional and public life — is rare in a celebrity landscape where many public figures perform versions of lives they do not actually lead.
Her books have contributed meaningfully to the popular literature of British rural life, a tradition that includes James Herriot, the Brontë sisters, and a range of contemporary writers who have found national audiences for accounts of northern rural England. The Yorkshire Shepherdess series in particular has introduced many readers — particularly women — to an account of rural life that centres female experience, female capability, and female ambition without romanticising or sentimentalising it. Amanda Owen’s Ravenseat is a beautiful place, but it is also a place of relentless physical work, financial uncertainty, and constant practical challenge. Her refusal to present it as anything other than it is constitutes its own kind of cultural statement.
What Comes Next for Amanda Owen
Professional Plans for 2026 and Beyond
Amanda Owen’s professional life in 2026 is characterised by momentum in multiple directions simultaneously. The ongoing Our Farm Next Door television series with Channel 4 provides the continuing television platform that keeps her in the national consciousness. The Puffin children’s books partnership represents a major new creative direction that has the potential to introduce her to an entirely new audience — children and families who may have no connection to her adult books or her television work. The live show touring — performances of her solo storytelling about farming life that have sold out venues of between 400 and 500 people — continues to provide direct engagement with her audience in a format she has spoken of with genuine enthusiasm.
The renovation of Anty John — the derelict barn that forms the focus of the current television series — provides a narrative arc that will play out over multiple series and years of filming as the structure is transformed from a roofless ruin into a habitable family home. Amanda has described the project as deeply meaningful for the family’s future: ensuring that Ravenseat can accommodate the family’s children, and potentially grandchildren, as they grow into adulthood and begin families of their own. This long-term commitment to the physical future of Ravenseat speaks to an orientation toward permanence and place that runs through everything Amanda does.
The Enduring Appeal of the Yorkshire Shepherdess
What makes Amanda Owen compelling as a public figure — and what explains the sustained and genuinely warm public interest in her personal life, including her relationships — is the sense that she is entirely and consistently herself in every context. She is the same in an interview about her relationship breakdown as she is describing the difficulties of lambing in a snowstorm, the same on Instagram as she is in her books, the same when discussing painful personal subjects as when she is enthusiastically promoting a new television series. This consistency of character across contexts, combined with an evident intelligence and genuine love for the life she has built, creates the kind of public persona that people feel they know — and that generates the kind of sustained interest in her personal circumstances that explains why “Amanda Owen partner” is among the most searched terms associated with her name.
The questions people bring to searches about Amanda Owen’s partner are not prurient or intrusive but express a genuine interest in the wellbeing and happiness of a woman many viewers feel connected to through years of watching her navigate an extraordinary life. The honest, direct answers she has provided to those questions — no current partner, relationships that have come and gone, no regrets, life continuing at Ravenseat with her children and her sheep — are, in their own way, exactly the kind of authenticity that made her famous in the first place.
Amanda Owen and Clive Owen: Still a Team
The Unconventional Modern Family
The arrangement that Amanda and Clive Owen have developed since their 2022 separation challenges straightforward categorisations. They are not together, but they are not apart in any meaningful practical sense. They separated their romantic partnership, but not the farm, not the parenting, not the professional television work, not even the physical proximity — both continue to live at Ravenseat. Amanda has said: “This kind of relationship — where parents work together and ‘get on’ but are separated — is not so unusual nowadays. So we’re proud to share our new reality (in every sense of the word) on our next family TV adventure.”
The willingness to share this “new reality” publicly — not with defensiveness or embarrassment but with straightforward pride — is characteristic of how both Amanda and Clive have handled the entire situation. They have chosen radical transparency at a time when most separated celebrity couples retreat behind careful public relations management and carefully curated separate narratives. By returning to television together, working together on a shared project in front of cameras, and speaking openly in interviews about both the difficulties of the past and the genuinely functional nature of their present arrangement, they have offered the public a more honest and arguably more useful picture of what separation can look like than the conventional narrative of divorced celebrity couples in mutual enmity.
Clive Still Central to Amanda’s Life
One of the more touching elements of Amanda’s current public discourse about her personal life is the consistent affirmation of Clive’s importance to her. “Clive is the person that I talk to now. He’s my confidant and he will now listen to my worries and I his.” This is not the language of two people who have merely tolerated each other for the children’s sake but of two people who have found, in the removal of romantic and domestic pressure, a genuine friendship and mutual support that apparently eluded them in the later years of the marriage.
Amanda has also noted that at times their current arrangement “barely feels like they’ve separated” — a comment that fans speculating about reconciliation have taken as a hint, but which more accurately reflects the reality that the practical and emotional infrastructure of their shared life was never dismantled. They still share the farm. They still share the children’s daily lives. They still share the professional project of managing the Ravenseat brand and the television career that emerged from it. The separation ended one dimension of their relationship — the romantic — without eliminating any of the others.
Clive Owen’s own behaviour appears to have changed significantly since the separation. The jealousy, the difficult arguments, and the acknowledged drinking that characterised the difficult years have apparently been replaced by a more accepting and less controlling approach. The man who sits beside Amanda in Our Farm Next Door, working patiently on a complex renovation project, chatting easily on camera about the day’s challenges, looks very different from the person Amanda described returning home to with anxiety. Whatever personal work both have done in the years since the separation, the public evidence suggests it has produced a genuinely better version of their relationship.
The Owen Family at Ravenseat: Daily Life in 2026
Life on a 2,000-Acre Farm in 2026
Ravenseat Farm continues to operate as the complex, demanding, and beautiful enterprise it has always been. The farm runs approximately 900 Swaledale sheep and 30 cattle on 2,000 acres of upland moorland, meadow, and rough grazing. The agricultural calendar remains the spine of daily life: late winter and spring are dominated by lambing, when the ewes give birth across several weeks and the farm’s population temporarily doubles; summer involves haymaking, maintenance, and the cream tea season for Coast-to-Coast walkers; autumn is tupping time, when rams are introduced to the ewes to begin the next lambing cycle; winter brings the constant challenge of weather, feeding, and keeping stock healthy through harsh Dales conditions.
The addition of the Anty John renovation project — the derelict barn being transformed for the Our Farm Next Door series — adds a major construction dimension to the farm’s activity that has been ongoing since filming began in earnest. The project involves skilled trades alongside the farm team’s own labour: stonework, roofing, plumbing, and electrical installation that must be coordinated within the constraints of a working farm in a remote location with limited access. Amanda’s description of progress — “from not even having a roof to now being able to basically shut all the doors” — captures the remarkable transformation that has been documented across the series and that represents, for the family, a practical investment in the farm’s future as well as a compelling television narrative.
The Children’s Growing Independence
As the Owen children grow older, the family dynamic at Ravenseat is evolving. The eldest, Raven, is in her mid-twenties and effectively an autonomous adult. Reuben has established both a farming and business career and a television profile of his own. Miles, Edith, and Violet are in their later teens and early twenties, developing their own interests and independence while remaining connected to the farm. The younger children — Sidney, Annas, Clemmy, and Nancy — are still at the stage of daily farm involvement and school life that characterised the early Our Yorkshire Farm years.
Amanda has described the changing family dynamic with characteristic acceptance of complexity: “The dynamics are forever changing. I have no idea who is head of operations, who deals with Human Resources or even quite where everyone is at. What I do know is that it’s a fantastic team where you can be independent, aim high and do your own thing but equally can be supported, nurtured and protected when needed.” This description — of a family as a complex, self-organising system rather than a hierarchy — reflects both the practical realities of managing nine children of widely different ages and Amanda’s fundamental respect for each child’s growing individuality and capability.
The broader significance of the Owen family’s continued presence on television is not simply commercial or entertainment-based but reflects something genuine about the public appetite for authentic, grounded stories of family life and rural endeavour. In an era of heavily produced reality television that emphasises conflict, drama, and the performance of emotion, the Owens offer something genuinely different: a family navigating real complexity — separation, changed relationships, children growing up, a farm that demands constant attention — with honesty, warmth, and evident mutual care. The fact that Amanda Owen remains one of the most warmly regarded television personalities in Britain in 2026, having passed through a marriage breakdown, a controversial subsequent relationship, and multiple professional transitions, reflects the depth of audience connection she has built over years of authentic public communication.
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