Many fans know her as the Yorkshire Shepherdess but things could have been different for Amanda Owen. She rose to fame through the hit TV show Our Yorkshire Farm which followed her and her family's life on Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
However, the programme wasn't how Amanda first started to gain attention. The 48-year-old first gained attention through her Twitter feed as 'The Yorkshire Shepherdess', and has subsequently written five books. In August 2017 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and two years later she was the subject of Radio 4's On Your Farm.
But her actual first TV appearance came several years before she and her then-husband Clive became stars of Channel 5. Amanda and her family, which at that point included only five of her now-nine children first appeared as regulars on Adrian Edmondson's 2011 ITV documentary series The Dales alongside the Reverend Ann Chapman, the vicar of four small churches, and a number of other people living in the Yorkshire Dales.
