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Lauren Del Fabbro

Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen says screens have been her family’s ‘lifeline’

Amanda Owen at the Television and Radio Industries Club awards 2025 (Ian West/PA) - (PA Wire)

Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen says screens have been her family’s “lifeline” and that it would be “incredibly hypocritical” to ban them for her children.

The 52-year-old stars in the Channel 4 documentary series Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive And Kids, which follows her life in the countryside with her nine children as they renovate a centuries-old derelict farmhouse known as Anty John’s into a modern home.

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