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Our Yorkshire Farm’s Amanda Owen reveals jaw-dropping truth behind lost footage in ‘bleakest, most extreme’ season yet
OUR Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has revealed the jaw-dropping truth behind lost footage of the Channel 5 show.
The mother-of-nine has admitted viewers are set to watch the "bleakest, most extreme" season yet.
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Fans of the heart-warming programme have been tuning in since 2018 to watch Amanda, husband Clive and their family.
Amanda, 47, told The Sun Online: "The filming of the series presented us with new challenges over and above the usual trials that we face on our remote and isolated farm.
"The nature of the programme is that it is entirely without script or choreography and it is vitally important that as situations arise on the farm that the cameras keep rolling."
Referring to the family's return to the small screen last week, she explained: "Particularly with the first episode that was self-filmed, it is reliant on the children using the camera and sound equipment.
"There was one particular occasion whereby a camera was lost in deep snow and wasn’t found until the thaw came a few weeks later."
The episode saw Amanda and Clive working in the harsh winter weather conditions, as they searched for their lost sheep in the thick snow at the highest point of their farm.
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The pair trekked across the snow-covered Yorkshire Dales for days looking for their flock, and feared they had perished under the heavy covering.
Thankfully, the sheep were eventually found once the snow had thawed out, and the family rallied round to look after them.
Detailing an additional problem with capturing footage, Amanda pointed out: "During the winter period it was incredibly difficult to operate the cameras as conditions were so dire and my hands so cold that I couldn’t switch the cameras on and off!
"The triumph though is the end result which will take viewers to the most extreme, inaccessible and bleakest of places during the depths of winter. "
She added: "I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to make this programme and feel privileged to be able to showcase our beautiful British countryside and to take viewers alongside us as we navigate our way through the farming year!"
Tonight's episode will see the children helping to build the lambing hospital, while Amanda is seen taking her youngest to hunt for frogs, before encouraging her daughter to give it a kiss.
Our Yorkshire Farm airs Tuesdays at 9pm on Channel 5.
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