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Countryfile’s OnlyFans star says she has been inundated with explicit requests after being branded UK’s ‘sexiest farmer’
SIX minutes and 30 seconds was all it took to turn Becky Houze into a star.
The 29-year-old farmer appeared in a short slot on BBC1’s Countryfile last Sunday and social media went crazy.
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Fans of the hit series — not normally known for its glamour — were thrilled to see the beauty with blonde hair light up their screens.
One posted: “Becky is a stunner! She doesn’t look like your typical farmer, does she?”
Another wrote: “Why can’t all farmers look like that? She’s a rocket, my goodness me.”
Becky was in a Bristol bar on a hen-do at the time and was oblivious to the outpouring of appreciation until the following morning.
The Jersey girl says: “I turned on my phone to see I had thousands of new followers on Instagram.”
Gorgeous, hard-working and eloquent, when asked what she thinks of being dubbed “Britain’s sexiest farmer” Becky is suddenly stuck for words. “Um, well,” she starts: “I don’t think . . . I’m not at all . . . You’ll make me blush!”
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And she reckons her new admirers might think differently if they were to see her with her hand up a cow’s bum or covered in muck.
She says: “When it’s pouring with rain and the machinery has broken down, there’s poo in your hair and oil on your face or you’ve got your hand up a cow’s bum, it isn’t glamorous.”
Becky already had quite the following, even before Countryfile paid a visit to her Channel Islands dairy farm.
She started posting pictures on Instagram of her nights out and holidays mixed in with some of her working life with her pedigree cows, amassing nearly 75,000 followers.
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And she swiftly realised the animals were getting the most likes.
Becky, who goes by the handle Jersey Cow Girl, says: “I see my life on the farm as very ordinary, but to other people that can be very interesting.”
Such is the popularity of her posts that Becky joined subscription site OnlyFans, where she shows herself both in wellies in her day job and dolled up in her spare time.
Known as a site where models post raunchy images, joining the service caused a stir in her small community.
Yet Becky insists she won’t be stripping off, despite some cheeky requests.
“I’ve been asked if I’m going to post more explicit pictures,” she says.
“But I’m going to stay true to myself. I get questions about what I’ve been up to on the farm, and after Countryfile I was even asked what fly spray I use.”
The farmer doesn’t only get saucy requests, she also has a bevy of proposals pouring into her DMs.
She said: “Since I had 5,000 followers I’ve had some people asking if I’m single and saying I’d make their ideal wife.
“I never get anything too sleazy, I think people know I’m not the kind of girl to tolerate it.”
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She has also appeared in an eight-part series on the OnlyFans free streaming service, OFTV, in which she taught a group of female influencers — including ex-Love Islander Danielle Sellers — how to farm.
Becky says: “I was expecting them to be all glamorous and screaming — and we did hear some screams — but I was surprised by how competitive they were.
“In the last episode there’s a speed challenge and one of the girls stuck her hands into cow poo to get the job done quicker.
“She should have used a fork, but it was very amusing to watch.”
Farming is having a bit of a moment. Amanda Owen, the Yorkshire Shepherdess, has her own successful TV show and books, while Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson has proved a big hit chronicling his often hilarious attempts at running his Cotswolds farm.
Becky says: “Jeremy Clarkson has done more for the industry than he probably even realises.
“The thing with promoting agriculture is that half the time your audience is other dairy farmers. You need to branch out to reach the rest of the population.
“There are people in this world so distant from farming they have no idea about where their food comes from. They don’t know if carrots are grown in the ground or on a tree. People love Clarkson as a personality. Us farmers love the programme, even if we are watching it thinking, ‘Oh no, Jeremy!’ half the time.”
Becky wasn’t always destined for a career in farming.
As a youngster she did every kind of athletics and dancing going and her dad, Paul, 66, a third generation farmer, did not put any pressure on her to take on the family business.
There was some financial incentive to occasionally helping out though.
She says: “When I was 17 I didn’t have any money to buy my Nissan Micra. It was £700. I worked 70 hours a week for six weeks before Dad agreed that I had paid it off.”
She jokes: “It’s tough love in our family.”
For many of her classmates, the only option on the island was to study hairdressing or finance. Becky and her circle of friends opted to move to the mainland for university where she studied agriculture.
She says: “There aren’t many farmers here in Jersey, especially not my age. My friends thought it made sense for me, but it certainly wouldn’t have been their choice.”
After she graduated in 2015 it was straight in at the deep end, taking over her family farm as well as temporarily looking after an organic farm to help out another local dairy family, milking around 230 cows every day.
Her dad is now retired but “still has his foot in the door” checking what Becky is up to. Her mum, Annette, 58, is a retired nurse.
Becky says: “Mum never worked on the farm, she knew better! The first time she was asked to help out, she said no and she was never relied on again.
“She said that’s the mistake most farmers’ wives make.”
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So what do they think of all the attention their daughter is getting?
Becky says: “My mum’s my biggest fan. My dad is a bit oblivious when it comes to social media.
“He would always tell me I could be doing better things with my time than posting on Instagram. Now it’s been successful, he is definitely proud.”
Becky’s brother, Sam, 31, works as a mechanic — and won’t fix farming machinery because it’s “too mucky”.
Running her farm means getting up at 5.30am every day for milking, cleaning the cattle sheds, feeding, watering and taking the herd out to graze.
And that’s 365 days a year, including Christmas Day.
There is also tending to the land and planting, growing and harvesting wheat, maize, grass and barley.
But when she manages to get a break, she loves nothing more than putting on her gladrags.
She says: “I call myself an urban farmer because we’re only five minutes away from the island’s capital, Saint Helier.
“I love my job and love farming, but I’m all about a good social life as well.
“If that means going for a pamper every now and again with the girls, or occasionally getting my eyelashes done, I’m always keen. I love to party.
“I’ve always made sure I don’t get consumed by the farm and that I keep my friendship circle and my sports. I maintain a balance.”
Times have changed for women in farming since her grandmother’s day, when she described herself as a “farmer’s wife”.
Becky says: “She was picking the daffodils and grading potatoes.
“She was very much a farmer and it struck me recently that she didn’t describe herself as one.
“Nowadays you see more women doing what you might class as the more masculine jobs, like driving the tractors or having a management role.
“That definitely comes from women promoting themselves and saying, ‘Look, we’re equal’.”
But there are still some obstacles to overcome, particularly old-fashioned attitudes. She laughs about the time an older male farmer asked her and a male friend about their love lives.
She recalls: “My friend said he was dating a doctor, and when I said I was single, he told me I needed to find myself ‘a good farmer’. He meant no harm, but I thought, ‘Why wouldn’t I find a doctor, too?’.”
As Becky says herself, she has a tough skin and nothing is going to get in the way of her success.
She says: “As a woman, you do have to work harder to prove yourself.
"There is the opinion that you’re not as strong as a man.
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“We have machinery and kit now. Yes, you’ve got to be able to work a chainsaw and a strimmer, but it’s not all about being strong.
“It’s about thinking smart. It’s about being bold and ballsy.”
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