Reuben Owen and his girlfriend are returning to screens for a brand new collection of Life within the Dales.
Reuben Owen is courting Jessica (Picture: Instagram)
Reuben Owen and his girlfriend Jessica Ellwood have returned to screens for a brand new collection of Life In The Dales.
The Channel 5 programme follows the younger farmer by way of the highs and lows of working a equipment enterprise at Ravenseat, a 2,000-acre household farm in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, after studying the commerce from his dad and mom, Clive and Amanda Owen.
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Reuben, 22, rose to fame alongside them in Our Yorkshire Farm, earlier than Life In The Dales kicked off in 2024.
In addition to sharing his agricultural journey on the programme, he usually offers viewers a glimpse into this non-public life with accomplice Jessica.
Jessica can also be a farmer, who works on her dad and mom’ Brough Fort farm, which is residence to tons of of animals.
The couple received collectively in October 2024, and have since shared some loved-up posts on social media, marking Valentine’s Day, their anniversary and spending Christmas collectively.
They met at a younger farmers’ conference, with Jessica later sharing on the present: “Ever since we first met, we simply clicked. I believe it is as a result of I am from a farming background, so’s Reuben.”
She added: “I simply love him to bits. Love his household, get on nice with them.”
Reuben in the meantime informed OK journal: “It took me some time to ask her out, I wasn’t that courageous however I simply requested her one night time, we went out for some tea one night time and I’d misplaced my pockets and he or she needed to pay for my dinner!”
Life within the Dales has returned with a brand new collection (Picture: 5)
In a earlier interview with The Mirror, Reuben shared how his household reacted to Jessica, saying: “Mum and Jess take to each other, they speak about sheep collectively, all of them approve and so they all get alongside very well.”
The couple are additionally planning on transferring in collectively quickly, as he added: “We’re simply ready for one thing to come back up. I’ve received to attempt to get a pleasant place, get a little bit of a farm someplace someday.
“It might be ideally suited to have a farm the place I can park my diggers and she will have her sheep and cows.”
When probed on the prospect of beginning a household, referencing his dad and mom’ giant brood, he quipped: “I do not assume I fancy 9 of them, I do not fancy 9 in any respect. We’ll have to attend and see.”
The couple met at a Younger Farmers’ Conference (Picture: Instagram)
In a 2023 article for Farmers Guardian, Jessica, then 18, spoke about rising up on Brough Fort Farm in Cumbria.
She stated: “Farming is in my blood: I grew up on Brough Fort Farm and bear in mind serving to my mum and pa within the fields from a younger age. Since then, it’s all I’ve ever wished to do.
“I’m now working full-time alongside my dad and taking up extra tasks for various elements of the farm, which is admittedly thrilling. I’ve at all times liked working with animals too, significantly cows and sheep; they’ve their very own personalities and I really feel like I do know all of them. As a result of I’ve grown up with them since I used to be little or no, I see all of the animals as a part of our household.”
Reuben Owen: Life within the Dales airs Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 5.
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