Amanda and Clive Owen, the stars of Channel 5’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Our Yorkshire Farm, announced their separation two years ago.
Mr Owen, a farmer who married the 49-year-old former model in 2000, said last year that he had “a massive part to play” in their marriage ending after he “handled it badly” when the show started to take off.
The pair have now described how Mr Owen’s growing jealousy and depression “played a part” in their split.
Mr Owen described how his insecurities mounted as the Yorkshire Shepherdess’s fame grew, admitting it was “especially hard” knowing she “would be going out all dressed up to launches and events and meeting other people”.
He revealed that he “resented her success” and how she “got paid more for talking about sheep than I ever could farming sheep”.
“If I’m honest about it, I didn’t want to accept that I was no longer the breadwinner for our family,” Mr Owen told the Daily Mail.
It might no longer be “Ugg bring back mammoth steak!” but the issue is still there.
I essentially retired at 45. I do bits and bobs and obviously I earned plenty in the past, but my wife is therefore our main earner from her job in private equity. She goes out to the occasional awards dinner or client meeting and I go to the pub. I fucking love it.
Interested:
I’m basically the same. I retired in my 50s, but my wife is a good deal younger. I do get occasional twinges of “I wish I could be doing more”, but then I look back at what work was like, pour another coffee, and select a good book. Life is good.
At least he can console himself with his massive part.
One look at his handsome wife should have allayed his fears.
One look at his handsome wife should have allayed his fears.
But was she getting allayed elsewhere?
“she ‘got paid more for talking about sheep than I ever could farming sheep’.”
Damn that gender pay gap!
Essentially the plot of the 60s sitcom “Green Acres”. At least that one had competent actors in Eddie Albert and Zah Zah Gabor.
I can’t say that it would have bothered me if my wife had landed a job that paid better than mine. We’re a team, our team would have had a bigger income, would have been better off and we both could have retired sooner than we did.
Zsa Zsa, Mohave
My missus kept me for a bit in the early 2000s and then found me a job. I was eternally grateful and felt a bit guilty. Not because of emasvulation, but I believed that I owed her something.
A little later she effectively retired and had the occasional lucrative jobette doing training in something difficult. The whole process worked a treat for our relationship, because we had been drifting a bit beforehand.
Jimmers – apparently it was him who broke up their marriage. Silly boy.
Interested – my retirement options include “massive heart attack” and “eaten by pumas”.
One look at his handsome wife should have allayed his fears.
But was she getting allayed elsewhere?
Apparently with a camera man, or so my wife claims.
I had a boss who happened to be a close neighbour and over a beer he told about his first wife. Apparently she was a real stunner, could have been a model, and he thought it was great that every time they walked in to a room all heads were turned. Eventually the thought that she could have picked any of the men in the room turned to jealousy and the marriage didn’t last long.
Steve: Choose the pumas, it’s more interesting, especially for the spectators.
TG – I would be delighted to choose the puma option.
My life has been full of excitement, I would be disappointed if it ends on a whimper.
Apparently she was a real stunner, could have been a model, and he thought it was great that every time they walked in to a room all heads were turned. Eventually the thought that she could have picked any of the men in the room turned to jealousy and the marriage didn’t last long.
What happens when you buy your women. After a time it occurs you may only be renting.
Trouble with very attractive people is they don’t need attractive personalities & often don’t acquire them. They’ll get attention whatever.
@BiS
“She’s not yours, it’s just your turn.”
Jealousy seems like a small soul thing. It’s such an infantile emotion, you wonder how people get to their middle age without shedding it in the process of dealing with all the blows and bullshit adult life deals you from time to time. They are true NPCs, they never learn.
She is a hoor.
And she has managed to make him think her hooring is his fault.
Poor bloke.