“Dad rang up and said ‘Mum’s had a nasty accident down in the sheep pens’ and that was it,” the former One Show host says. They documented how they transformed the farm along with the ups and downs of farm life, for a new More4 show, Our Life in the Dales. His 65-year-old mum Janice, a shepherdess, needed knee replacement surgery after the freak accident last July. Matt wanted to make changes to the farm so Janice could continue to run the place, but wouldn’t find things too physically demanding. “When we moved in together that’s when the sheep came, we’ve never lived together without her being with sheep too,” Matt says.

Source: Daily Mirror March 31, 2021 18:50 UTC