Move over Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess's heartthrob son Reuben reveals how he's coping...

The thing about growing up on a farm is that it must imbue you with a 'plough on' attitude to life. Whatever else befalls you or your family, every morning there are animals to feed, fences to mend, crops to tend.

Reuben's parents, of course, are Amanda and Clive Owen whose tending of their sheep – and their human flock, of nine children – became a viral sensation and a TV phenomenon This was reality TV with heartwarming content and viewers couldn't get enough of this sometimes brutal, but often bucolic, slice of rural family life.

Amanda and Clive Owen with their children Annas, Clemmy, Raven, Sidney, Nancy, Miles, Edith, Violet and Reuben outside Ravenseat Farm While the eldest child Raven was the academic of the family , Reuben was the hands-on practical one, always taking a piece of machinery apart to see how it worked. And now the little boy we watched grow up has inherited something more tricky than the family farm. The family's fame, and popularity with viewers, seems to be resting on his shoulders.

Over the weeks, the series shows Reuben, Sarah and Tom take on a variety of projects, shifting tons of earth, clearing debris. Reuben, at the helm, is shown in entrepreneur mode. His 'flock' is a growing stable of hire-plant machinery. 'It went mad,' he laughs. 'People were saying 'don't do it like that, you will break your thumb', but I was doing it in the way I'd been shown, and it was perfectly safe.'

New directions all round then. Viewers hoping to see the rest of the Owen family in this series may be disappointed, though. While Reuben's brothers Miles and Sidney appear in the series, helping out, the rest of the clan are noticeably absent, although Reuben assures me his mum and dad are 'always around, and really supportive. They help drive diggers too, from time to time. They are both pretty good.

This is because your parents have been pragmatic, and ensured that nothing changed, for the family? 'Yes, they decided and that was that. They are happy as they are.' And the kids? Surely there must have been upset? 'They are not fussed,' he says. 'They go to whichever house they want. Everyone makes it work. Beyond that, it's not my business. All I want is for them to be happy. That is all that matters. They are happy, and that's all that counts.

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