Emmerdale star Kelvin Fletcher has been branded 'sick' after serving his family their own reared lamb for dinner.The 38-year-old actor, who portrayed Andy Sugden on the ITV soap, is currently starring in his own BBC reality series, Kelvin Fletcher's Big Farming Adventure.The show sees the Strictly Come Dancing winner and his family adjust to life running their own 120-acre farm in the Peak District with zero farming experience.Tuesday's episode saw Kelvin take one of his own lambs to the slaughterhouse before visiting the butcher and bringing home the lamb's leg to serve to his family for dinner, leaving some viewers aghast.Serving the lamb up to his family, including his five-year-old daughter Marnie, Kelvin said: "What do you think?
Can you believe that was your lamb?"Marnie replied: "What happened to his head?"In response, Kelvin said: "Well the butcher kept his head and kept his legs and some other bits and I've just kept one leg for us."Posting to Twitter, viewers of the show deemed Kelvin's actions "completely inappropriate" and "sick".One disgusted viewer wrote: 'The taking of the lamb to the slaughterhouse was completely inappropriate.
I don't understand how Kelvin and Liz could sit there enjoying eating the lamb they've reared for months and is now on the table."Another commented: "Took him off to slaughter, then ate him..
how could anyone do that to a lamb you have looked after."Referencing the channel's earlier Panaroma programme, a third said: "So we've gone from a documentary highlighting the cruelty of the animal industry, to seeing an actor come farmer, slaughter & eat a lamb he raised.
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