He played a farmer for 20 years in Emmerdale , but when Kelvin Fletcher bought his own 120-acre farm he knew nothing about rearing sheep, pigs, goats or alpacas.
With his wife, actress Liz Marsland, and their four young children – Marnie, six, Milo, four, and 17-month-old twins Mateusz and Maximus – Kelvin has started a new life in the Peak District.Their adventures are being filmed for their new ITV1 show Fletcher’s Family Farm .
They’ve had their share of challenges over the last two years – but they couldn’t be happier. “We’ve really been on a journey,” Kelvin says. “We’re not experts by any stretch, but we’re really taking this seriously and we’re enjoying it.” Even though his Emmerdale character Andy was often seen in muddy overalls lugging bales of hay, Kelvin says the show taught him nothing about farm life. “I wish it did,” he says. “I once said that what I know about farming you could write on the back of a stamp.
I used to love filming those scenes but very rarely were the scenes about farming.The irony is that I played a farmer for 20 years and pretended to be one, and now I’m doing that.
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