Kelvin

Kelvin and his wife, Liz, both had different plans for their future on Fletcher’s Family Farm

Kelvin and Liz Fletcher opened up about their “most challenging year” on their farm.

During a repeat episode of Fletcher’s Family Farm, Kelvin left his wife, Liz, in shock after he sold their goats without telling her.

However, after overcoming the shock of saying goodbye to their beloved goats, Kelvin and Liz reflected on the farm’s future and where they see themselves.

As the couple gathered around a campfire with their children, Liz shared, “I think this has been our hardest year, our most challenging, but I feel like we’ve learned the most this year on our own, and I feel like we’ve come on so far in the last 12 months.”

Kelvin asked, “Would you consider yourself a farmer now?”

He added, “I think this year I feel confident to say, yeah, we’ve got a farm, we’ve got a family farm, and this is what we do. We started with just a few sheep, and now we’ve got a flock of sheep, loads of pigs, cows, feral kids.”

“The kids are the biggest animals on the farm,” Liz laughed as Kelvin continued, “It’s safe to say we’re certainly on our way to becoming farmers.”

Liz went on to ask her husband whether he was “happy with this life,” to which he said, ” Yes. I’m committed that this is the right thing for us.

“We’re absolutely on the right path. There’s no question that we just got to absolutely embrace it and be in the moment, be present.”

“Cheers to that,” Liz said before Kelvin shared his dreams of moving away from their Cheshire Farm.

He stated, “I would like a ranch in America one day.”

“I mean, I’d like to be in the Bahamas, but one step at a time,” Liz told Kelvin.

This isn’t the first time Kelvin and Liz have spoken about moving to America; during an appearance on James Martin’s Saturday Morning, one thing stopped them from pursuing their dream.

The ITV chef pointed out, “You were originally going to go to America. This was a life-changing thing you decided, and you got the visas and everything, didn’t you?”

“As two actors, we thought, you know, Kelvin had been in Emmerdale for 20 years, and we kind of wanted to try something different, and as two actors, we thought, ‘Well, why not? Let’s go to Hollywood and LA and see what happens’,” Liz explained.

“And we only had two children at the time, but unfortunately, Covid stopped that, and they actually stopped the visas. We never got the visas completed because they said, ‘There’ll be a pause on this for at least two years’.

Fletcher’s Family Farm is available to watch on ITVX.

Kelvin Fletcher will return to screens tonight with an episode from series one of Fletcher’s Family Farm.

Kelvin and Liz Fletcher were forced to make a heartbreaking decision on the farm.

Following the end of series four of the ITV reality show, which follows Kelvin Fletcher and his family as they run their farm in Cheshire, fans will be treated to a repeat episode tonight.

In episode seven, available to watch on ITVX, Kelvin and Liz faced brutal decisions, one of which left their daughter, Marnie, feeling upset.

The family decided to put their pet lamb, Aga, with the rest of the flock before sending two of their sheep to slaughter.

Kelvin reflected, “It’s the right thing for him, but a day we’ve all been dreading.”

As they walked Aga up to the top field, he went on, “Our Aga is more like a dog than a sheep, and we’ve all become very attached to the little guy.”

“I don’t want him to go,” Marnie pleaded with her parents. Kelvin then proceeded to mark Aga with a special love heart on his back before he joined the rest of the flock.

The former soap star commented, “He seems reluctant to join the flock, giving Marnie a little more time to say goodbye.”

Marnie shared her fears that her dad would send Aga to the butchers for the family to eat, but Kelvin reassured her that he was part of the family.

“She’s gutted,” Kelvin said to his wife, Liz. “She’s going to be upset, isn’t she?”

Liz shared, “We’ve had him from literally day one. The second he was born, we’ve looked after him, and it’s a success that he’s a healthy lamb, and he’s good enough and well enough to now go out in the big field.”

Kelvin noted, “Neither of us are willing to accept it just yet. He’s probably thinking, ‘I want to be back with you, Dad, back down there,’ but within a day, he’ll be happy, I hope.”

Calling to his daughter, Kelvin shouted, “Marnie, come on now, darling. We’ll come and check on him later on, okay?”

“Right, darling, come here. It was a bit tough, that wasn’t it, a bit tricky,” Kelvin said as he cuddled his daughter, who was visibly upset.

“But listen, he’s only in this field, he’s with all his friends, just like the first day at school.

“In a couple of hours, he’ll be out there running around with all his friends, and we’ll come and check on him, and I’ll do you a deal. I promise, shake hands…. that we’ll always have him.

“I’m making you a promise, you see. Like the other lambs and the other sheep, sometimes they help feed everybody. He won’t end up on our plate. I promise you that.”

“That may not have been the most profitable decision I have made today, but family comes first,” Kelvin added as they walked back to the farm.

Fletcher’s Family Farm will air tonight at 7.30pm and is also available to watch on ITVX.