New Idea have done a good special on Farmer Wants A Wife and has given updates on many of the farmers, and their partners.

Farmer Jenny

First up is female farmer Jenny Blake who is rumoured to be expecting her first baby.

New Idea said:
After marrying fellow farmer Mark Geppert last year following a whirlwind romance, it seems her dreams of a family might finally be coming true.

Jenny giggles to New Idea: ‘I can’t say anything yet’

But there’s a buzz among the Farmers about Jenny’s news. Andrew hall, who appeared in the show and went to Jenny’s wedding told the Adelaide Advertiser  he’d caught up with Jenny’s best friend – but was tight lipped about the pregnancy.

“I’ve no comment – yet,” he said.

Jenny,34, is understood to be having her baby in September, but is hesitant to discuss it at this stage.

Farmer Ben

Farmer Ben Honey is now engaged to Kate Morgan a girl mutual friends set him up with.

He told New Idea:

“Kate was absolutely stunning,” Ben 32, tells New Idea. “I thought:’This can’t be the girl they said was for me, can it?” I thought the girl they wanted to set me up with must have been in the toilets!”

A little over a year later they were engaged.

Kate who is a primary school teacher is 23.

She said “I’d never lived on property before and it was extremely different from what I’m used to. But I love it now – to have all this space is amazing.

Ben proposed while they were in Queensland for his cousins 21st birthday party in January. They plan to wed later in the year.

Farmer Rob & Jo

They will be getting married in the next few weeks. Expect to see an article in one of the weekly women’s mags.

They will wed in Dunkeld – half way between Rob’s 890-hectare property outside Mount Gambier and Jo’s home city of Melbourne. About 100 people are expected to attend the black tie nuptials.

Farmer Howie

Season Two Howie Webster is still wanting to meet his perfect match. New Idea reminds us that he rejected his budding ‘wives’ on the hit TV series because there were no sparks and he did not want to waste their time.

He told New Idea:

“It does get lonely out here, but I’d rather be alone and relatively happy than be in an unhappy relationship,”

“Some people say I’m too fussy, but as you get older, you know what you want and what you don’t want. My time on the show only reinforced my views and ideas of what I want and I’m not that keen to waste my time.”

Farmer Damien

Good news he is now living with the love Racheal Peynenborg. Damien Atkins the gentle farmer from Tasmania says they are not yet engaged because he spent all his money on a new tractor.

He told New Idea:

“There’s nothing to report yet, but we have bought a do. That’s a big step for me. It’s the most commited I’ve ever been,” he laughs.

“It doesn’t seem like we’ve been together for 18 months,’ he says. ‘We get along well. She helps on the farm by feeding a few calves and poking around in the vegie patch, but I didn’t bring her over to be slave labour.

Farmer Ralph

New Idea reports he has just broken up with Siri. Before filming had ended on his season in 2008 25-year-old horse trainer Siri Spranz had moved in.

But last week she moved out with Ralph saying he was not ready for marriage at this stage.

He told New Idea:

“I felt the spark was there, and it certainly made sense at the time,”

“Siri’s a great girl and really ticks all the boxes, but in the end I realised I was not ready for that sort of commitment.”

They broke up over lunch.

“There were no heated arguements, but it was very emotional watching her pack her things and move out,” he says. “It doesn’t feel real at the moment, and I stil don’t believe it’s over.”

Andrew Gill (one of Farmer Jenny’s Guys)

Andrew the explosive expert was overlooked by Jenny as she picked Owen, however good news he has now hooked up with Cass Skapin a woman who went on the  show to meet a farmer. She was rejected by Farmer Ralph. But these two are now living together in Rockhampton.

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The Courier Mail following a story in Woman’s Day is confirming rumours that Farmer Wants A Wife host, and Channel Nine fave Natalie Gruzlewski has separated from her husband.

She seems to be taking it in her stride and will be heading to Sydney to share weather presenter duties with Jaynie Seal. She will be hosting Season Five of the popular Farmer Wants A Wife, however an air date is yet to be announced.

In happier news season two hottie and dairy farmer from Jambaroo, Ben Honey, is engaged to local Wollongong girl Kate Morgan (I wonder if she is any relation to the infamous Beth Morgan?). The Illawarra Mercury states the couple are wanting to keep details of their upcoming nuptials private. Or does this mean they will sell the day to a Woman’s magazine?

On the show he went for Sydney nanny Sarah Walton, but even though she moved to the farm they broke up as she found life on the land difficult.

Also in the latest edition of TV Week, in an interview with Natalie where she states there are some changes to the format.

These include:

• The women will not find out where their farmer is located in Australia until they meet them for the first time on the farm;
• They are doing away with the group dates this year and heading straight to the farm. I wonder if this means the guys have to pick the three girls from the speed dating. That is a big call to make when only meeting them for five minutes.
• There will be a female farmer this season named  Becky; and Natalie also revealed her favourite couple is Chris and Kim from Season One.

If you want to see more of this season’s farmers go here.

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It is all happening with some of the previous contestants from Farmer Wants A Wife who have found love both on and off the show.

Recently Season 1 contestant Brad married his long time girlfriend Samara. For those who need their memories jogged, Brad had met Samara via dating website RSVP between him accepting to go on the show and when filming started. To say his two ladies he took to the farm felt duped is an understatement. They had an intimate wedding at Swan Hill. (Source: Herald Sun)

Farmer Jenny has also recently gotten married in a whirlwind relationship to another farmer from Cobar.  She had known him for awhile and was trying to recruit him to be a farmer on the show, when she realised she wanted him for herself. They were engaged after eight weeks – romantic or foolhardy – you decide, anyway they have now tied the knot.

However in other loved up Farmer news, Damian Atkins from Season 3 and Rachael Peynenborg have moved into together on his property in Tasmania.

TV Week says:

Rachael who met him on the show plans on moving to Tasmainia at Christmas and Damian’s impressed with how well his city girlfriend has adapted to life in rural Tassi, where they spend most of their time at Damian’s farm, in Caveside.

“I thought winter would have tested her out, but she seemed to handle it OK,” he says. “She bought a puffa jacket and a beanie, so she fit in quite well with the locals! ”

“She helps out a bit. She gives me a hard time, and thinks that I leave all the tricky jobs till the weekend so she can help out when she gets here… which probably not entirely untrue!” he adds. “She’s handy at drenching sheep, so she’s been good.”

“It sounds like The Farmer Wants a Farmhand, doesn’t it?” he adds with a laugh.

Damian also admits the pair have plenty of romantic moments together. “We just enjoy each other’s company,” he says. “We’re having a really good time with each other.”

So if you are sick of speeddating and the internet dating sites, you still have until 7 December to check out the current batch of farmers and apply to go on a date with them at the official site here

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True love has prevailed again on the dating reality series Farmer Wants A Wife.

Season four love birds Brad Crane and Stacie Marmion are now engaged.

Farmer Brad Crane, from the NSW country town of Lithgow, will tie the knot with Stacie Marmion after popping the question over takeaway fish and chips.

The pair fell in love on national television and have enjoyed a whirlwind six-month romance.

Mr Crane, a cattle farmer, told Woman’s Day magazine he planned to propose during a romantic island holiday, but found he could not wait any longer.

He asked Marmion to marry him during a meal of fish and chips and a game of charades on a beach on the NSW south coast, he said.

“Her lips started quivering and luckily she said yes,” Mr Crane said.

“To be honest, I went on the show for a bit of fun.

“I didn’t think there would be much chance of finding a bloody wife on national television. I still can’t believe my luck.”

For anyone watching the show you could see that they were a great couple who were madly in love from just about the moment they met. And apparently even when the show was on she used to sneak up to his bedroom  each night.

“She used to sneak up,” Brad said “That’s when you could actually sit down and talk and be yourself – the camera team had no idea.”

The wedding will be next year with 160 guests, and the couple plan to drive around Australia for four months in a romantic quest to find a new farm property where they can start building their life together.

Other matches from different series are Chris Newsome and Kim Tierney who married in 2007 and had their first child this year.

Melbourne photographer Jo Fincham and her Mt Gambier farmer Rob Hodge, from the show’s second series, are also engaged.

Source (Nine MSN and Women’s Day Magazine)

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This week’s gossip mags are full of reality TV news, with two stars of the popular genre on covers. The former Biggest Loser host shows off her new figure on the front of New Idea. I suspect there is a bit of photoshopping going on but hey I don’t have a problem with that.

Also Who Mag did a huge article on The Biggest Contestants and if they had put back on the weight. This year’s runner up Tiffany looks stunning on the cover. It is also good to read the the majority of contestants have kept the weight off from this season and previous seasons.

Also Women’s Day had a raft of reality TV stories with former Big Brother winner Reggie Bird talking about being a mother and being blind. Apparently she has some degenerative retina disease. Full story here..

Also Chris and Kim from the first series of Farmer Wants A Wife is showing off their new born baby Charlotte. I thought it ironic that the photo still made them sitting in front of cows, even when they are living in Geelong now and Chris is a refrigerator apprentice. An exerpt from the article here..

Also there is a small article about Farmer Jenny and her new engagement, apparently they are getting married very soon. It has been a whirlwind romance. Again an exerpt from the article is here.

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A lil_missy has been commenting on my blog and basically saying Gavin is a bit of a cad, well it looks like she could be right. In this newspaper article Rebecca states she learnt about their break up through TV Week, not quite as bad as Matt Damon breaking up with Minnie Driver on Oprah, but close.

The article says:

Rebecca Davis, a 45″‘year”‘old commercial banking assistant manager, admits “my heart is broken” after making the shocking discovery of a TV Week interview with former boyfriend Gavin Pahlke.

Gavin is reported in the article as saying the pair were at a “standstill/stop/don’t know” phase.

It was news to Rebecca.

“I can’t quite believe it. I read all the stories saying we were broken up, but Gavin just kept saying that he hated the media and I thought he wanted to lay low,” Rebecca said.

“Yes, I loved him. Yes, my heart is broken,” she said, her eyes filling with tears.

Rebecca said the couple spent every weekend of three months together at Gavin’s sugar cane farm in Norwell, 33 kilometres north of the Gold Coast.

“He simply said that he did not want to break up with me and that he had to sort out things in his life. He said he was afraid of getting hurt or hurting me,” Rebecca said.

“Things are very black and white for me. You either want to be with someone or you don’t and that’s when I decided that this was not the kind of relationship that I wanted to be in anymore.”

She also says Phil and Jenny have broken up, but we don’t know the reason why.

So that leaves Scott and Clare, and Brad and Stacie who are still together.

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This week’s TV Week reveals that Nathan and Heidi are now over. To be honest I am not really surprised. The article states that Nathan (the bullriding cowboy) knew the relationship was “in big trouble” about three days after filming the finale – then two weeks later, it was all over.

“It took very little time – for me anyway – to figure out it wasn’t really going to go anywhere,” he said.

He says Heidi didn’t take the break-up well. “I’m just giving her a bit of space and hoping things calm down.”

But thanks to the show, Nate’s not short of options. “I’ve had heaps of girls write letters and send photos. One, in particular, has sparked my interest.”

The article also revealed that Gavin and Rebecca ARE NOT seeing each other.

He said Rebecca and him went out “a fair bit” after the finale was filmed in June, but they’re now at a “standstill/stop/don’t know”, because of his uncertainty about getting back into a serious relationship.

“I spoke to a few of my mates and they said they all had the same thing – that if you’ve been single for a while and somebody comes into your life, it gets a bit scary,” he explains. “Maybe, when you’ve been hurt again or hurt somebody else. But hopefully I can work through the issues and something could still happen. In life, we don’t always get the fairytale ending we’re looking for.”

Better news for Farmer Gavin’s son Steve has hooked up with one of his “girls” friends. He stayed in contact with Leah one of the five girls he took on the group date, and it is one of her friends he is seeing.

“I’ve been seeing her for a couple of weeks,” he reveals. “It’s pretty good.”

Russell and Laura have decided to only be friends as well.

TV Week also gave and update on what some of the girls are up to:

• Natalee is now dating an engineer;
• Nate’s girls Leonie and Carmen are both happy in new relationships;
• Single mum Sian, who walked away from Steve’s farm, has reconnected with a guy from high school;
• Gavin’s woman Kaye has met a new man through dating  site RSVP, and
• Brad’s girl Aimme is buying her own “mini-farm”.

So Brad and Stacie, Phil and Jenny, and Scott and Clare are still going strong.

In other Farmer Wants A Wife news the only female farmer of the four series is now engaged, but not to a man she met on the show. She is engaged to a farmer from Cobar.

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Well Season 4 of Farmer Wants A Wife Has Finished and it would appear to be the most successful season yet.

But what are the current batch of farmer’s up to?

Well Daily Telegraph says Russell is still single (not surprised), and that Gavin and Rebecca have split.

The TV Week also gives an update as well. They said Brad and Stacie are madly in love and are talking marriage and babies. But first they are going to travel around Australia together. They see each other every night, and he plans on marry her. “I’ll marry her,” Brad vows. “I haven’t proposed, but we’re going around Australia for four months at the beginning of next year. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and she has too, so I said, ‘Let’s do it’.

“I’m not a romantic person, but there’ll be a time and a place where I’ll just think,’it’s perfect,’ and I’ll ask her to marry me,”.

Phil and Jenni are still going strong and they have talked about marriage, and they have said when the times come they will elope. Jenni is still living in Melbourne but they are managing to see each other three or four days a week.

“She comes up to the farm, we’ve been up to Mount Buller, I’ve been down to Melbourne…whatever it is, every weekend, you make it a long weekend,” the happy farmer says.

Phil says going on the show has changed him, “I have never opened up this much with a girlfriend in my life. The show has really put me on the spot. It’s been great. I feel like I’ve know Jen for over six years. It’s all good.”

Scott and Clare are still together, and she is keen to move to the farm. “I love being on his farms,” says the marketing co-ordinator. “I really hope I can move there. I grew up on farms and I’ve craed that laid-back country life for a long time.”

Scott says he wants Clare to wait six months before she moves to the farm. “I think you should get to know each other a bit before you drop that on each other.”

The Daily Telegraph article said Heidi and Nate are still together.

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Gosh was there anyone on Season 4 of Farmer Wants A Wife that didn’t fall in love?  It appears Steven was the only real loser, but I am not convinced that Russell has found true love with Laura.

Kaye dodged a bullet when it came to Gavin, she was far to vibrant for him and would have only lasted a month on the farm doing the domestic chores. But to be fair I think Gavin picked the right woman in Rebecca, they are a good match. Loved her son Freedom what a great kid. On the couch in the Hunter they both confessed they were in love. They will be engaged within the year.

Scott ended up with Clare, again a great choice as she is from the area and if this week’s TV Week is true she is happy to move back there. However I was not convinced by their body language on the couch, compared to some of the other couples.

Nate managed to pick two psycho chicks, Heidi and Leonie, they could barely speak to each other. He ended up picking Heidi, and it seems a good choice as they appear madly in love. Leonie will probably carry the scars of not being chosen for quite sometime and become even more bitter and twisted.

Love Brad but he seriously needs to know how to cook, all he seems to do is reheat meat pies. Though I must confess I teared up when he went and got the lovely Stacie from the pub. I did like all the dopey looks on the old male drinkers faces, who seemed completely non-plussed about the TV cameras.

I loved at the reunion that he confessed to falling in love at first sight. I hope they put this pair on the Dairy Farmer ads next season.

Natalee showed her displeasure that Russel picked Laura to go to the wedding, and was pretty off hand wiht him in fact at their ‘romantic’ dinner she looked bored. However he ended up picking her for the city break, but the big twist was that Laura was a the reunion in the Hunter. I am not convinced that he will end up with her for the long term.

Phil and Jenny also appeared to have found love, and appear well matched. Apparently he is loaded as they keep on going on about it, it would seem he has been worried in the past that women wanted his money rather than him. I wish I had those worries.

Steven who had struck out with Elissa and Sian, ended up knocking on Dani’s door, but that fell flat. Somehow I am not surprised. He reckons she was not happy when he told Dani that he just wanted to be mates.

All in all a successful season of the dating show, and they are already auditioning for the next season.

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Thank God, they are going to do a double episode next week to finish this up. If they had just had the whose door is he going to knock on, it would be boring, as I can guess most of them. Though I am sure they have edited so there are a few surprises in store.

So how did the Farmers go toinght with there last few days on the farm with their girls.

Farmer Scott -

I am still not seeing Scott’s appeal, he does look like a ‘nice’ boy, but he is not great talent on camera. On this episode he took them to the races, and would you believe it they both just happened to have a fascinator in their luggage. Something I always pack when I go away.

Clare who has been playing second fiddle to leggy Olivia finally played her trump card tonight. At the races she met people she knew and it was revealed to the audience she was from around there and fit in with the milleu. And suddenly she was in the race.

Olivia who has been pretty confident up until now thinking she was the front runner and now she looked like she had been cuckolded.

The Clare/Scott scenario concluded with loud kissing beside the river which kind of  grossed me out.

Farmer Nate -

I get the feeling Leonie and Heidi see the prize as being the one Nate picks, rather then landing the farmer as their husband. It was gettign pretty tense between them.

Whilst sitting a on a bull Leonie said “I’ll leave the bull riding to my husband”, just to mind fuck a bit with Heidi’s head.

Which worked as it sent Heidi into the stratosphere with a neurotic tirade complete with tears in her eyes. Heidi seems very nervy and on edge. Maybe she is in love and is feeling anxious. I thought at one stage she had purposely fallen off the horse to get his attention. Or the producers set it up. As we didn’t actually see the fall.

However she used it to her advantage to get some comfort snogging from the Queensland cowboy.

Farmer Brad -

I am just a little bit in love with Brad, and because he has hooked up with Stacey he gets very little screen time. He had to muster up the courage to tell Brooke, who is a quality chick, that he was on with Stacey. In fact all his girls were quality, and Brooke took the whole scenario with class. She said she was glad she had made to friends.

Obviously this farmer lives closer to Mt Victoria station, than Lithgow where they said he lived. However in this week’s TV Week they have a blind item about a farmer having to move from town to his parent’s farm. The parents moved for the two weeks. It must be him as the house is just to renovated for someone his age.

Stacey and Brad are the love match of this series.

Farmer Gavin -

Now that Kaye has pissed him off, for not being a romantic, and realising he just wanted a house keeper he has set his sites on Rebecca, an assistant bank manager.  This guy is so lonely he is like a puppy and would go with any woman that would have him. I suppose it would be lonely being on the farm as there are no work mates around except for a monosyllabic son.

Rebecca date with Gav was to his local church, which she seemed to enjoy. Maybe she is really lonely as well.

Farmer Steven

This guys girls seem to be going faster than a fox taking chooks. He really wants to find a keeper, unfortunately the one he wanted, Sian, escaped last week.  Elissa said she felt there was abit of pressure for something to happen there. But chances of that are slim as apparently Kaye one of Gav’s women turned up to the farm, and he hit it off with Elissa.

Steven has got to learn that no women thinks a good date involves sticking her hand into a bag of chicken heads.

Farmer Phil-

Jenni is a determined little thing, and she wants Phil. She told Georgie she would be more affectionate to Phil if they were alone, which was code for she would shag him - I think. Seeing the writing on the wall Georgina gracefully exited the show. 

Jenni then a few days later went in for the commitment talk, saying she needed to feel valued in a relationship. I thought this indicated she read a few to many self-help books. Also there is something about Phil I cannot put my finger on. And Jenni also admitted that it was difficult to get the real Phil.

Farmer Russell -

He is a cutie and one of my favourites, and he barely got any screen time tonight. He was off to a wedding so had to pick one of the girls to take. He chose Laura to go with him to Melbourne.  Natalee looked a bit gutted.  She admitted it meant that he fancies Laura slightly more.

For Laura spending all that time with Russell would have been very advantageous. As he would have been hitting the booze, and she could have gone in for the kill. If Natalee remained on the farm for those few days she would have been really bored. Hopefully they gave her a leave pass.

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