Five years on from the first hit season, host Natalie visits our favourite farmers.
Four weddings, two engagements, two babies – and two more on the way – is proof that Nine’s hit series The Farmer Wants A Wife sows seeds of love every season. And when the show sent host Natalie Gruzlewski around the country to catch up with the stars, she found those seeds have grown fruit of their own!
Jenny Blake, the first female farmer, has been lucky in love. When the series ended so did Jenny’s relationship with on-screen suitor Owen… but her story has a happy ending.
Jenny was asked to think of a farmer friend she could recommend for the next season, and when she thought of one – her mate of 10 years, Mark Geppert – she fell for him herself! They married just eight months later.
“When someone comes along like this you don’t muck around,” Mark says. Now Jenny and Mark are parents to Olive, born 10 months after they married in 2009. “When there’s just two people it’s one thing, but when you have a family it’s a different thing altogether. It completes the circle,” Mark says, and Jenny is equally thrilled.
“I give Olive a million kisses a day,” she says on The Farmer Wants A Wife: A Reunion Special, which airs Wednesday, April 6 at 8.30pm. “Being a mum is the best job ever. I love it. I just wake up thinking I’m the luckiest girl in the world.” Proud parents Jenny and Mark aren’t alone in hearing the pitter-patter of tiny farmer feet.
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