Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan has revealed she receives approximately 500 marriage proposals a day, 12 months after leaving the show. The 25-year-old farmhand joined the series in 2025, stepping in for long-time fan favourite Kaleb Cooper while he was away. She helped Jeremy Clarkson on Diddly Squat farm during his nationwide tour.
Instant fan favourite
Despite leaving the show partway through the series, Cowan became an instant hit with viewers. The former nurse told The Telegraph that her fans frequently ask for her hand in marriage. She said: "I must get about a thousand DMs a day and probably 50 per cent are just men being like, 'I wish I could marry you'."
She added: "But it's all fun and games. The other 50 per cent are young girls seeing me farming and thinking, 'I'd like to do what she does'. And they're who I do it for."
New farming venture
Away from the farm, Cowan is in a relationship with fellow farmer James Booth, whom she met at the Belper Young Farmers Club as a teenager. She has announced plans to leave her father's land in Derbyshire to start her own 100-acre operation, which she intends to turn into a cattle-fattening business, similar to her father Eddy's, with plans for a butcher's shop on-site.
She explained: "I don't know if that's where the money is. There isn't really money anywhere. But it's what I know. We'll have Belgian Blues like here. But here we've got Aberdeen Angus, Holstein Friesians. We fatten, get them to 18 months, then off to market."
Life after the show
Cowan previously told Closer magazine about the realities of farming in Oxfordshire. She said: "Being a farmer can be quite lonely, so catching up with friends is important. Most of the time at work, I'm on my own on the tractor for around 12 hours. It does get lonely, so I speak to my friends who are in the same situation."
She also revealed how her time on the show derailed her nursing career. She said: "I was being recognised by patients, and you've got to be professional as a nurse. You could be at someone's house for a really serious reason, and someone says, 'I saw you on the telly', making it hard to be professional. I was starting to get deals coming in. I couldn't take any more annual leave, and I was turning down crazy, big opportunities. I was like, this isn't working anymore."
