A white Xmas? I'd rather it rained, so I could just drive over to Jess and not have to get the tractor out...

Even being snowed in last year did not keep Reuben Owen and his girlfriend Jess Ellwood apart, but this Christmas TV's favourite young farming couple are hoping for rain rather than a wall of snow.

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Proudly declaring they have not spent a day apart since they met at a Young Farmers' convention last year, before going public with their romance last November, Reuben, 22, says: “It snows heavily where we are, and we got snowed in last year.

“I've seen Jess every single day since we got together. And it was going to be the only day I hadn't seen her. But I wasn't going to let a little snow stop me from getting to my love.

“It took me a long time to get the tractor started and even longer to dig myself out of the snow but I did it. I dug myself out of the snow to get to Jess. And I'd do it again a thousand times.”

While his wildly romantic gesture will impress fans who tune in to Channel 5's Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales, he is not sentimental about spending a white Christmas with Jess, 21, saying: “I'd rather it rained, so I could just drive over.”

Reuben runs a machinery business at Ravenseat, a 2,000-acre family farm in Swaledale, North Yorks, and rose to fame in Our Yorkshire Farm, starring with his parents, Amanda and Clive, and his siblings, Raven, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine and Nancy.

His mum and dad split up in 2022, but now Reuben's own show is a massive hit, the Christmas special of which, airing on December 16, will show everyone coming together to convert an old barn on Jess's family farm for a festive feast.