TV favourite Matt Baker has opened up about the frightening moment he knew his family was "in trouble" after an incident at their family farm. His 77 year old mum, Janice, suffered a terrible accident in 2021 when she got knocked over by sheep, resulting in a broken leg. At the time, Matt had just left The One Show and was setting up his own TV production company with thoughts of stepping back from the camera to embrace behind-the-scenes roles.
But life had other plans. Amid developing ideas for his new venture, an alarming phone call from his dad relayed the dreadful news about his mother's mishap and her urgent need for hospital care. Matt swiftly coordinated efforts to round up the family and farm animals, hurrying back to the family estate in the North.
Reflecting on the daunting episode, he explained: "My mum is the shepherdess, I mean there's no doubt about it, she runs the show up there and I knew straight away that we were going to be in trouble. We kind of, as a family, had been waiting for something like this to happen, because it was only ever going to be some farming thing or the sheep that were ever going to tell mum that things needed to change." He continued: "Because I knew the workload that was up there, I felt I had no choice and thought let's just get back up there.
We put all the animals in the trailer and headed up north. I just started to do these changes because we needed to change the sheep that we had." While discussing his farmhouse chaos with TV bos.