Kelvin Fletcher on life-changing decision to sell up | UK News
Kelvin and Liz Fletcher had plans to transfer to America (Image: (Image: ITV))
Kelvin Fletcher and his spouse, Liz, once harboured ambitions of relocating their lives to America. During a repeat visitor spot on James Martin’s cookery programme, which aired today, the pair revealed that working a farm had never featured in their authentic plans.
When James supplied his congratulations on their new sequence, Kelvin disclosed: “The back end of last year, we finished series three, and then we’re already straight on with series four, so that’s coming out very soon.” The acclaimed TV chef joked: “So you can’t really complain about it because it was your idea to do the filming in the first place.”
Kelvin Fletcher wasn’t meant to buy a farm (Image: (Image: ITV))
The former cleaning soap star responded: “We just kind of thought, it’s hopefully of interest. It’s interesting to us and our journey into farming and to this new life, and then, we kind of pitched the idea, and thankfully, ITV thought it was a good idea, too, and four series later, we’re still doing it,” stories the Mirror.
Shifting focus to their shelved transatlantic goals, James remarked, “Just to recap, the reason why you got the farm in the first place was no reason whatsoever. You were originally going to go to America. This was a life-changing thing you decided, and you got the visas and everything, didn’t you?”
Liz added: “As two actors, we thought, you know, Kelvin had been in Emmerdale for 20 years, and we kind of wanted to try something different, and as two actors, we thought, ‘Well, why not? Let’s go to Hollywood and LA and see what happens’.
“And we only had two kids at the time, but sadly, Covid stopped that, and they really stopped the visas. We never acquired the visas accomplished because they said, ‘There’ll be a pause on this for at least two years’.
Kelvin and Liz Fletcher’s lives might have been very different (Image: ITV)
“But we’d mentally moved on, hadn’t we? We sold the house, and we were like, ‘Well, what are we going to do now?’ And that’s when we saw the farm, and it’s literally that that sprung the idea.”
Despite portraying a farmer on Emmerdale, Kelvin candidly admitted that neither he nor his spouse had any real farming expertise in any way.
“That’s the irony, James, is that I was playing a farmer for 20 years, but as you’ll know, with soaps, we did very little farming,” he explained.
“It was more, I think, shooting people with shotguns, going to prison, getting married three or four times. That I was more accustomed to, but when you think of it like that, it sounds crazy, but kind of life has imitated art, and that’s a little bit of what people used to say, there’s an obvious connection there.
“You performed a farmer in Emmerdale, you are not residing this farming life, and we would never seen it like that.”
Kelvin continued: “You know, as Liz said, we would had this dream of going to America. It did not form of pan out. And from Los Angeles to the Peak District, it is most likely not an apparent connection.”
James Martin’s Saturday Morning is accessible to watch on ITVX.
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