Clarkson’s Farm star Harriet Cowan has hit back at trolls who criticised her for “dressing up and wearing makeup”.
The nurse and farmer, 24, appeared in the fourth series of the Prime Video hit to temporarily replace Kaleb Cooper at Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
Fans have praised her down-to-earth nature after she admitted she’d never watched a full episode of Clarkson’s Farm and lauded her for breaking stereotypes about female farmers.
However, some viewers claimed she looked too glam while she was working on the farm, with a common critique being: "Stop dressing up and wearing makeup, you're a farmer."
Cowan shut down the backlash by sharing a TikTok of herself dancing and lipsyncing to Selena Gomez’s song Hands Yo Myself, miming the lyrics: "I mean I could, but why would I want to?"
She stressed in the caption: "Farmers wear makeup too."
Earlier this week, the Derbyshire-born farmhand said she hopes to challenge “stereotypes” about farmers.
"Just because I'm a small blonde who likes to curl her hair and wear make-up and things like that doesn't mean I can't be a farmer,” she said on BBC Breakfast News.
"For me, it's really important. I think it's just changing that stereotype of being a farmer and what a farmer is. But I'm definitely still going to farm, you're never getting me off this place!"
Cowan also addressed her future on Clarkson’s Farm amid her growing popularity with viewers.
"We've always left it very open. I'm here if he needs me, but no plans at the minute. If he needs me, I'm here,” she said.
She revealed she has started getting recognised in the street after her TV show debut.
"I'm shocked because I didn't realise so many people are interested in me and what I do day to day. I've never really thought of it as anything exciting. It's just my little life," she admitted.
"I get up and farm, go to work, come back and farm. Even walking down the street and seeing people, they'll recognise us. It's absolutely crazy."
During Cowan’s introductory scene in Clarkson’s office, she admitted she’d never actually watched a full episode of Clarkson’s Farm.
“Well, you know on YouTube you get those 'shorts' where it's like funny moments? I've seen them. I ain't got time to watch all that," she told a baffled-looking Clarkson.
Cowan later discussed the moment with Clarkson’s daughter Emily, insisting it wasn’t “fake”.
“In the trailer where it's like, 'Have you watched Clarkson's Farm before?' And I'm like, 'No', it looked so fake. But it is so real because we don't watch telly,” she said on Emily’s podcast, Should I Delete That?
