Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure viewers got more than they bargained for in Monday night's episode when two former Emmerdale co-stars turned up to pay Kelvin a visit.
The fifth episode of the Clarkson's Farm rival saw Kelvin Fletcher show off his farm to his former Emmerdale pals - and also took a lamb to the slaughterhouse before cooking and eating it with his dismayed daughter.
Kelvin met Adam and Danny and took them on a tour of the farm before asking them to help feed his 'rare breed' pigs.
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Adam Thomas got bitten by a pig before he told Kelvin: "Mate...I just can't believe you're a farmer mate!"
Danny then added: "I'm taken by you, I'm in awe of you at the moment. The pigs I can take or leave... I mean they're very cute".
Adam then put Kelvin on the spot, asking: "Well who's idea was this? To buy a farm?"
"Mine", Kelvin said. "I always used to love scenes like this, just scenes when we'd be out in the countryside. With tractors with animals, I was always envious of farmers. They're outdoors, yes it's hard work when the weather's not so great, but I just thought I'd take the plunge and give it a go."
Danny then had a moment with the sheep: "There's nettles that way, sheep that way, so I'm penned in, and my claustrophobia's kicking off."
Then Kelvin gave the lads a chance to drive a proper farm grade tractor across his fields, with Adam taking the wheel beside a clearly delighted Danny Miller.
Adam howled with laughter as he bounced the tractor through the farmland while Danny protested feebly, adding it was 'ridiculously fast' before trying to take the wheel shouting "you're gonna tip it!".
But later in the episode the fun and games gave way to a serious farming moment - and it had some people upset.
Kelvin drove one of the lambs he had raised to a slaughterhouse, in a scene Clarkson's Farm fans may feel is somewhat familiar.
His fiancee Liz said as the lamb was loaded into the transport: "They're not pets and we have to make that decision.
Kelvin then added as he drove: "I dunno why I just feel like... when people say heavy heart, I actually have a heavy heart. I'm dictating the consequences of this little lamb to slaughter. You've got to shoulder that burden really. This is farming. You've got to do this."
Kelvin then arrived at the killing floor and opened up the trailer to try to steer the little lamb out to the slaughterhouse pen.
The former Emmerdale man then asked the staff: "So you'll get on with that today will you? How do you kill him?"
The staff then told Kelvin the animal would be stunned and 'wouldn't feel anything - it's instant."
Kelvin then told viewers he felt 'calmer and better' for going to see the whole process, including seeing the meat hanging in the abattoir hours after a slaughter.
"I feel like it's going to be looked after, " before adding: "I feel like I could have a fight with someone now, feel like a proper man."
Kelvin then went back to the butchers for a look at the lamb he'd taken to turn into chops.
"It's nice to see what you've reared," the staff told Kelvin, before he bought a leg of the lamb he reared and turned it into dinner for the family.
Kelvin then showed the leg of lamb to his daughter Marnie, aged 5, asking "can you believe that was your lamb?"
"What happened to his head?", she asked, clearly slightly distraught.
"Well the butcher's kept his legs, kept his head and some other bits and I've just kept one leg for us," he told her very candidly.
Some viewers weren't thrilled with such a raw insight into the farming world.
@Flopsypickle said: "Sickening to see that all the lambs life was worth is £96.
"So we’ve gone from a documentary highlighting the cruelty of the animal industry (the Panorama on just before the show), to seeing an actor come farmer, slaughter & eat a lamb he raised. Talk about odd scheduling BBC."
KathrynAnne88 said: "That’s just awful. Glad I’m veggie. Think we should all think about meat consumption after that.
"Here’s the lamb I’ve just had slaughtered to his daughter. Lovely."
Martin Kelly said: "Nothing beats a 4 year old preparing a lamb for slaughter."
LyndseyMC said: "This make me want to be vegetarian. Horrible."
John Stevenson: "He is going to be fine. No he isn’t it’s a slaughterhouse."
Before the show was broadcast many compared it to the Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm and during the first episode viewers accused the BBC show of copying Jeremy Clarkson.
In the second episode, viewers had been trying to guess where the farm is, with clues peppered throughout the first two episodes giving people some ideas about the Derbyshire farm's 120 acres and where exactly it could be.
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