WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
As the new crop of budding wives dust off their finest flannos for season 10, we look back at eight successful couples from TV’S most fruitful dating g show
WA f farmer Nathan, 3 37, knew he had found The One in Amanda – he proposed to the stunning Rockingham brunette in the show’s finale! The couple now share three boys, Mason, eight, Benjamin, five, and four-monthold Oscar.
“We’ve accomplished a lot together in 10 years, from kids to travelling, moving around and owning our own home,” Amanda, 33, tells Woman’s Day.
“Life is certainly busy, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.”
ROB HODGES & JOANNA FINCHAM SEASON 2, 2008 NATHAN MCCLYMONT & AMANDA ECKER SEASON 5, 2010
Mmount G Gambier bi f farmer R Robb confessed his love for Melbourne girl Jo in 2008, and the couple have since tied the knot and had three children – daughters Darcy, nine, Maggie, six, and three-year-old son Roy.
“Farmer really was life-changing, especially for meeting Rob and having our three kiddies!” Joanna tells Woman’s Day. She still works as a photographer but has happily made a life for herself on Rob’s South Australian cattle farm.
The pair also run their own holistic health and wellbeing centre, The Nourish Nook, in Mount Gambier.
BRAD CRANE & STACIE MARMION SEASON 4, 2009
Appearing in season four, Brad and Stacie have lasted the distance.
While admitting he only went on the show “for a bit of fun”, Lithgow cattle farmer Brad, 40, still cannot believe he met the love of his life.
Just six months after filming wrapped, he proposed, and the couple now share three girls – Darcie, seven, Bobbie, five, and Frankie, three.
Brad told Woman’s Day last year, “We are happiest just enjoying each other’s company. Stacie is my best mate.”
“We live a fairly fast-paced life now. We run a property maintenance and rural contracting company and our three girls are wild!” says Stacie, 37.
“Looking back on it, it was such a random way to meet, but 11 years on, we don’t regret a single thing.”
DAMIAN ATKINS & RACHAEL PEYNENBORG SEASON 3, 2009
Damian and Rachael solidified their TV romance by having Farmer’s first love child, Harvey, now nine, in 2011.
After marrying five years later on the banks of Tasmania’s Mersey River, they added two more children – Fin, seven, and Mae, five – to their brood.
They now own several farms together where they look after more than 1000 beef cattle.
“We’re doing great – just trying to juggle our businesses, farms and our three crazy kids!” says Damian.
SCOTT WARBY & CLARE SPARK SEASON 4, 2009
Scott and Clare defied all expectations, continuing their romance long distance after the cameras stopped rolling, with Toowoomba-based Clare travelling to Scott’s sheep and crop farm every weekend.
Acknowledging her commitment, Scott, now 40, got down on one knee, and they now both live on their Mungindi property in NSW with their two children, Elise, seven, and Fraser, four.
CHRIS NEWSOME & KIM TIERNEY SEASON 1, 2007
In the show’s first season, Australia fell in love with Tamworth’s Chris, 47, and Kim, 45, with their undeniable chemistry radiating from our TV screens from the first episode.
Fast-forward 13 years and they’ve managed to last the distance. Marrying in 2008, they were the first couple from the series to tie the knot with Chris proposing to “his best friend” with a 1.2 carat diamond ring, and their ceremony even featured in season two!
In season three’s final episode, the loved-up pair made the announcement they were pregnant with their first child, Charlotte. They now have a second child, a son.
FRANK ATHERTON & TENILLE JOLLY SEASON 7, 2011
Sparks certainly did fly during the couple’s first speed date on the show – with the Queensland grazier whisking the Perth office girl all the way to the finale.
Two years later, it appeared their love was still very much the real deal, with Tenille confessing she “knew it was meant to be, it was all just too easy”.
On Valentine’s Day 2013, Frank, 40, proposed to Tenille, 36, on his Hughenden property and they now spend their days maintaining the sprawling estate while raising their three-year-old son Oliver.
SAM ALFORD & JODIE BYRNE SEASON 8, 2012
While apprehensive to leave her fast-paced career as a travel agent in Sydney, Jodie, 35, was so enamoured with cattleman and musterer
Sam, 40, that she relocated to his Western Australian property in the same year of filming! Sam proposed over Christmas in 2012 on a piece of driftwood in the Daintree Rainforest, before tying the knot in an outdoor garden ceremony in Nowra in 2015. In late 2018, they gave birth to their first child, River.