Ellie Harrison bid farewell to Countryfile viewers throughout Sunday evening’s episode, which marked the presenter’s remaining outing on the present after 13 years.
For her final instalment, Ellie was joined by Anita Rani at Poole Harbour for the conclusion of a three-year environmental research.
On the finish of the episode, Ellie delivered a heartfelt speech to the viewers. “I’ve had the very best geography area journeys exploring these lovely lands,” she mentioned. “It has been an honour to have been trusted by all of the individuals I’ve met on the programme and by the viewers and I thanks to your time.”
Now that Ellie has stepped down from her position on Countryfile, she’ll little question have extra time to spend together with her household. Maintain studying for all we find out about her life away from the TV cameras.
When she’s not busy reporting on agricultural and environmental points on Countryfile, Ellie might be discovered at house within the Cotswolds, the place she owns a smallholding and historical apple orchard.
The 46-year-old lives together with her associate Matthew Goodman, who works as a GP. The couple share three kids: Crimson, 13, Lux, 11, and a seven-year-old who has not been publicly named.
Whereas Ellie likes to maintain her non-public life out of the highlight, she has beforehand opened up about her husband.
In an interview with Stylist again in 2016, Ellie shared an perception into her and Matthew’s relationship. Gushing about her associate, she mentioned: “He is essentially the most good-looking man on Earth. He is my beloved and I hope we die collectively. Not but. However that is my want – that we find yourself dying collectively.”
She went on so as to add that she’d beforehand turned down a wedding proposal from Matthew however hoped to tie the knot in the future. “He did ask me however I did not see it by means of,” she mentioned. “I’ll do in the future. We have not completed that bit. We have completed the large stuff, the kids, and the scars!”
In the identical interview, Ellie revealed that she had her arm scarred with a blade as a present of dedication to her different half. “It is referred to as scarification,” she defined. “You go to somebody who’s into physique artwork and also you get it completed. There are just a few locations you possibly can go for it in the entire nation.”
The broadcaster went on to say that whereas her associate was initially “shocked” by her resolution, the gesture additionally made him “actually fairly emotional”.
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Whereas Ellie has appeared on numerous TV programmes, comparable to Nation Tracks, The Nice British Winter and The One Present, Countryfile is probably her most notable gig.
So, why precisely is she leaving in any case these years? Again in October, Ellie defined in a press release that she’s hoping to spend extra time together with her kids, in addition to engaged on her household enterprise.
“I’ve come to grasp that I needn’t navigate to an entire new ocean or perhaps a new sea, however to chart a brand new course someplace in these waters, elevating my three fantastic kids, rising our household enterprise and following my very own artistic calling to supply artwork of my very own making,” she mentioned.
