‘We didn’t see eye to eye’

Jack and Olivia are enjoying some quality romantic time in the hot tub on Farmer Wants A Wife when Olivia drops a bombshell: she isn’t sure that she really wants to have children.

Is this a deal-breaker for young Tassie Farmer Jack?
Farmer Jack is pictured on a balcony at night-time with the city skyline in the back drop. He wears a purple velvet suit jacket, white shirt and black tie and suit pants.Farmer Jack: All dressed up to impress his ladies (Credit: CH7)
In the first episode this week on FWAW Jack, 26, and Olivia, 27, head off on a romantic overnight getaway. It was Jack’s parents who met all four of his ladies over lunch and decided that he should take the Queensland vet on the full-day date. And it certainly seems as if the two are hitting it off. But then comes the hot tub and the tricky conversation about kids.

“I guess that was a surprise,” Jack tells TV WEEK. “It was something we didn’t see eye to eye on.”

Is this the end for Jack and Olivia?

While some of the other farmers have kissed every girl they’ve gone on a date with, Jack hasn’t done that. On his date with Hayley, 23, there was a tricky moment where she went in for a kiss and he took a sip from his beer bottle instead!

“At the time, it just didn’t feel quite right to me to do it,” he admits. “And so, when she went in, it was a little bit awkward. I wasn’t there to kiss everyone just for the sake of it, so if I didn’t feel it in the moment, then I didn’t do it. Simple as that.”
Farmer Jack (right) is pictured with four ladies of his farm all in beautiful gowns as they hold champagne glasses amongst a rustic setting of flowers, green grass, trees and little tables and chairs. Jack has been on dates with Sarah (left), Hayley (second right) and now Olivia (right) (Credit: CH7)
In the week’s second episode Jack and his final three ladies head to Sydney for a black-tie dinner. Tough questions are asked. One of them is whether Jack’s kiss with Sarah on his first date had an impact on his later dates.

“It was possible that maybe that initial kiss made me more hesitant to kiss other girls,” he admits. “Dating a lot of women is an unusual thing for me.”

Although Jack is committed to his dairy farm, music is also a passion for him and, when he was younger, he was in a covers band called Jack and the Beanstalks. Hayley, who went to the same Tasmanian school as Jack, saw him perform at the school’s senior ball.

“She remembered the name of the band,” he says.

Recently, Jack has written some songs ‘just for myself’. He doesn’t plan to release them, and, unlike the season’s other singing farmer, Jarrad, has no plans to go on tour.

“No, that’s not me,” he laughs.