Why did the couple turn it down?

Farmer Wants A Wife’s Clarette Goodhead was the ‘villain’ of the season, but things could have ended up very differently. According to Clarette, Farmer Thomas Freeth was offered an eye-watering amount of $20,000 to propose to the schoolteacher during the Farmer Wants A Wife reunion.

She believes if they had accepted, their edit could have played out differently, and the nation would have embraced them rather than sent hate her way.

“Thomas was offered $20,000 for a proposal at the reunion,” Clarette alleges. “We would like [a proposal] to be on our own terms and on our own timeline and not dictated to us by Channel Seven. Although, I think if we had accepted, our edit would have been very different and our love story would have had to be shown from the very beginning.”

When Chattr asks Clarette if the pair have any plans for a televised wedding, or if they will work with Channel Seven on future announcements involving any potential kids, she’s sceptical.

“I think if the network want access to our lives in the future [with] a wedding [or] kids etc, then they would need to admit some wrong doing with our edit and take some accountability of the falsification of our relationship,” she says.

“At the end of the day they wanted a love story, we gave them one, and they chose not to run with it, favouring drama instead. They need to listen to what the viewers want and that’s the original format and the wholesome love story that we were sold.”
Farmer Thomas and Clarette after the show. Image: Instagram

Why didn’t Clarette and Farmer Thomas do interviews during Farmer Wants A Wife?

While Farmer Wants A Wife was airing, Chattr requested interviews with Clarette and Farmer Thomas, but was unable to get these across the line.

Clarette tells us she wasn’t aware of any interview requests, although she’s now heard multiple media outlets tried to secure a chat with the couple during the show.

“During airing, all media requests had to go through Channel Seven as we didn’t have access to our [social media] accounts, and I only had one media request after the Rodeo, which I had a few hours to deadline, which I couldn’t do in the short time frame,” Clarette recalls. “From there, neither Thomas nor I had a single other media request from the publicist despite multiple media outlets now telling us that they were trying to get in contact with us the entire time.”

Now that the show is over, Clarette and Farmer Thomas claim they haven’t received any requests for interviews through the network.

“We have been silenced by them without an opportunity to have our own voice. We know that other couples have had opportunities presented to them via the publicist, but we have had radio silence from all publicists attached to the network,” she alleges.

No wonder Clarette wrote an emotional letter about her time on Farmer Wants A Wife once she had access to her accounts again. Like she said at the time, she’s now “ready to roar”, and she’s not holding back. It’s about time viewers start to distinguish between what’s real and what’s manufactured.

You can watch Farmer Wants A Wife on Channel 7 and 7Plus.