Kelvin Fletcher sparked a bit of a debate online as he shared a video fo his children appearing to drive a vehicle on the farm (Picture: BBC/Jon Parker Lee)
Kelvin Fletcher has concerned fans with a video showing his young children driving a vehicle on his farm.
The Emmerdale actor and former Strictly Come Dancing star owns a farm in the Peak District with wife Liz, where the couple live with their four children.
Kelvin and Liz share daughter Marnie, five, son Milo, three, and earlier this year welcomed twin boys, Maximus and Mateusz.
Kelvin often shares updates of life on the farm to his social media accounts, many of which involve sweet family snaps in the great outdoors, however his latest upload has proved rather divisive.
In the clip, his three-year-old son can be seen in the driver’s seat of a land rover, appearing to drive the vehicle slowly through a field filled with snow.
Five-year-old Marnie then climbs into the front from the back where she was previously sitting, neither of them appearing to be wearing seatbelts.
Kelvin’s son Milo, three, appeared to be driving the land rover through the snow (Picture: kelvin_fletcher / Instagram)
The vehicle was moving slowly through the snow-covered field (Picture: Instagram kelvin_fletcher
Marnie can then be seen appearing to drive the vehicle, again slowly, while Milo stands in his seat and leans partially out an open window.
Kelvin captioned the clip: ‘A different kind of homework,’ adding the hashtag #StartEmYoung.
The clip shocked some of Kelvin’s followers, with one admitting ‘Not sure I’m comfortable with that.
The five-year-old had been in the back seat but appeared to climb over to the front and begin driving (Picture: Instagram/ kelvin_fletcher
Marnie was seen waving to the camera as Milo appeared to lean partially out the window (Picture: Instagram/ kelvin_fletcher)
Another agreed: ‘Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.’
Others dismissed the worry, saying they too had been raised on farms and were allowed to do the same as children, labelling those who were concerned ‘Karens’ and ‘snowflakes.’
One woman recalled how she was allowed to do similar as a child ‘however I was on his lap or he was in the passenger seat,’ and while she thought it was a positive thing, ‘I wouldn’t let [my] children be in the vehicle alone.’
Because the vehicle was being driven on private land, highway rules don’t apply which means there are no legal issues with the children being behind the wheel.
The actor said the idea was a ‘different kind of homework’ (Picture: Instagram/ kelvin_fletcher)
The Fletchers showcased life on the farm in a BBC series Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure (Picture: BBC/Jon Parker Lee)
The Fletcher family’s farm life was previously showcased in TV series Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure, after the family moved from Machester to the countryside during lockdown.
The six-part series saw the family ‘de-camp to the countryside’ for the summer to build a new life on their 120-acre farm on the edge of the Peak District National Park.
Kelvin recently labelled comparisons between Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure and Jeremy Clarkson’s Clarkson’s Farm as ‘unfair’, insisting that theirs is a ‘completely different show’.
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The star rose to fame on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016, before winning the 2019 series of Strictly alongside professional partner Oti Mabuse after being a last-minute replacement for an injured Jamie Laing.
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The video led to a divide in opinion.
