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Matt Baker has revealed he left The One Show to spend more time with his family after his mother had an accident on their farm in Yorkshire.

The 43 year old moved back to the Dales with his wife Nicola and their two children to help out on the family's 100-acre sheep farm, a move which has been followed by Channel 4 in a series called Our Farm In The Dales.

While filming, Matt's mum, Janice, revealed she had suffered from a fall while tending to the sheep, which saw them knock her to the ground.

Prior to the accident, Janice had been working the farm for more than 30 years.

Matt told the series the family were concerned they would have to give up the farm entirely, and that he felt he needed to be back at home more to help his family.

"The Hampshire Downs [a breed of sheep] that we have bred here for years are big sheep," he said to the cameras. "They are on the large end of the scale as far as sheep are concerned.

"I think, now at the stage that you're in and what has happened that – and this will be hard to hear as you've put so much effort into the flock that we've got – I just don't think that they are the way forward, for you now," he said to his mother.

Janice agreed that it was "the right decision."

"I know it's the right decision and you reach a time in your life when you think "I really can't do this anymore," she added.

Matt told viewers it has been hard for him to take on the "role-reversal" of looking after his parents Janice and Mike.

"You get to a point in your life when you have to look after your parents and you have to do your best to make sure everything's alright," he said.

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"And that was always weirdly your parents' role when you were growing up. Suddenly there's that role-reversal.

"We're going to spend a lot more time up here because work and things have changed for me and one of the reasons I stopped what I was doing was because I wanted to spend more time with my family and be here a lot more.

"The timing of it couldn't be any better. It's strange the way the world works."

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