BBC presenter visited by police after a viewer complained over husband riding a quad bike with their two-year-old on his lap

The family were ‘disappointed’ (Picture: BBC/Instagram)

Emma Gray, star of This Farming Life on BBC Two, has revealed she had a visit from police after a viewer complained about her husband riding a quad bike with their son on the show.

The shepherdess, 35, had police turn up at her door after Ewan drove the quad bike slowly across the family’s lambing field with two-year-old Len sitting in his lap.

Len – who is their only child – was wearing a helmet and, Emma said she wasn’t aware of ‘breaking the law.’

The mother-of-one – who recently relocated from her National Trust farm Fallowlees in Northumberland to the Isle of Bute – shared the story on her Instagram.

Posting a photo on her story of a police fan parked outside their property, she wrote: ‘So nice to have a visit from the police.

‘Someone kindly made an anonymous complaint about us having Len with us on the quad during the show.’

Emma shared with her followers what happened (Picture: Instagram)

‘Makes you feel a bit horrible inside,’ she added.

Emma also spoke to FEMAIL, admitting she felt ‘disappointed’ with the incident.

‘It was in the midst of covid, we had just moved to new island, we have no family nearby, nor any childcare.

‘Taking Len slowly round on the bike with his dad with a helmet on to check the welfare of lambing ewes didn’t strike us to be breaking the law.’

The footage of Len on the bike with his dad aired four weeks after the couple moved in to their new home.

Len seemed to be enjoying the ride as he smiled, kitted out in wellies.

Little Len smiled as he sat in his dad’s lap (Picture: BBC)

There is no minimum age requirement for riding quad bikes on private land and you do not need a driving licence to ride a quad bike off-road.

ad bikes on private land and you do not need a driving licence to ride a quad bike off-road.

While quad bikes are permitted to carry passengers if they are designed to do so, passengers in England, Scotland and Wales are not legally required to wear crash helmets – but it is advised.

Emma rose to prominence 12 years ago – at the age of 23 – following her split from her fiancé in which she acquired solo residency of the National Trust’s 150 acre Fallowlees Farm.

This made her Britain’s youngest solo shepherdess.

Emma and Ewan moved to their new home a matter of weeks before (Picture: BBC Studios/Neil Denham)

She started training dogs at 13-years-old and is now a record-breaking trainer of sheepdogs, who competes in trials with her own.

She also became the first woman to win Northumberland’s Sheepdog Trials League in 40 years, and made border collie royalty after selling her canine for £18,900 at auction.

Emma married Ewan in 2018 at Kelso Town House, and later held the reception at her parent’s farm in Hawick in Roxburghshire.

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This Farming Life first aired in 2016 and has run for four series so far.

It follows the working days of farmers and their families in beautiful locations across Britain.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Argyll and West Dunbartonshire police for comment.

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