James Weir recaps Farmer Wants A Wife 2025 episode 2: Contestant takes show a little too personally

Just a few hours into filming, this reality TV contestant takes one decision way too personally. James Weir recaps.

Hit the bricks. Picture: Channel 7.

One of the rejected city girls on Farmer Wants A Wife unravels as she’s put on a Royal Flying Doctor Service plane and air-dropped back in the big smoke.

We’re not even 24-hours into Channel 7’s wholesome reality show, but these sheilas have already started picturing a romantic life in the outback while scream-singing the lyrics to Cowboy Take Me Away.

Their dreams go up in smoke when the farmers set fire to the fantasy like a cane paddock in crushing season.

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We’re still in the speed date rounds on Tuesday night. All the farmers suffer through meet-and-greets with their respective flocks of ladies before deciding who to put on the first locomotive outta town.

About 12 sheilas are given a one-way ticket. Some of them don’t take the news well – like Kaitlin. She might’ve only spent a total of three minutes with Farmer Tom, but that doesn’t mean her feelings aren’t deep.

“I thought we had a good connection on our speed date,” she fumes to us before walking off camera. “I just feel completely blindsided, to be honest. I just can’t do this.”

Kaitlin, it has barely been 10 hours since the show started filming. Get a grip. Just go back to the city and try flirting with random men at the R.M. Williams store in Westfield.

Kaitlin will forever cherish the three minutes she spent with Farmer Tom. Picture: Channel 7.

Meanwhile, all the other girls are desperately trying to impress their farmers.

Some chick called Ashlee even brings a prop.

“I enjoy making mood board,” she tells Farmer Jarrad, holding up a giant piece of cardboard with various scraps of junk glued to it. “So, it’s a board of things I want to achieve and accomplish.”

“I don’t think I’ve seen a mood board in real life before,” Farmer Jarrad grunts.

Same. Does Ashlee know about Pinterest?

“I was thinking we can put it somewhere in our farm!” she says.

Great idea! How about in the wood chipper?

Mood boards aren’t the only boards Ashlee enjoys.

“I enjoy cheese boards!” she squeals.

Speaking of boards, we’re bored.

Question: can the mood board *double* as the cheese board? Picture: Channel 7.

It’s during these first few days that many of the hopefuls try disguising their high-maintenance city girl habits. They talk with hammed-up ocker drawls and lie about how they love gettin’ dirty with some hard yakka.

“Bloody oath!” one lady growls.

“I love being covered in dust and mud!” insists another.

“I’ve got a LandCruiser!” promises one gal, and we immediately demand she prove it by showing us a copy of her car rego papers.

The fibs don’t stop there.

“This is absolutely gorgeous!” one girl gushes as Farmer Corey’s ute pulls up at his dry patch of land in Biloela.

We then get an aerial shot of the allegedly “gorgeous” property:

That’s a bold claim. Picture: Channel 7.

Over at Farmer Jarrad’s joint, he picks one sheila for a solo date and then does the cringiest thing a man can do in the modern dating world: He pulls out a guitar and sings at her.

“I wan-na push you a-round! Well, I will! Well, I will!” Picture: Channel 7.

“This is a song I’ve been workin’ on for a little bit …” he says, before plucking the strings and warbling in a faux southern twang.

To quote Kaitlin from earlier in this episode: We feel completely blindsided. We just can’t do this.

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Originally published as James Weir recaps Farmer Wants A Wife 2025 episode 2: Contestant takes show a little too personally