Farmer Wants A Wife: Sam gets last laugh after brutal rejection
Sam Reitano has opened up about his shock decision to quit Farmer Wants a Wife on Sunday night and why he was brutally rejected by the contestants.
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Six months after a family tragedy forced Sam Reitano to quit the show, the Farmer Wants a Wife star has no regrets about leaving the program.
“My grandfather passed away, so I decided to leave the show,” he told Confidential.
“It’s still a bit tough and a bit hard to talk about but I’m getting there.”
The Innisfail fruit farmer, 27, had already suffered another heartbreak when he was brutally rejected by most of the women vying for his heart on the show.
Both Emily Rath and Sophie Pereira “friend-zoned” him, while Kirsten Lyndon didn’t appear ready to settle down.
“Look honestly, I feel like Riley [Parkinson] was the only one who was there for the right reasons and the right intentions,” he said.
“I just didn’t feel like farm life was suited for Emily, Sophie and Kirsten. At the beginning of the show, Kirsten said she wasn’t planning to leave her job anytime soon and I thought to myself, ‘it’s Farmer Wants a Wife, not Farmer packs up his bags and heads to Newcastle’. “Sophie was missing her mum and dad after a week and Emily is still at uni and wanted to focus on her studies. I just didn’t feel a spark with Riley, I didn’t feel like our personalities clicked.”
A challenging start to the year was made worse by COVID-19 and its economic impact on farming and agriculture.
Reitano is one of only two achachairu growers in Australia.
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“Myself and my father have to work outside the farm because we don’t generate enough income on the farm to support ourselves,” he said.
“Farming agriculture is pretty hard, it’s not just bushfires and whatnot there’s other contributing factors that can affect you. There are poor prices because there’s no demand.”
However, it appears Reitano may finally have something to smile about after hinting at a new romance.
He is set to update fans on his love life when he returns for the finale.
“You’ll have to wait and see,” he laughed.
Farmer Wants a Wife continues at 7:30pm on Channel 7.