What you didn’t see on viral Farmer Wants A Wife star’s final dates

Farmer Will’s good looks broke the internet, and he’s received thousands of proposals from single women. But one of his final leading ladies has lifted the lid on their off-screen romance.

The favourite to steal the heart of Australia’s most eligible rural bachelor has opened up about her surprise edit on Farmer Wants A Wife.

Jess Cova, a 26-year-old dental nurse from Queensland is one of two women that Will Simpson has narrowed his choices down to for the Monday night finale.

The Victorian Broadacre crop and sheep farmer’s good looks made him an overnight sensation, with thousands of single women sending him proposals after spying him on the Channel 7 reality TV program.

The affable bloke who claimed he’s “nothing special”, went from having a couple of hundred Instagram followers to over 26,000 in recent weeks.

Shortly before going on the show, Cova said she went through a break up which left her heartbroken.

Jess Cova, 26, is a dental nurse from Queensland who put herself up for Farmer Wants A Wife after her sister sent her a profile of Farmer Will. Picture: Supplied

“It’s been very surreal to watch the show,” she told Confidential.

“Throughout, they very much tried to push the narrative that I wouldn’t move to be with Will. But I never said that I wouldn’t.”

Of his recent fame, Will Simpson, the surprise breakout star of Farmer Wants A Wife said: “I don’t think I am anything special whatsoever. All this attention is a bit over the top.” (L-R): – Jess Cova, Will Simpson and Madi Simpson.

“I was just being realistic about not being able to move immediately because I very much pride myself on being independent,” the third-year nursing student said.

Adding, that she and Simpson discussed their potential future and her relocation in-depth on their final glamping date, but it was cut from the final edit.

“It was a really beautiful date. We talked about me moving, and me taking him to Italy to meet my nonna.

“Sadly, they did not show much of it. I think that’s how editing goes, for how they want to portray their storylines.”

Will Simpson and his top two ladies, Jess Cova (L) and Madi Simpson (R). The Farmer Wants a Wife finale airs on Tuesday night. Picture: Supplied

While she loved the experience, Cova said some of the edits are “so far fetched from what happened.

“Sometimes me, or Will, or Madi (Simpson’s other final pick) would say something, and it’s put over a scene that happened three weeks later.”

“The relationship we were building at the time is so much stronger than what they’ve portrayed.”

Jess Cova said she was surprised that her edit on the show made it sound like she wasn’t willing to move to be with Will. Picture: Supplied

Cova thinks viewers missed out on seeing how her connection with Simpson developed in real-time. “But they’ve got to keep viewers guessing. It’s very bizarre. I’ve had to remind myself that it’s TV, and I’m a character.”

She is no stranger to the farm, having grown up on an 800-acre property with horses herself. Cova’s little sister tagged her in an ad for the Australian show, which has produced nine marriages, two long-term relationships and 25 babies over the past 11 seasons.

“At first I said, ‘no, that’s silly. That stuff never works out’,” Cova said.

But a Berriwillock local may have spoiled her ending, by telling the So Dramatic! Podcast that Cova has signed up to a netball team in Simpson’s hometown. His mother Jenny, has also friended her on social media.