Local Welsh celebrities have been making a pig’s ear of things down on the farm for the new series of Fferm Ffactor Selebs.

Among the new contestants taking part this series are singer and TV presenter Lisa Angharad who was raised on a smallholding near Aberystwyth, former Wales international and Porthmadog football player Owain Tudur Jones, Anni Llyn, the former Children’s Poet Laureate for Wales who was raised on a sheep and cattle farm on the Llyn Peninsula, musician, actor and TV presenter Dewi Pws who lives in Nefyn and farmer and TV adventurer Wil Evans from Machynlleth.

The other stars of the series are a pair of pigs and a livestock trailer from Ifor Williams Trailers into which they were herded – eventually!

Viewers will be able to see the hilarious results when the first programme, made by Caernarfon-based Cwmni Da airs on S4C at 7.30pm this Saturday, 9 March.

Joining the familiar faces from our area and have an equally swill time as they vie for honours in this year’s series, are a collection of stars from the worlds of music, drama and broadcasting.

One of the tasks in the opening episode is to drive the pigs, nicknamed Pinky and Perky, through a tricky course at Coleg Cambria’s Llysfasi site near Ruthin and load them onto the livestock trailer from Ifor Williams Trailers, which will also be used for a similar trial involving sheep later in the series.

Every twist and turn has been captured on camera under the watchful eye of judges Caryl Gruffydd Roberts and Richard Tudor.

Lisa Angharad has been teamed up with madcap musician, actor and TV presenter Dewi Pws and farmer and TV adventurer Wil Evans.

Discussing her farming credentials before the series started filming, she said: “My mother has a very agricultural background so I have more knowledge than the average person.

“I know about Ifor Williams Trailers. We didn’t have one on our small-holding but we used to borrow other people’s.

“I’m looking forward to the task with pigs because they are my favourite farm animal.”

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