“I didn’t realise until afterwards when someone said, ‘You’re not meant to look a reindeer straight in the eye or it will charge at you with its antlers.'”
Helen chuckled: “I was like, ‘OK, that was not in my arsenal of knowledge.’ I didn’t know that. So, apparently, I narrowly avoided injury.”
The presenter said it is not uncommon to suffer behind-the-scenes mishaps with farm animals because of their unpredictability.
Speaking about farming blunders, Helen remarked: “It’s constant. The whole joy and challenge of filming with animals are that they don’t care about schedules, cameras, or people needing to do stuff.