'I've wrestled alligators but being a dad is the hardest thing ever' - Yorkshire Vet star Matt Jackson-Smith

The Yorkshire Vet prima Matt Jackson-Smith has opened up astir fatherhood aft the accomplishment of his girl Anastasia past year, revealing that it's the 'hardest thing'

Yorkshire Vet's precise ain Matt Jackson-Smith has candidly shared the trials and tribulations of fatherhood aft welcoming his daughter Anastasia with woman Katherine past October. The Channel 5 sensation, who has chronicled his vet adventures successful the caller merchandise 'My Life As a Yorkshire Vet', confessed successful an exclusive chat that being a dada is "the hardest happening ever".

Matt revealed the affectional whirlwind that comes with being a caller parent. "It's the hardest happening ever. It's a full substance of emotions and I’ve lone conscionable started to decently bask it if I’m honest. Anastasia is astir 1 and she’s starting to get her ain personality. She loses her marbles for nary evident crushed and she’s teething – but I took her for a locomotion yesterday, strapped to the beforehand of me, and it was truthful cute. It has its ups and downs."

Despite the challenges of fatherhood, Matt isn't a alien to information successful his nonrecreational life, particularly erstwhile helium had to enactment a caiman alligator. Recalling 1 of his astir unforgettable moments, helium said: "That is decidedly 1 of my astir memorable snippets of being vet," helium said. "I was like, 'Right, I'm going to person to excavation up my cognition of what Steve Irwin would do.' It was a bully 5 feet - they're not the biggest but I'm acceptable for a saltwater crocodile anytime soon should the accidental arise."

Matt had a constrictive flight portion attending to a calf with a breached leg. "We moved the calf into the close presumption – and the adjacent happening I knew, I was level connected the level with my legs being trampled," helium said. "The parent cattle had hoofed maine to the crushed and trampled implicit me. As she went for the farmer, I rolled underneath the gate. My legs were rather bruised and it’s made maine wary ever since, but that was a adjacent one."

For the clip being, Matt and his woman Katherine are contented with having 1 babe and their canine Harry successful their West Yorkshire home. "They some person small artifact zones – Harry wants to get Anastasia’s toys and she wants to get his toys,” Matt said. “There’s decidedly immoderate sibling absorption astatine this constituent successful time.

"At the moment, 1 kid is capable for present and we’re a one-dog household. We’ve got our hands full. We’re besides presently looking aft a tortoise with a cracked ammunition and there’s Dennis the bearded dragon, truthful we’re beauteous full."

Matt's book, My Life As a Yorkshire Vet (Mirror Books, £20), is retired connected Thursday 10 October. You tin bargain the publication connected Amazon here.