{"id":589267,"date":"2026-09-03T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:32:10","slug":"alone-australia-kiwi-contestant-clint-waghorn-talks-for-first-time-about-dads-fatal-farm-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589267\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone Australia Kiwi contestant Clint Waghorn talks for first time about dad\u2019s fatal farm crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waghorn told the camera he had spent a spring day helping a neighbouring farmer while his father remained at home carrying out jobs around the family farm.<\/p>\n

\"KiwiKiwi contestant Clint Waghorn opened up about the farm accident that killed his father nearly 31 years ago. Photo \/ Alone Australia<\/p>\n

Returning later that afternoon in a farm ute, he came around a corner to find his father approaching from the opposite direction on a four-wheeler.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t see me. He hit the front of the ute. It was enough for him to fly over the handlebars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bike plunged down a bank while his father was left badly injured beside the driveway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went and got help, called the ambulance. By the time they got there, he was deteriorating. We knew there was something badly wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SheepSheep and beef farmer Clint Waghorn has recalled the day his father (pictured) was fatally injured, depriving him of a parent and his closest mate. Photo \/ Alone Australia<\/p>\n

An air ambulance was called, but his father died on the way to hospital.<\/p>\n

The loss was devastating for Waghorn, who described his father as a parent and a mate.<\/p>\n

\u201cDad and I were bloody close. We hunted together, we fished together, worked together, drank beer together, watched sport on TV together.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo lose your dad and your mate in one blow like that, bloody hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ClintClint Waghorn says the death of his father taught him to make the most of every day, a lesson that drives him as he battles to outlast nine Australians in a reality TV show. Photo \/ Alone Australia<\/p>\n

The revelation marked a rare display of vulnerability from the self-reliant farmer, who has built a life around resilience and endurance.<\/p>\n

Living off-grid on a remote sheep and beef farm, Waghorn powers his property with solar energy and raises much of his own food. His outdoor credentials include a 10,000km sea-kayaking expedition around Alaska, which became the subject of a book, and a 14-day solo survival challenge in the New Zealand wilderness.<\/p>\n

But despite a lifetime spent tackling physical hardship, Waghorn said the memory of his father\u2019s death remained difficult to confront.<\/p>\n

He said the tragedy shaped his outlook on life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing I took from that fateful day all those years ago, it\u2019s make the best use of what time I\u2019ve got every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reflection came as Waghorn continued battling dwindling food supplies more than a month into the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can fish all day, be nothing, nothing, nothing. Then suddenly you get one bite and it just can make everything worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waghorn told the camera he had spent a spring day helping a neighbouring farmer while his father remained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1443,1081,127396,34384,8212,85,112182,8813,69658,3549,9057,156,2550,3233,12026,11784,33445,2209,1888,2082,10933,194,13631,111,139,69,12860,2687,54894,301,1361,2044,11787,437,171464,1842,102,80],"class_list":["post-589267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-about","tag-accident","tag-adventurer","tag-alone","tag-anyone","tag-australia","tag-clint","tag-competing","tag-contestant","tag-crash","tag-dads","tag-entertainment","tag-even","tag-farm","tag-farmer","tag-fatal","tag-fatally","tag-father","tag-first","tag-for","tag-injured","tag-kiwi","tag-never","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-revealed","tag-saying","tag-spoken","tag-talks","tag-that","tag-time","tag-tragic","tag-tv","tag-waghorn","tag-wife","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}