Earlier reference to Jake Thackery - What he actually said and was broadcast in a programme made by the BBC, was a comment about a song he had written. The song contains the "yan tan tetherer" counting system and he introduced the song with a story about his grandmother, or maybe his great grandmother, having kept sheep on the hills.
The confession he made was that the story about sheep herders in the family was a total fabrication as they lived in the middle of Leeds, not in an isolated farm in the Yorkshire Dales.
Quack!
GtD.