Richard Hammond, (born December
19, 1969), is an award
winning British television
presenter best known for co-presenting Top
Gear along with James
May and Jeremy
Clarkson from 2002 onwards. Earlier in his career he worked
at Radio York and
Radio Cumbria, before going on to present a number of daytime lifestyle
shows and motoring programmes on Men & Motors.
Along with his work on Top Gear he also currently presents Brainiac:
Science Abuse on Sky
One, Should
I Worry About...? on BBC
One and Time
Commanders on BBC Two. He also presented Crufts
2005. Most recently he was seen presenting The Gunpowder
Plot: Exploding the Legend, where he rebuilt the House of
Lords and blew it up as Guy
Fawkes would have, had he succeeded. His weekly column can
be read in the motoring section of The
Daily Mirror each Friday. Richard will also be presenting
the British Parking Awards on 10 March 2006 at the Dorchester
in London, he will present awards in a variety of categories
including 'Parking team of the year' and 'Best new car park'.
As of Tuesday the 3rd of January 2006 Richard is the eponymous
star of Richard
Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show with his co-star Mel
Giedroyc of Late
Lunch fame. The programme, which discusses a wide range
of random and amusing subjects, is shown every weekday on ITV1.
He is also a team captain on the new BBC2 quiz show, Petrolheads,
which begins airing in February 2006.
Originally from the West
Midlands, in the mid 1980s Hammond moved with his family
(mother Eileen, father Alan, and brothers Andrew and Nicholas)
to the Yorkshire market town of Ripon where his father ran a
probate business in the market square. A pupil of Ripon
Grammar School, from 1987 to 1989 he attended Harrogate
College of Art and Technology and was friends with author
and academic Jonathan
Baldwin. He then went onto gain a degree in photography and
television production.
He lives near Cheltenham with
his wife Amanda
and their two young daughters, Isabella and Willow. He also has
three horses, four dogs, two cats, a rabbit and handful of chickens
and sheep along with a collection of vehicles that include two
Land Rovers, a Suzuki
GSXR1000, a Dodge
Charger, a Porsche
911, a Morgan
V6 Roadster and several kit cars, and he also used to sing
and play bass in a band when he was younger.
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