Biography
The English journalist Richard Hammond is primarily known as one of the leading car show "Top Gear". However, few people know that Birmingham's native became the author of several books and released a dozen scientific and popular gears, the most popular of which were "Mozgolomes: violence against science" and "invisible worlds of Richard Hammond."Childhood and youth
Richard Mark Hammond was born on December 19, 1969 in the English city of Birmingham. The grandson of the automotive industry workers in his youth lived in the town of Ripton, where the family with three sons moved in the mid-1980s. There, Father Alan Hammond entered the service in a notarized office, and Eilie's mother took up the education and education of children.
After passing the course of primary training in a paid independent Blossofield school, Richard enrolled in Ripton's gymnasium, and later began to attend the Northern Yorkshire College, which was famous for the faculties of technology and art. In this institution, Hammond listened to the course of photography and the basics of television and began a career on BBC radio stations.
Having worked as an assistant, the young man became the leading morning show on the BBC Radio York, and in the breaks between the air performed the courier duties and spread tea and coffee to more experienced colleagues. After some time, Richard was tired of interviewing Kuznetsov, farmers and cooks, and he began to change radio stations in search of plots more interesting.
TV
In the late 1990s, the beginning of the 2000s, Hammond came to television and made his debut in the Daytime program "Car File" and "Motorweek" on the Men & Motors satellite channel. In each issue, the young presenter told about cars and the style of life of real men and gradually got used to the atmosphere of the film crew, learned to work on the camera.In 2002, Richard became co-host Jeremy Clarkson and Jason Dow in the updated version of the Top Gear car show. The fan of technological progress with enthusiasm has begun a new job and from the 1st season demonstrated the ability of a talented interviewer, driver and a cascaderal.
At the beginning, colleagues were seriously related to Hammond, but when the British journalist James May came to replace Dow, the situation has changed. The fact is that browsing the finished material, TV presenters noticed: Small and affected Richard (height 168 cm, weight 65 kg) It looks very funny on the background of high and broad-widespread men.
This visual effect served as a reason for numerous jokes, and as a result, the lowest participant of the program received a nickname hamster, which consolidated him for all the next years of television career. In each issue, Clarkson and Mei released sharpness to the colleague, who chewed the cardboard and whitening his teeth, was forced to participate in extravagant experiments with vehicles.
For 12 years of participation in the program, Richard had to check whether the car could move on cow dung and whether limousine is able to jump over the participants of the marriage ceremony. In one of the 2004 series, Hammond under the blows of artificial lightning tested the strength of the VW Golf V model, and he then played the road version of the Russian Roulette and installed the world record for the number of car dumpors at the maximum speed.
Unfortunately, these and other experiments were not always safe, and in 2006, Richard almost painted Richard to the next episode of Top Gear, during an accident at the former RAF Elvington Air Base near York.
Being behind the wheel of the Vampire jet car, Hammond accelerated to 464 km / h and, according to rumors, tried to develop the maximum speed of movement on land and beat the existed record. As a result, the right front tire burst, and a car, twisted on the track, turned in the air and crashed.
Richard hit his head about the Earth and with eye damage and heavy brain injuries were delivered by helicopter to the medical hospital of the city of Leeds. The examination has established that the presenter survived only due to the instantaneous reaction and driving skills.
After a 3-month recovery, Hammond appeared on television on a Friday show with Jonathan Ross and said that for 2 weeks was in a coma, and then suffered about post-traumatic amnesia and violation of short-term memory.
Already returning to your native show, where in January 2007, Clarkson commented on the Vampire crash episode, Richard in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper confessed that the consequences were more serious than he thought. Deposwards and anxiety emotional state were added to the scattered and inability.
However, with the help of psychiatrists, the lead managed to recover and regularly appeared in the author's program "Five o'clock", the documentary series "Engineering connections" and the project on the surrounding reality "Invisible worlds".
Until 2015, Hammond remained at Top Gear, but after the conflict of Clarkson, with the leadership, he left the transfer and together with the former colleagues organized his own show "Big Journey" (English "The Grand Tour"). Starting at the streaming canal belonging to the Amazon Prime service, Hammond and comrades signed a 3-year contract and began to appear weekly on the air.
In the process of filming in Switzerland, where the leaders arranged races on the electrocrase, Richard was again on the hairs of death. This time he did not drop the speed on the mountain serpentine, and the car model Rimac Concept One, departed from the road, overturned and caught fire.
Fortunately, Hammond himself got out of the cockpit and got off the knee fracture and insignificant bruises. After hospitalization in the local hospital, doctors watched for the state of health of the rider, the TV journalist returned to work and in 2018 appeared on filming in London under the supervision of his wife.
Personal life
At the beginning of the Hammond television career, Amanda Etheridge was marked on the journalist of Eto Daily Express. Now a couple have two daughters - Isabella and Willow.
Despite the fact that the TV host does not like to spread about personal life and does not publish everyday photos in Instagram, reporters learned that since 2008 the TV presenter family lives in an old castle in Herfordshire and owns 20 acres of land in the surrounding surroundings.
When Richard is not at home, a wife is cautious by the territory with hired workers and takes care of numerous animals: cats, dogs, horses, pigs and goats.
Since the biography of the TV host turned out to be associated with cars, the garage of the estate is an exhibition of modern and rare vehicles. In addition to the comfortable van, the Hammond family owns a dozen cars, 28 motorcycles and a private journey helicopter.
However, the abundance of vehicles does not interfere with Richard to get involved in jogging and lead a healthy lifestyle. The denying presence of plastic and cosmetic interventions, a former participant of the Top Gear car show is in excellent form and tries to follow modern traditions, stylishly dressed in the most expensive stores of Great Britain.
For the soul, the television lead mastered the game on the bass guitar and wrote the books "on the edge: my story", "Or Is That Just Me?", AS You Do and others.
Richard Hammond now
At the end of 2018, Hammond with former Top Gear colleagues announced the release of the 4th season of the Show "Big Journey".And although a huge state allows a television lead to get away from affairs, it continues to be removed and produce the author's car column in the newspaper.
In 2019, Richard voiced and revised a new video game called "The Grand Tour Game" and took part in testing a racing car tire 911GT3 R in Portugal.
TV project
- 1998-2002 - "CAR FILE"
- 2002-2015 - "Top Gear"
- 2003-2006 - "Mozgolomes: violence against science"
- 2008-2012 - "Engineering Communications Richard Hammond"
- 2009-2011 - "Richard Hammond's Blast Lab"
- 2010 - "Invisible Worlds Richard Hammond"
- 2012 - "Richard Hammond's Crash Course"
- 2014-2015 - SCIENCE OF STUPID
- 2016-N.V. - "The Grand Tour"