Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond
Richard Mark Hammondis a British presenter, writer, and journalist, best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. He has also presented Brainiac: Science Abuse, Total Wipeoutand Planet Earth Live...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 December 1969
CitySolihull, England
emotional brain scratches
I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
memories brain injury
I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
mother kids years
Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!
reckless
Im not reckless. I was never reckless.
hero car action
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
water car feelings
I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.
sticks crime heels
I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.
reality mars frightening
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
running mad trying
I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.
fans audi bigs
If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.
character car
Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.
sports jobs mean
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
ducks lovely goats
And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.
believe beer hair
Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.