Richard Hammond speaks out on ‘powerful’ 12 months after shock divorce
Richard Hammond has spoken out on his shock divorce for the primary time after a ‘powerful’ 12 months for the movie star TV presenter.
The 55-year-old noticed eight years of The Grand Tour come to an finish final 12 months, as he reunited with Jeremy Clarkson and James Could to journey the world in cars, only one 12 months after their time on Prime Gear completed within the wake of Clarkson’s BBC controversy.
Hammond additionally sadly misplaced his 80-year-old dad who had most cancers in October, which got here as an enormous blow to him personally.
It was in January 2025 when Hammond introduced that his 23-year marriage to spouse Mindy was over, with the 2 releasing a joint assertion.
It learn: “Our marriage is coming to an finish, however we have had an incredible 28 years collectively and two unbelievable daughters… We are going to at all times be in one another’s lives and are happy with the household we created.”
Eight months on, the journalist has now spoken out on the shock cut up for the primary time in an interview with the Day by day Mail.
He stated: “It is as I stated within the present: ‘OK, that is occurred. Shifting on.”
Hammond had initially addressed the divorce on an episode of Richard Hammond’s Workshop, a present which sees him run a basic automobile restoration enterprise.
He had stated: “There was a slight change in my circumstances lately. I received divorced. Which implies I now reside right here.”
Hammond, whose present abode is a rented farmhouse within the countryside, has solely beforehand made one temporary remark about his divorce from Mindy, throughout an episode of The Grand Tour.
Identified for usually being energetic and constructive, it’s simple to grasp why the automobile fanatic is perhaps feeling much less optimistic after a troublesome interval.
He added: “I prefer it. It is received superb views, a spot to maintain a few of my vehicles and bikes and better of all it is nearer to the workshop. I am making an attempt to place a silver lining on this. It has been a tricky few years, nevertheless it’s not all dangerous.”
He was additionally requested about the potential of him relationship once more nevertheless it appears as if he is eager to keep away from doing that anytime quickly.
Hammond stated: “Oh, I do not know. I have not received time. Proper now I am coming to the top of a sequence after which… that might be for me to consider.”
Whereas the journalist additionally opened up about his new automobile enterprise shedding half 1,000,000 kilos, suggesting that it hadn’t had the success he has hoped for, he did make a tidy windfall earlier this 12 months alongside Could and Clarkson.
Nevertheless, his pockets are usually not ‘limitlessly deep’ and he is nonetheless annoyed with the way in which his firm, The Smallest Cog, has carried out financially over the past 4 years.
He added: “It has been laborious at instances. Why? Due to my lack of administration potential and the market: it isn’t a straightforward time to be getting down to restore costly vehicles, when individuals are extra involved in regards to the rising price of residing.
“My pockets are usually not limitlessly deep. I’ve to earn what I spend. I would not wish to throw it away. And these are individuals’s precise jobs. It is not a recreation.”
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