Richard Hammond reveals shock split from wife after 28 years together

Richard Hammond and his spouse have introduced their break up after “28 wonderful years collectively”.

The 55-year-old TV presenter, finest identified for his position on motoring High Gear and The Grand Tour alongside former co-stars James Could and Jeremy Clarkson, married the newspaper columnist Amanda “Mindy” Hammond in 2002.

In a press release shared on-line on Thursday, the pair stated: “Slightly replace from us; this Christmas we have been collectively as a household and this 12 months we’ll nonetheless be a household however simply structured a bit in a different way.

“Our marriage is coming to finish, however we’ve had a tremendous 28 years collectively and two unbelievable daughters.”

“We’ll at all times be in one another’s lives and are happy with the household we created.

“We gained’t be commenting additional and sincerely hope that our privateness and that of our kids might be revered at the moment. With Love, Richard and Mindy.”

Amanda had been a pillar of assist to Hammond as he handled the aftermath of his near-fatal 2006 High Gear crash when he was injured whereas driving a jet-powered automotive at 288 mph. The incident briefly put him right into a coma and left him with severe head accidents, however he managed to make a full restoration and returned to the present in early 2007.

Talking in regards to the incident 16 years later, Hammond admitted in 2022 that his spouse screaming at him within the hospital is what woke him from the coma.

“In hospital, in intensive care, issues have been apparently not wanting superb, however I didn’t know, there was a whole lot of morphine floating round my system,” he stated in 2022. “I lastly woke and I shared with my spouse Mindy a dream I’d been having. A very, actually, actually vivid one, most likely, partly, on account of the morphine.

“And in my thoughts I’d been strolling these hills right here within the Lake District, overlooking Buttermere. I used to be having a stunning time strolling alongside and steadily I received a rising sense of you recognize when you recognize you’re in hassle.”

“(It) grew and grew till ultimately in my dream I turned again, I didn’t stroll again round this tree and stick with it after which I woke.”

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After waking up and telling his spouse about his dream, she advised him that on the identical time, she had been “shouting and screaming” at him, saying ,“Don’t you dare die!”

”That’s once I turned again from this tree in my dream and that’s once I woke,” stated Hammond. “My final thought took me someplace I like and someplace I’m joyful. So I’m not terrified of this outdated tree. I go it repeatedly, most months I come up right here and stroll, and each time I go it, I do really feel comforted.”

Hammond and his spouse share two daughters, Izzy, 24, and Willow, 22.

The motor journalist hosts the podcast Who We Are Now together with his daughter Izzy, who works alongside her dad at his storage.

Hammond discovered fame on native radio earlier than touchdown a task on High Gear in 2002, and went on to current The Grand Tour on Amazon. Hammond has additionally fronted gameshows Brainiac and Complete Wipeout.