Richard Hammond is set to reunite with Jeremy Clarkson and James May for a reboot of The Grand Tour on Prime Video, ahead of its release on Friday, September 4. The trio will appear in the new series to hand over to a new line-up of hosts.
Richard Hammond's girlfriend
Hammond is now in a relationship with therapist and ex-teacher Keira Glen. He was first seen publicly with the 53-year-old at an event in September 2025, around nine months after Hammond and his ex-wife announced their separation.
The Grand Tour host was married to journalist Mindy Etheridge for 23 years, and they share two adult daughters, Izzy and Willow. It has been reported that Keira also has two grown-up daughters in their 20s.
Richard Hammond's accident
In 2006, Hammond was filming an episode of Top Gear at Elvington Airfield near York, attempting to break the British land speed record in a jet-powered Vampire dragster. He was driving at almost 320mph when a tire failure caused the vehicle to flip and roll, leaving him with a life-threatening frontal lobe brain injury.
On his podcast Who We Are Now, he said: “I was conscious throughout the whole thing. The only thing that really sticks in my mind was the noise because of the impact of a car hitting concrete and that’s the thing that actually like rattled my brain. I was completely calm, I’d done everything I could do. I’ve pulled the parachute, I’d steered, braked, it was going upside down, there’s no roof and I thought ‘Oh, checking out now’. No panic at that point, panic had gone, I’d done everything.”
Hammond was in a medically induced coma for two weeks before he woke up. Speaking to Radio Times in 2014, he spoke of the impact the crash had on him, including losing the "ability to connect emotionally." He said: “It was a lot to deal with. I had a pretty tricky few years. The knock-on effects of the injury meant I was susceptible to depression, obsession, compulsion and paranoia, although I wasn’t aware of that at the time. It gave me an unnatural platform from which to observe my own mental state, which was exhausting.”
How old is Richard Hammond?
Richard Hammond is 56 years old, born on December 19, 1969, in Solihull near Birmingham, before his family moved to Ripon, North Yorkshire, in the mid 1980s. He now lives in a six-bedroom Georgian manor house near Abergavenny, Wales, which he purchased for around £2 million earlier this year.
Richard Hammond net worth
It has been widely reported that Richard Hammond has an estimated net worth of around £37 million. This comes from his lifelong television career, working on hit shows like Top Gear and The Grand Tour, as well as through his own production company Chimp Productions and other business ventures.
