Photo credit should read: Global/PA NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature LIFE Podcasts] Richard said: ‘I have to say quite early on that since we spoke to Professor Green – because that’s this week’s episode, but we recorded it a little while back – since then, we’ve lost my father, Izzy’s grandfather, he died.’.
Richard Hammond announces father’s death with ‘tremendous grief’ weeks after marriage split Richard Hammond has revealed the death of his father and shared his ‘tremendous grief’.
Richard, who met columnist Mindy in 1995 at a London PR firm and said he fell in love with her ‘in an instant’, was supported by his wife in 2006 following a high-speed crash on Top Gear which left him with serious injuries.
As part of a 2022 video for the DriveTribe YouTube channel, which he co-founded with his former The Grand Tour co-hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May, he spoke about a dream he was having in hospital after the jet-powered dragster called Vampire crashed at nearly 320mph while filming for Top Gear at the former RAF Elvington airbase near York.
It comes just weeks after Richard split from his wife of 28 years Mindy, who he shares two daughters with.
