Rich Hammond has revealed how he feared for his financial future when the Top Gear row over Jeremy Clarkson left him worrying exactly how he could pay for to keep their faux castle home and pay his daughter’s school fees. The TV presenter is staying tight lipped about reports that the particular Grand Tour is doubt after another Jeremy Clarkson controversy.

But he has revealed how this individual and James May were left mortified when their daughter loudly questioned if they could still afford to pay at the local KFC last time a Clarkson line left them in limbo. Hammond plus May left Top Equipment with Clarkson after the outspoken broadcaster was suspended and then axed for “unprovoked physical attack” on producer Oisin Tymon in March 2015.

Now in echoes of the Best Gear row there are unconfirmed reports that the Amazon Prime will be severing links with The particular Grand Tour because of Clarkson’s Sun column about Meghan Markle which caused an international outrage. That would be bad news for Hammond who has been renovating his home and ploughing money into his classic car restoration business the Smallest Cog.

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The 53-year-old star, who had moved from Redmarley to Bollitree Castle in Weston-under-Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, in 2008, has exposed how when he remaining his job he and his horse-loving wife Mindy had to warn his two daughters Izzy, now 22, and Willow, right now 19, that life could be about in order to change.

“I was looking at my house thinking ‘this is going to get expensive to run really’ plus looking at my two girls in their nice private college uniforms – ‘oooh, this is all going to really in order to hurt, ” he told the Fuelling Around podcast.

“So we sat them down, Mindy and I plus said: ‘Right guys, you need to know, I know people have mentioned it in school but my job’s gone and that’s where the money comes through. We haven’t got the money tree in the garden’. ”

The particular proud dad said he or she reassured their daughters that will he might eventually find something else but things might be different for a while. Izzy took the particular warning to heart.

“After we finished the show James experienced come over in order to stay with me for a few days, ” said Richard. “We’d gone to Kentucky Fried Chicken in order to get lunch for everyone with Izzy. We got to the front of the queue, put our order in, plus James typically said: ‘Oh, oh, I’ll pay Hammond’ and I stated ‘no, no mate, I can pay’ and he mentioned ‘no, simply no, no Ill pay’.

“And there was a pause, just whenever the whole restaurant had gone quiet, plus Izzy said: ‘Well technically lads, I should pay as you haven’t obtained a job between you’. And the place detonated with laughter.

“She obviously then thought ‘this is the best game’. So subsequently, from the end of the particular queue in Morrisons, as I was waiting to pay she would say very loudly: ‘Daddy, daddy, so when does your credit card stop working? ’ and I’d go ‘Oh, for God’s sake, ’ and again a whole store of people had been in hysterics. ”

Quitting the particular show turned out in order to be a good move because he reportedly doubled his £500, 000-a-year Beeb salary when The Grand Trip went out on Prime’s streaming service in November 2016. The particular first episode of season five aired in September 2022 and the Grand Trip is currently scheduled four more special episodes within 2024.

Yet now the series is said to be in jeopardy because associated with the line over his comments about Meghan Markle in the particular Sun newspaper. Variety say shows presently in the works will still go ahead yet Clarkson’s tenure at the particular streaming service will not reach beyond 2024 and Clarkson’s Farm will certainly end along with series three next year.

Wayne May offers admitted on social media he is enduring a “difficult time” but Hammond, that has appeared upon several TV shows but not had the same success as their co-presenter who went on to make Clarkson’s Farm in the Cotswolds, has kept quiet.

Asked regarding what happened final time with Top Equipment he stated: “The finish of Top Gear has been tough, it was the end of a good era and we knew we got to stick together. I was there, I’m upon record as saying this, I had been there plus it wasn’t a proud moment for anybody. But Jeremy wasn’t fired, they didn’t renew his contract with regard to the next year. ”

In the first episode from the fifth series of the petrol head podcasting which provides attracted famous guests such as Bradley Walsh and Paul Hollywood, Hammond, that Clarkson, 62, nicknamed the particular Hamster, talked about how he recently ploughed a lot of cash into a classic car repair business the Smallest Cog. It has been featured on a TV series, Richard Hammond’s workshop.

During the 52 minute podcast this individual also tells broadcaster Dave Vitty plus British Touring Car Championship legend Jason Plato about surviving their horror crash and recovering from the subsequent brain injury.

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