Richard Hammond is a British radio and television presenter and former resident of St. Leonard’s Mental Health Institution in Southwick, UK. Most famous for presenting television motoring show Top Gear.

Illness and Radio

Hammond began as many British people do, taking education from the government, while studying for an A Level Graphics qualification became interested in prehistoric animals and hoped to go into Palaeontology, but unfortunately at the age of 17 Hammond was diagnosed with the fatal Insyncontricity Disorder, a disease of the mind that caused his “eccentric” behaviour, he was spotted because of his unexplained violence towards vehicles and lamp posts, at the time he received treatment he learned how to turn his anger from violence into critique, and so decided to become a presenter and journalist on St. Leonard’s Mental Health Institution’s prime time radio show “The Crackers Show”.

When he was discharged from the institution he was immediately put into a Presenter roster for BBC Radio Southwick and was a hit with the local population before being moved to the much bigger BBC Radio 2.

Televisual Revolution

Soon enough the presenter was spotted for his eccentricity and presenter sizzle by Car journalist Jeremy Clarkson who wanted to put him in his all new new look BBC TV Show Top Gear. Hammond was bubbling at the very thought of being on Britain’s most famed Car show and accepted without argument. He has been presenting Top Gear now since 2002 along with Jeremy Clarkson and the old-fashioned eccentric train collector James May.

New Shows

Ever since Hammond’s premiere onto television with Top Gear he has been buried with offers for other television shows. He shows his insane tendencies on explosive laden show, Brainiac, where he destroys homes of innocent people for fun, along with his fellow presenter John Tickle.

His mad-cap actions on Top Gear are simplified for kids on the Saturday Morning TV Show Dick and Jerry in da Bungalow (with Jeremy Clarkson).

More recently he has been found filming numerous “Should I worry about…” documentaries, Including most recently “Should I worry about global warming?”- which ended with a resounding “No” from Hammond. He can finally be found presenting the BBC’s best known virtual reality history game show Time Commanders – W00T!

Tidbits

Hammond is winner of the 2004 Heat magazine award for Weirdest man of the year, who’s kinda cute.

Hammond is rumoured to become the next poet laureate. He has never written a poem.

Contrary to popular rumour, Richard Hammond has NOT HAD HIS TEETH WHITENED, OK!?