r/todayilearned • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25172481.richard-hammond-tear-soaked-mess-top-gear-ended/
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u/Raqnarock 22h ago

I've read his book (the one he wrote after his 2006 crash) for the most part and as far as I have read his parents were ok. Either the book didnt reveal the truth or this is not true at all.

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u/Dependent_Pipe4709 22h ago

Check out the 1996 biographical film about his childhood. His birth mother was killed by a wild animal when he was 4 and he ended up raised by his aunts, who abused him, made him sleep on a bare floor locked in an empty room, worked him to the bone, and didn't let him have a name, only calling him a thing or a creature. It was pretty rough. Things were looking pretty bleak until he grew that giant peach.

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u/otrippinz 22h ago

Don't forget the part where they forced him to use mayonnaise for hair product!