After Top Gear’s exit, Richard Hammond’s daughter beat him.
Richard Hammond He revealed that his daughter had teased him about money, and jokedly offered to pay food for him after he left. Top Gear.
The original host of the motoring show was 53-year-old TV star. Jeremy Clarkson James May.
But Clarkson was dropped in 2015 after an altercation with one of the show’s producers and Hammond and May followed him out of the door, saying the trio came “as a package”.
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Hammond, who has two daughters with his wife Mindy, said after he’d left he told his girls he didn’t have a job as he wanted them to learn that money has to come from somewhere.
Talking about the Fuelling Around podcast, he said they took it on board but admitted his daughter Isabella couldn’t resist the chance to poke fun when they were out.
He said: “After we finished the show James had come over to stay with me for a few days. We had gone to Kentucky Fried Chicken to go and get lunch for everyone with Izzy.”
Hammond stated that May and May argued about who was paying when they reached the front of the line. They both wanted to buy lunch.
He went on: “And there was a pause, just when the whole restaurant had gone quiet, and Izzy said, ‘Well technically lads, I should pay as you haven’t got a job between you.’
“And the place detonated with laughter.”
Hammond, Clarkson, and May are currently on The Grand Tour. Hammond said that his daughter enjoyed taking the swipe, as she did it again while they were at the supermarket.
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He said she would ask “very loudly” at the checkout: “Daddy, daddy, so when does your credit card stop working?”
“I’d go, ‘Oh, for God’s sake’ and again a whole store of people were in hysterics,” he admitted.
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