‘It’s slowly ruining me!’ Richard Hammond shares worrying update on new project away from The Grand Tour

Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May marked the end of an era recently when they filmed their final The Grand tour episode, ending their decades-long TV career together.

While the trio all have solo projects of their own to focus on, including Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm and his new pub, Hammond has admitted his own business venture is “slowly ruining” him.

The presenters formed a close working relationship through BBC’s Top Gear, which they hosted together from 2003 to 2015.

Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour debuted in 2016 and has been a hit with fans of the car enthusiasts.

Their final instalment, titled One for the Road, brings to an end motoring adventures of the three friends.

While Clarkson is now occupied with his other Prime series Clarkson;’s Farm, May is also likely to be kept busy by his gin company and pub.

Hammond has starred in his own show about his car workshop, and as he talked about how the three are all going off on their own paths, Hammond, 54, commented: “If I go over and visit Jeremy at his farm, it would be to go over and relax.

“That’s not the same as having to get up at five in the morning and drive for eight hours through the jungle.

“I’ll miss it so much, so much – which is why I’m trying to have some little adventures on my own.

“I’ve got my classic car workshop, which is slowly ruining me, but I’m going to take time to make that work, and I’ll still be playing, but I’ll be out there on a bike or in a car on my own.

“I want to go to Morrocco as well, and Mongolia. I still want a roof tent that the others can’t rip off, so I’d like to do a massive trip in my Land Rover.”

The former Top Gear star’s show first debuted on Discovery+ in 2021, with Hammond able to live his dream of revamping classic cars.

Speaking to The Express last month, he talked about the challenges that come with the job.

He said: “It’s a real business that carries on when the cameras leave, but by the time the cameras come back for series four, the workshop has grown on account of my ridiculous ambition, but also on account of my complete lack of ability as a manager. It’s struggling.”

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He went on to explain how Andrew Greenhouse stepped away from the business, “largely because of my complete lack of ability to manage.”

“The rest of us are still carrying on, and I’m realising, I think I do need a manager here,” he confessed to the publication.

“But the main thing is, we’re getting some great cars in some fantastic stories coming along,” he continued.