Richard Hammond makes rare comment about divorce in new Grand Tour special
They announced their divorce earlier this year.
Richard Hammond has made a rare reference to his divorce from Amanda Etheridge in a brand new special for The Grand Tour.
TV presenter and former Top Gear star Hammond, 55, married Etheridge, 59, in 2002, when the couple were aged 33 and 37 respectively.
The pair confirmed their divorce earlier this year, saying in a statement that they’d had an ‘incredible 28 years together’ and were ‘proud of the family’ that they’d created.
Now, in a brand new Amazon Prime special for The Grand Tour, titled The Not Very Grand Tour, Hammond has addressed their split.
In the new special looking back over the show’s best bits, the 55-year-old narrates and introduces portions of the episode.
‘In the 1800s, the average American travelled 50 metres a day. Now, the average person travels 50 kilometres a day, and some cover a lot more,’ he said at one point.
The two were married between 2002 and 2025 (Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty)‘If we travel more, we see more, we learn more. And we don’t have to marry whoever lives next door, which is my case,’ he quipped, which appears to have been in reference to his split.
Hammond then faced the camera with a pained expression, as James May interjected with: ‘Anyway!’
As for the special itself, fans have admitted to feeling ‘insulted’ after the first episode was made available for them to stream on Friday night.
Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Hammond, the motoring series first began in November 2016, with 46 episodes released across eight years.
The main series came to an end in 2019, with the last groups of episodes – in 2019, 2022, and 2024 – operating as brief ‘road trip specials’.
