{"id":664368,"date":"2026-06-29T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:37:09","slug":"richard-hammond-new-girlfriend-is-governor-of-oxford-private-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664368\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hammond new girlfriend is governor of Oxford private school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 56-year-old former Top Gear host, who announced his divorce for wife of 23 years Mindy last year, has been pictured with his new partner Keira &#8216;Kiki&#8217; Glen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Hammond and Ms Glen were spotted earlier this month in Abergavenny in Wales, where the TV presenter has made home since splitting from his wife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Glen is a non-executive director for Bicester-based engineering firm Barrus Ltd as well as a governor of Headington Rye school in Oxford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26233277.assistant-headteacher-girl-17-spent-night-hotel-oxford\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assistant headteacher and girl, 17, spent night at hotel in Oxford<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Daily Mail has reported that the 53-year-old was previously married to Richard Newall, 65, and the pair have two daughters, aged 26 and 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And that before becoming a therapist, she was a teacher for some years and worked in finance as a client manager for JP Morgan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Headington Rye school describes Ms Glen as a &#8220;highly experienced&#8221; and practising counsellor, specialising in work with young people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She works in schools and at a private practice in Oxford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also spent eleven years as a pupil at Headington and went on to study economics and geography at Edinburgh University.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The school adds: &#8220;Kiki has been involved with Headington in a number of capacities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a student, parent, teacher, a member of the Headingtonians committee, a parents\u2019 rep, a member of the Centenary Committee and a member of the Development Committee.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Kiki\u2019s daughters left Headington in 2018 and 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 56-year-old former Top Gear host, who announced his divorce for wife of 23 years Mindy last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}