{"id":808584,"date":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808584\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","slug":"top-gears-richard-hammond-set-for-4-million-financial-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808584\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear&#8217;s Richard Hammond set for \u00a34 million financial windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The payout, reported to be close to \u00a34 million, follows the closure of Hamster&#8217;s Wheel Productions, a TV company co-owned with his estranged wife, Mindy Hammond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pair separated after more than 20 years of marriage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A declaration of solvency published on Companies House shows the company has \u00a32.3 million in cash, is owed \u00a31.45 million, and can reclaim \u00a3176,573 in corporation tax.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Hammond said: &#8220;A little update from us; this Christmas we were together as a family, and this year we will still be a family but just structured a bit differently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Our marriage is coming to an end, but we&#8217;ve had an amazing 28 years together and two incredible daughters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will always be in each other&#8217;s lives and are proud of the family we created.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;With Love, Richard and Mindy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hamster&#8217;s Wheel Productions was behind several television projects, including the BBC children\u2019s gameshow Blast Lab and the climate series Wild Weather.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to reports, Mr Hammond moved out of the family home near Ross-on-Wye after the split and spent time in rented accommodation before relocating to Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The payout, reported to be close to \u00a34 million, follows the closure of Hamster&#8217;s Wheel Productions, a TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808584","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\/808584","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=808584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}