is Richard hammond the New Anthea Turner ?

I'm refering to the little bloke off Top Gear (although h'e's not actually that small in real life , Clarkson and the other geezer are just very tall) .
Talk about over exposure, It seems that every time i turn the idiots lantern on I see his impish face and he's getting upto another light hearted , 'jolly good jape', he's bloody everywhere on all channels !

 

Funnily enough my mate said exactly the same thing on New Years day.

I am not sure, I do think he is pretty funny but I think he needs to feed of Clarkson it dosn't quite work without him.

Turner was just annoying full stop. She wasn't funny she was just pointless.

It is also worh noting that a lot of famous TV presenters started on Top Gear, I think Noel Edmons may be one but I am not too sure.

 

Actually I've seen him walk past me on Oxford Street and he is very, very small.
Noel Edmonds starting on Top Gear - don't make me laugh!

 

My eldest daughter is working as a part time waitress in St Andrews. He came into their resteraunt and she told me he wasn't that short- she is now officially the shortest person in the family though and she is a girly so perhaps he looked tall to her...

 

Definitely a short arse. And on top of the alleged teeth whitening, i swear he was looking a little 'orange' in the last show of the series. Can be quite amusing though

 

Noel edmunds did present top gear once to my knowledge. They were profiling the original GT40, and clarkson was way too tall to drive one, edmunds also owned a couple.

Maybe that is what caused the confusion??

 

Here we are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hammond

According to that Hammond is 57 inches tall! I presume this is a misprint and he is in fact 5 feet 7 inches. As I said - a midget to us over 6 feet tall.

 

he is everywhere - last night he was being shat out of britains fattest man on sky one.

 

I think Noel Edmonds did present Top Gear for a while, well before the days of Clarkson, Top Gear has been around since the dawn of time

David

 

Yep the 70's I believe. Although I am not sure when because its well before my time. The Clarkson/Wilson era was the one I remember.

 

Re Noel Edmonds... its all here: http://www.noeledmonds.tv/biography.php

 

I stand corrected about Edmonds. Can you imagine presenting Top Gear in 1978, there must have been some real ****e cars about!

 

Yeah I mean just how much entertainment could you get out of an Austin Marina?

I bet the early top gears just spend the entire programme talking about the Golf GTI. Actually what has changed there?

 

Thats what prompted me. I saw that program, then he is on something called Brainiac where they blow things up, plus Top Gear, then he was doing something on ITV at tea time yesterday . I just went to my Daily Express TV guide to see what the show was called and who should be grinning at me on Page 5 but Richard bloody Hammond, ahhh ! (Richard Hammond's 5 o'clock show !)

Must admit though , most of the things he does seem to be reasonably fun laddish things....

 

He is also now doing a 'tea-time' show on ITV in the 'Richard & Judy' vein.
http://www.londonfreelist.com/details.asp?id=16682

I did enjoy that 'Bonfire Plot' programme he did. Basically an excuse to put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a 'cellar' and blow it up.

 

I'll have you know I had a lot of fun in my Morris Marina!

 

A mate of mine had a Morris Marina many years ago. He was driving to work one day when a Deer leapt over a fence and he hit it full on. His car was written off in the accident. The deer a little shaky and startled, leapt to its feet , jumped back over the fence and raced accross the field again. He said it was surreal, there was no blood or fur anywhere, just him and his smashed up car stranded in the middle of nowhere, with no evidence of what he'd hit !
Wild Deer 1 - Morris Marina 0

 

Oops yes they did have the Morris badge

My dad drove one once, he has driven many awful cars including owning Ladas for 8 years. He said the worst car he has ever driven was the Marina 1.7.

Not that it was slow, it said he was just scared to drive it, he had to keep in convoy with his mate who also hired a 1.7 Marina and they were doing 80mph down the M6, my dad said the he was physicaly shaking becasue the breaks felt none existant and the car felt like it would tip over when it went round corners.

At least the Morris Minors only had 1000cc engines in them.

 

talking of sh*t cars - Fiat...it'll be the last time I ever own one...!!

I've got an old Uno and in the last 2 months I've had 3 punctures - the first one I mentioned a while back (rear driver side), then when I was driving to Lancaster on the 23rd dec - 70mph on the a19 then the front driver side blew out and then last night - the read passenger side blew out when I was driving home from work - but the strange thing was that the tyre looked in perfect condition, just flat and hanging off the wheel...

I had replaced all the tyres except for the one that went down last night...