A famous person-- -- Richard Hammond

Biography
Hammond was born in Birmingham, the grandson of workers in the automobile industry.

Radio and television career

Richard Hammond

Early in his career, Hammond worked at many radio stations, including Radio York, Radio Cumbria, Radio Leeds, and Radio Lancashire,^[2] before going on to present a number of daytime lifestyle shows and motoring programmes on Men & Motors.

In July 2005 Hammond was voted number one in a heat magazine poll of top "weird celebrity crushes." Also in 2005 he was voted one of the top 10 British TV talents.^[3]

Brainiac: Science Abuse

In 2003, Hammond became the first presenter of Brainiac: Science Abuse; he was joined by Jon Tickle with Charlotte Hudson joining in series 2. After the fourth series it was announced that Richard Hammond was no longer going to present the show due to his signing an exclusive deal with the BBC. Vic Reeves took his place as main presenter.^[4]