Ex-Top Gear host Richard Hammond's 'brave' new Welsh life wild swimming and running

At the beginning of 2025, Hammond announced that he and his wife Mindy, who share two children, were separating, just three months after his father died of cancer.

It also came around the time of the final Grand Tour episode which brought his 22-year broadcasting career with Jeremy Clarkson and James May to an end.

Since then, he has been rebuilding his life in Wales, and said his energy levels had "been replenished".

"I'm now far braver and do things I would never have done," he said.

He has even joined an Abergavenny running club, bringing his 5k time down to under 25 minutes, and taken up open water swimming in the Lake District as he keeps pace with new girlfriend Keira "Kiki" Glen.