Richard Hammond admits he's an 'idiot' as he breaks silence after split with wife

Former Top Gear prima Richard Hammond has been documenting his beingness connected YouTube pursuing his divided from woman Mindy aft 28 years of matrimony arsenic helium got locked retired of his house

Former Top Gear favourite Richard Hammond has hilariously dubbed himself "an idiot" aft helium managed to lock himself retired of his ain home amidst his much-awaited comeback connected YouTube.

The mishap unfolded conscionable a fewer weeks pursuing the announcement of his divided from his woman Mindy, after 28 years together. In a caller DriveTribe video released connected Wednesday, the 55-year-old TV prima shared the comical communicative of however his time went awry erstwhile helium recovered himself accidentally locked out. "I'm precocious due to the fact that I locked myself retired of the house," Hammond confessed to his fans.

"I'm really getting acceptable this day to spell to the Lake District, I've got everything packed and ready, and past I thought I'll spell and bare the bins. So I took the room bin retired the beforehand doorway – I ne'er fastener thing – but it's a Yale lock, and the doorway stuck. I was stood outside, I was successful my Crocs, I was successful my dressing gown. I didn't person my phone, the keys, anything."

"It was rather panicky, and I thought, 'What bash I bash now? ' I thought astir crying, but past I thought that won't help. I felt astir 10.", reports the Express. In a hopeless bid to re-enter his house, Hammond recounted his failed effort to interruption a model with a brick, quipping: "I don't cognize however burglars marque a living," earlier admitting decision and calling a locksmith, who breezed done the task successful seconds.

He summed up the fiasco by saying: "I bash not know. So successful the end, I had to telephone a locksmith, who got successful in 5 seconds. So successful short, I'm precocious due to the fact that I'm an idiot." The Grand Tour's Richard Hammond has stepped backmost into the spotlight with a caller video, pursuing his divided from woman Mindy earlier this year.

The brace had been joined for 28 years earlier they announced their separation successful January with a heartfelt associated statement: "Our matrimony is coming to an end, but we've had an astonishing 28 years unneurotic and 2 unthinkable daughters," they shared. "We volition ever beryllium successful each other's lives and are arrogant of the household we created."

The breakup comes aft long-standing rumours of strain owed to Hammond's predominant travels and daring stunts for the show. The mates antecedently resided astatine the lavish £7million Bollitree Castle successful Herefordshire, wherever Hammond had besides fashioned a "man cave" retired of a converted barn.

Now surviving successful a rented location successful a adjacent village, Hammond continues to run his classical car business, Smallest Cog. Meanwhile, it's speculated that Mindy volition clasp the castle pursuing their divorce. In a revealing infinitesimal past year, Hammond gave fans a glimpse into their idiosyncratic beingness during a circuit of his barn, wherever helium joked astir breaking Mindy's "golden rule" by lodging his motorbike postulation there. He quipped: "My woman swears unsighted it is haunted and truthful it is much for maine and the chaps."

In a astonishing twist, contempt their separation, Hammond and Mindy banded unneurotic for a festive household Christmas with their 2 daughters. But it appears the reconciliation was short-lived, arsenic Mindy is said to person filed for divorcement pursuing a erstwhile informing to Hammond that helium was connected his "last chance" years before.

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