Why is Richard Hammond given so much time on tv. From "Top Gear", to the "Invisible Worlds", "Total Wipeout", Sport Relief and those annoying Morrisons ads (Are we really expected to believe that Hammond shops at Morrisons).

I can't see the appeal of this middle-aged, pint-sized, long-haired petrol head, with the personality of a parking meter. Just because he nearly killed himself once, we have to tolerate his fizzog on the goggle-box every five minutes.

I sort of like him.

silly show though-Top Gear. No-one in the audience can afford the cars. I'm surprised manufacturers still lend them cars.

Think it was all to do with money. I believe they were paid less than Clarkson as this article shows.A couple of the James May shows have been interesting but i avoid the Hammond ones like the plague.


www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment...e-quit-13898833.html

One awaits the patronising answer: 'He's on a lot because programme makers and advertisers think he's very popular with certain demographics'. Duh, none of us knew it. But, yes, I find him not just irritating but a bit odd since he recovered from his accident - he used to look as well as sound like a local disc jockey made good, which I guess is what he is, but now he seems to think he needs to look as though he's in a boy band, which at his age is just naff.

I rather like him and his enthusiasm; he's like a puppy. But whilst I thought this series was going to be brilliant it's rather disappointed me.

I prefer James May over Hammond too. May's series with OZ Clarke where they travel the country boozing was hilarious.

Not being a viewer of Top Gear my main experience of Richard Hammond has been the Morrisons adverts. If not for his accident I wouldn't know who he was.