Richard Hammond says Top Gear's success was product of 'different time'

• Richard Hammond has suggested there might no longer be a public “appetite” for Top Gear if the hit motoring show were launched in its original format today.
• Hammond presented the BBC series alongside Jeremy Clarkson and James May between 2002 and 2015 before the trio departed.
• Top Gear went on hiatus in 2022 following a near-fatal accident involving presenter Andrew Flintoff, but the BBC plans to reboot the show.
• Hammond said that it was “a little insight into the way the average male brain works”, and he is not sure if the public would go for such a show today, saying: “It’s a completely different time.”
• He also said that it would be good to see women on shows like Top Gear , as “TV has a role to play in representation”.

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