Richard Hammond NOT dead. Still likes Celery.

Photo Richard Hammon Motor Bike Mozambique

It seems Richard Hammond is still alive and kicking despite bike crash in Mozambique

Reports by Jeremy Clarkson that Richard Hammond has been seriously injured filming the Grand Tour in Mozambique are apparently not quite true.

Although filming Top Gear and The Grand Tour looks like a jolly jape most of the time, the trio of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have all suffered the odd physical injury or two over the years.

Of course, being a presenter on Top Gear and The Grand Tour is not quite in the same danger league as being an F1 driver, piloting a fighter jet in a war zone or being a fire-fighter, although Richard Hammond has damaged himself the most in his efforts to grab the right shot.

Back in 2006 he managed to crash at 300mph in the jet powered Vampire Dragster at RAF Elvington in Yorkshire after a front tyre burst, tipping him over and dragging his head along the ground. Unsurprisingly, he suffered severe head injuries.

Thankfully Hammond recovered, although he does say the one lingering change is a love of celery, something he wouldn’t have in the house prior to the accident.

So when Jeremy Clarkson said at the weekend that Hammond had been badly hurt in a motorbike accident in Mozambique, it caused much concern, especially as the accident happened in the middle of nowhere and Hammond was knocked unconscious.

But within 24 hours Hammond had taken to Twitter to assure one and all he wasn’t actually dead, and although he bruised everything that could be bruised, filming could go on and we’d all find out what happened when the next series of The Grand Tour arrives.

So, was Hammond really hurt, or was Clarkson looking for Grand Tour headlines to show Matt LeBlanc’s Top Gear that Clarkson, Hammond and May are still the daddies?