A spokeswoman for the corporation would not comment on the amount, but confirmed that he had agreed a two-year contract before the crash.
It was reported today that Hammond had signed a new £2m deal with the BBC. He said he had no recollection of doing that, adding that his condition had deteriorated sharply soon afterwards. Hammond said he realised that the accident put Top Gear under scrutiny because of the risks he and his co-presenters, Jeremy Clarkson and James May, take.Īt the time of the crash, it was reported that he had spoken immediately afterwards, telling emergency workers he needed to film a piece to camera.
The paper's reporter Victoria Ward told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was clearly still coming to terms with what had happened and would become quieter when the accident was mentioned. Today's Mirror publishes new pictures of a remarkably well-looking Hammond with his wife, Mindy, and daughters, Izzy and Willow. I was that close to being dead." He added he was amazed that he had not needed brain surgery. I may have been dead, I may not have woken up," he said. He told the Mirror surgeons had considered drilling a "bore hole" to drain the blood from his brain and relieve the swelling, but it had ultimately been decided that the operation would not be necessary. He was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary, where it was found he had suffered a significant brain injury. The Vampire jet car crash happened on Hammond's final run of a day of filming at Elvington airfield, near York. "My mind was like a foreign place, nothing in it but blankness." He spoke of suffering "sharp, jagged, pointy pain", for which he was given morphine. "I felt mad as a bag of snakes," he said.
The presenter is recovering from a brain injury that caused short-term memory loss and, in the early stages of his recovery, caused him to regress to a childlike state in which he became obsessed with Lego and the card game Top Trumps.
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