Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has shared how he was on the brink of tears when his daughter realised that his day-to-day activities were actually his job.
During a Father's Day Special for his Who We Are Now podcast, Richard revealed that his daughter Izzy has followed in his footsteps into the media industry.
He reminisced about a moment when they were walking home after Izzy had participated in a Drive Tribe shoot and she made the connection about his profession.
"She just turned to me and said Daddy...it's work isn't it? 'And I said "yeah, and I've been doing it for 25 years. I wasn't just messing around having fun It meant something to me'," he recalled.
He further explained that due to the potentially dangerous nature of many of his work activities, Izzy had been "kept out of the loop" and not fully informed about what he was doing.
Izzy, who was born in 2001, was still very young when Richard experienced a devastating accident while filming for Top Gear at the former RAF Elvington airfield near York.
He was driving a 370mph jet-Vampire dragster when one of the tyres failed, causing the car to spin out of control. As the destroyed dragster rolled over, Richard's helmet became lodged in the ground, flipping the visor up and forcing large amounts of soil into his mouth and nose.
He sustained injuries to his left eye but the most alarming part of the crash was that he was left with amnesia. Just three months after his harrowing accident, he confidently told Jonathan Ross on his show that he was "absolutely fixed". However, in a stark revelation to the Mirror in 2011, he admitted: "I lost a year. I don't remember doing the interview with Jonathan Ross or doing Top Gear Live in South Africa."
Now grown up, Izzy has come to terms with the extent of her father's injuries and the dangers he faced during his daring Top Gear challenges, reports Birmingham Live.
"We were never told where he was going," she disclosed. "When you're young, you can't really register that anyway, it was just 'Daddy's going to work."