Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond presented and narrated Total Wipeout for the original five series and Winter Wipeout. He also presented several other shows for the BBC, such as Richard Hammond's Blast Lab, Top Gear, Richard Hammond's Invisible World's and Braniac: Science Abuse.

Unlike his co-host, Amanda Byram, Hammond did not travel to Argentina with the contestants; instead, he filmed his sections in a studio in the UK. He plays the role of a 'commentator' as opposed to an integrated part of the show; the first time he was mentioned within the show was in the Champion of Champions episode of Series 3, when contestant Ed 'Scissorhands' remarked 'Richard Hammond, if I get across this I'm coming to cut your hair!'

Hammond has travelled to Argentina on a small number of occasions; in Series 2 he filmed a sequence of 'documentary' pieces relating to the course, which were shown within the episodes of the series, and also appeared in the celebrity specials of that series, where he filmed the studio sequences live from the course.

He is constantly laughing and finds strange shapes in slow-mo replays of people falling off things. In series 3: The Final, three people make a 'Chair in the Air' falling off the Big Balls - this shape is caused when they bend their knees up on the way down. He shows these strange shapes using telestrations.