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Richard Hammond didn't seem to enjoy his grilling on This Morning earlier today.

Presenter Phillip Schofield was desperate to get to the bottom of rumours surrounding the financial backing of the Top Gear star's new Amazing Prime motoring show.

However, Jeremy Clarkson's pal was refusing to give anything away.

"I've heard your new show has a massive budget," stated Phillip. "I've heard that there is allegedly £4.5million being invested..."

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However, Richard was clearly desperate to steer away from the subject.

"Well I've heard that I'm allegedly short," he joked. "I've read that myself in the papers. Can you believe it?"

Unimpressed, Phillip then tried to quiz Richard again about recent money rumours.

But he refused to spill the beans: "Look, what we made before was expensive. What we are making next is going to be expensive.

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"The real value in TV is the ideas behind a show.

"I think we have been given an amazing opportunity to be involved in another motoring show. It's a chance to reinvent what we do and we are all feeling so charged.

"We are so lucky to have given this chance at this stage in our careers. It's joyous."

Richard then looked up at Phillip and seemed to notice he wasn't happy with his answers.

So he added: "It's not that I don't want to talk about the show right now. It's just that we've got our heads down and we're still working on things."