TV presenter Richard Hammond says he had to "bring out the big guns", or his mum, at his car workshop, the focus of his new TV show.
The documentary series follows his real-life car restoration venture, The Smallest Cog, in Herefordshire.
Hammond, from Solihull, said he knew about cars, drove them round race tracks and had run production firms, but when it came to managing the workshop, he said: "I'm outside my comfort zone".
Describing his mother as "terrifying", he said: "I couldn't get the lads to fill in their timesheets which I absolutely need…and I just couldn't get them to do it - so I brought her in. She's only tiny but she did [it], they listened to her, so they do it now."
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