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Hamilton Wessels (born on 14 November 1986) is a South African actor, singer, director, artist director, and television host.

Early Years
Hamilton Wessels or as his friends call him, Hammie, was born in Kroonstad 1986 and grew up on a farm with the name of Hamiltonsrust. He matriculated at Hoerskool Strand in 2004 and studied Education from 2006-2009 at the University of Pretoria, Groenkloof. After University he went on to play Premiere league Rugby in Canada with the Vancouver Rowing Club in 2010.

He began playing drums at university in 2007 for his brother Robbie Wessels who then played the bass guitar.

In 2015 he took a break from his personal music career and began focusing on his business with the help of his sister Annarie Hugo. The business, Vocal Events, managed different music artists careers such as Ricus Nel, Dewald Wasserfall, Appel, Danny Smoke, Monique Steyn, Liza Bronner, Prop, Reën Rooksein along with die Toks n Tjops Road Show.

Public Life
Hamilton began his acting career in 2006 where he played his first role in Poena is Koning, playing a character named Mateo. He later also went on to act in films such as “100m Leeuloop” and “Durban Poison”.

In 2017 he discovered his love for TV and became the host of a scholastic rugby program on Kyknet called VirsekerBeker.

In 2018 Hamilton was approached by Select Musiek and was offered a record deal to sing under the name of “Hammie”. He released his first single “Bruce Lee” which has since then gained over 110 000 views on youtube.

Hamilton was assigned in 2019 as Kyknet's World Cup host in a new series by the name of “In Japan Ja" alongside Vanes-Marie Du Toit. Hamilton and Vanes-Mari believe strongly that the reason the springboks won the worldcup was because with every game they full heartedly supported the players in the stadiums in Japan.

During the beginning of 2020, Kyknet started a new music program called “Kom ons Jol” and believed that Hamilton was the right person to present it.

2022 also held great entertainment in the form of Plan Van Aksie a television program that focuses on home redecorating projects.

Personal Life
Hamilton was married to the beautiful Chandre in May 2013, and together they welcomed their little boy Johannes-Joe on the 07 April 2019 and their little girl Anna-May on the 05 April 2022.