BBC Hairy Bikers Si King in emotional update on final project with Dave Myers

Si King on This Morning
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Hairy Bikers star Si King shared an emotional update on his final project with Dave Myers. The TV chef died in February, less than two years after revealing his cancer diagnosis in May 2022.

Best friend Si shared the heartbreaking news of Dave's death in a message on social media. He confirmed that he, Dave's wife Liliana Orzac, family, and a close friend were all by his side when he died on February 28 at the age of 66.

Appearing today on ITV daytime show This Morning, Si revealed that before Dave's death, the pair had been working on a new book, The Hairy Bikers: Our Family Favourites. Si was encouraged by their publishers to finish it, to which he agreed.

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Si said: “This one was slightly different because it’s the recipes that stuck with us - to put in context we roughly did 650,000 miles of travelling over 22 years in the saddle of a motorcycle. So, this book is about all the recipes that stuck with us because when those recipes stay with you it becomes really nostalgic and it triggered conversations and memories that we’d had, it was lovely.”

Si added: “Unfortunately, Dave passed before we finished the book, but thank you to our publishers that they had faith in us to say, ‘You must finish it’ and I really really wanted to just as a mark of respect for my best mate and also it’s about legacy.

"It was about looking after that legacy and treating it with the respect it deserves.”