Yahoo News Hairy Biker Dave Myers put 'all his soul' into humble first meal he cooked beloved wife
The heartbroken widow of Hairy Biker Dave Myers has said she misses her husband 'terribly' two months after his death.
Lili Myers met Dave in 2006, and described him as 'larger than life' in an interview with BBC Radio Cumbria. The hugely popular TV chef died, from Barrow, aged 66 in February after battling cancer. He passed away with his wife by his side. He was best-known as one of the Hairy Bikers, along with pal Si King.
Lili was talking ahead of Dave Day on June 8, when thousands of bikers will travel from London to Myers's home town of Barrow, raising money for charity.
"He was the same person on and off screen," Lili said. "Larger than life. I miss him terribly now. I miss that energy."
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She admitted that the final stages of Dave's life were tough. Myers somehow found the strength to continue filming - something Lili said left her 'in awe'. Lili would drive him to filming before going on to hospital for chemotherapy. She he said she had encouraged him to keep shooting the series because 'it was his life', adding that they had 'made the most of every day' together.
"It wasn't an easy period of time," she said. "I've watched this man die for a couple of years, every day, little by little," she said.
She added that she had not watched the last episode of the Hairy Bikers, because it had been aired on a day when she was celebrating Myers with friends and family.
"I want to remember the man as he is," she said. The pair met in Romania while they were filming their first series, The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook, in 2006. A Romanian producer had apparently let them down so Lili stepped in to help.
They stayed in touch afterwards, with Dave emailing her from exotic locations around the world until they were finally able to reconnect at his home in Barrow.
"I got these beautiful emails from exotic parts of the world, talking to me about the culture, about the food, about the people that he met and that was magical for me," she said. "It was seeing the world through his eyes. He was a genuinely beautiful man, beautiful soul, and it came across in his emails."
Upon her return, he cooked her a meal. "He put all his soul into that sandwich," Lili said. They married in Barrow in 2011.
"He made the most of every moment, and that's what I have learned from him," Lili said.
