Dave Myers – updates: Si King leads tributes as Hairy Bikers stars dies aged 66

Charlotte Moore, Chief Content material Officer on the BBC, stated that the general public cherished Myers.

Moore stated in an announcement: “Everybody on the BBC is extremely unhappy to listen to this information.”

“Dave made cooking a really joyful journey and he shared that pleasure with hundreds of thousands. The general public cherished him and his distinctive partnership with Si. Collectively they made each viewer really feel like a pal. Greater than that he was merely a stunning man. Our ideas exit to his household and lots of associates.”

Presenters Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones had been visibly emotional as they paid tribute to Myers.

Taking a deep breath, Jones learn out an announcement from the Furry Bikers star’s household,

He stated: “We’ve met Dave so many occasions and he was simply such a stunning smiley individual.”

Marsh added: “He was such a stunning human being.”

The Furry Bikers met on the set of TV drama The Playing Man in 1995 and shaped a detailed private {and professional} relationship.

“At lunch many of the crew had been ordering salads and mineral water on the native pub, whereas I used to be having a curry and two pints of bigger.” King instructed The Unbiased.

“When Dave got here in he took one take a look at my lunch and went, ‘I’ll have what he’s having!’ Fairly shortly we found that we each cherished consuming, consuming and motorcycling.”

Chef and presenter Matt Tebbutt has stated Dave Myers was “at all times a pleasure” to have cooking on Saturday Kitchen.

In an Instagram publish, the host of BBC present wrote: “One of many good guys, critically humorous, genuinely good and at all times a pleasure to have him and Si on the present.

“It goes with out saying that he shall be sorely missed.”

Meals critic Jay Rayner wrote on X/Twitter: “That is very unhappy information. Dave was an excellent prepare dinner, an excellent communicator and most of all a critically pretty man.”

“My ideas are along with his household and naturally Si.”

“Everybody at The One Present is deeply saddened to listen to the information that Dave Myers of the Furry Bikers has died. Our ideas exit to his associates, household and his many followers, who will miss him vastly.”

He defined he was nonetheless present process therapy for most cancers and he had devoted recipes of their new guide to the nurses who had cared for him.

All through his most cancers therapy, Myers continued to share candid particulars about his well being, however determined he would by no means publicly disclose what kind of most cancers he was recognized with.

He instructed The Guardian in 2022 that he had by no means introduced which sort “as a result of all people then goes Googling, all people turns into an beginner physician… And I don’t need to be judged – but.”

Dave Myers’s Strictly Come Dancing dance accomplice Karen Hauer replied to the Furry Bikers’ Instagram publish saying Myers‘s loss of life, commenting: “Heartbroken” with a damaged coronary heart emoji.

On an episode of BBC comedy panel present Would I Lie To You?, Myers revealed that he was trapped in a service provider financial institution whereas a safety guard on the age of twenty-two.

He stated he ended up shut in there from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day night in 1980 as a result of there was no aid and he was not given the keys for the financial institution.

Whereas showing on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, Myers and King struggled to get a fruit pudding out of dish.

And regardless of Myers slamming the bowl down on the desk just a few occasions and King stepping in to assist, the pudding got here out collapsed.

He joked: “Typically it simply relaxes, a bit like when my spouse takes her Spanx off.”

Whereas laughing on air, they tried to avoid wasting the pudding by placing some berries and herbs on for adornment.

Singing Bat Out Of Hell for Youngsters In Want

In 2010, Myers and King did a rendition of the Meat Loaf observe for charity.

Each alternating between dressing in black and white fits and soiled white aprons they carried out Bat Out Of Hell in a restaurant, to boost cash for Youngsters In Want.

Identified for his or her motorbikes, the pair would usually grace the units of TV studios by driving in.

In 2016, they shocked the then This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield with bikes within the studio hallway earlier than leaving their helmets and jackets littered across the ITV daytime programme’s couch.

Dragging Karen Hauer on the bottom throughout Strictly Come Dancing

Whereas competing on the BBC dance present in 2013, Myers did a cha cha routine to Maroon 5 tune Strikes Like Jagger.

Doing exaggerated strikes in a flamboyant silver shirt, he took skilled Karen Hauer by the leg and pulled her alongside the dancefloor.

His energetic dances had been memorable for his or her exuberance and then-judge Bruno Tonioli praised him for being “entertaining” however he ended up being booted off whereas doing a tango to I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers half means via the collection.