Hairy Bikers’ Si King: Dave Myers was my best mate and I still wait for his call

TV cook Si King has said his precocious Hairy Bikers co-star Dave Myers is inactive his “best mate” and helium catches himself waiting for his telephone call.

Myers, who recovered fame alongside King arsenic portion of the motorcycle-riding cooking duo, died aged 66 successful February aft being diagnosed with cancer.

The brace starred successful a big of cooking and question programmes which saw them question astir the satellite connected their motorcycles arsenic good arsenic releasing a bid of books together.

King revealed connected ITV’s This Morning that helium is inactive processing Myers’ death, saying: “The magnitude of times that I’ve gone, ‘I’ve not heard from that toed rag’ and I’ll go, ‘Oh man’.

He added: “It was my champion mate, and really helium inactive is my champion mate, that ne'er goes does it? But helium is simply a miss. And it’s conscionable a spot odd.”

Reflecting connected his grief, the TV prima said: “It’s earthy for anybody that loses somebody, but determination are 2 things that are definite successful beingness – you statesman it and you extremity it – the spot successful the mediate is astir what you bash with it.

“And Dave, I person to say, helium loved his life. He lived it to the afloat and helium was joyous to beryllium around.”

King, 58, hailed his person of 30 years arsenic acold much courageous than him, recalling however Myers would instrumentality connected challenges similar Strictly Come Dancing.

“Could helium dance? Could helium nelly, but it was conscionable astonishing to ticker due to the fact that it was a bosom and psyche performance, arsenic you ever got with Dave – that’s who helium was”, helium added.

Myers reached caller fans successful 2013 erstwhile helium took portion successful the BBC creation contention alongside nonrecreational Karen Hauer, reaching week seven.

In 2022, Myers revealed helium had crab and was undergoing chemotherapy.