Hairy Bikers’ Si King says friendship with late Dave Myers ‘will never die’

Si King has opened up successful his archetypal TV interrogation since his Hairy Bikers co-star and lifelong person Dave Myers died astatine the property of 66 successful February.

The 58-year-old is releasing his and Myers’ cookbook – The Hairy Bikers: Our Family Favourites – 8 months aft his friend’s death, and portion talking astir it connected The One Show this evening, helium said their relationship volition ne'er die.

Myers died 2 years aft announcing that helium was undergoing chemotherapy for an unspecified strain of cancer.

‘It’s the publication that Dave and I started earlier helium passed,’ said Si connected the BBC show.

‘I truly wanted to decorativeness it successful his honour. It’s each those recipes that person stuck with america passim the years.’

Over 20 years, the iconic duo biked crossed the state and satellite sharing their lukewarm relationship and communal emotion of nutrient with the world, starring successful implicit 30 TV bid and specials unneurotic during their partnership.

‘Just due to the fact that Dave’s passed it doesn’t halt you being a friend. The tone of our narration volition ever beryllium there,’ Si said of his life-long pal, earlier explaining however important nutrient is to humanity and relationship arsenic a societal glue.

When asked however helium was, Si replied: ‘It’s been a large loss, I’m coping okay, convey you. It’s a large adjustment. I cognize Dave would person wanted maine to support pushing on.

‘I privation to look aft the bequest we built due to the fact that I deliberation it deserves the respect Dave and myself enactment into it.

‘There volition beryllium immoderate pastures caller that volition travel my mode I’m sure.’

Earlier this period Si wrote an nonfiction for The Sunday Times, revealing that grief near him connected the verge of ‘jumping connected my bike’ and leaving it each behind.

‘I’ll beryllium honorable with you, the past fewer months person been a struggle,’ helium wrote.

‘More than erstwhile I was connected the verge of jumping connected my motorcycle and heading into the sunset. Not archer anyone wherever I was going. Just wide disconnected and ne'er travel back,’ helium said.

He continued: ‘Other times I was raging. Raging astatine that bloody disease, astatine God and thing other I could deliberation of. People were asking what I was going to bash next.

‘The reply is I americium going to instrumentality immoderate clip to bespeak connected the beingness I had with my champion mate, and deliberation astir moving forwards.

Si announced Myers’ decease connected societal media successful a heartbreaking connection which said helium couldn’t ‘put into words’ however helium was feeling.

‘My champion person is connected a travel that for now, I can’t follow. I volition miss him each time and the enslaved and relationship we shared implicit fractional a lifetime,’ helium said.

The One Show airs connected BBC One astatine 7pm each weekday.

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