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

In a press release shared on X, BBC Food wrote: “We are so sad to hear that Dave Myers from The Hairy Bikers has passed away at the age of 66. He was an incredible man and a talented chef. Sending all our love to Si King, Dave’s wife Lili, family and close friends, from everyone at BBC Food.”

Liliana then broke her silence, sharing a Facebook put up of a collection of images of Myers, with the phrases: “Rest in peace, my love.”

“My wonderful, brave man! Till next time we meet!”

When Myers introduced his most cancers analysis in March 2022, he didn’t need to specify the kind of most cancers he had as a result of he felt as although the general public would possibly begin drawing conclusions about his well being.

Myers advised The Guardian in 2022 that he determined to not disclose what sort of most cancers he had “because everybody then goes Googling, everybody becomes an amateur doctor… And I don’t want to be judged – yet.”

Myers’s spouse Liliana has paid tribute to her late husband in a put up on-line.

Sharing a collection of images of Myers to Facebook, she wrote: “Rest in peace, my love. My wonderful, brave man! Till next time we meet!”

Myers and his co-star King have been praised for shaping cookery reveals on the flip of the century.

TV author Stuart Heritage has praised the pair for shifting portrayals of masculinity on display screen, too.

Heritage writes in The Guardian about how the biking duo entered TV cooking at a time when Gordon Ramsay was “screaming at celebrities on Hell’s Kitchen and swaggering around like a concussed Liam Gallagher on The F Word.”

“To cook on television at this time, especially as a man, meant leaping through millions of reductive macho hoops to show how tough you were.”

“[They] were sensitive, erudite and boundlessly enthusiastic. They weren’t just unfailingly polite to their host countries, but the ease with which they could access their emotions felt genuinely groundbreaking for the time.”

Ricky Minns, 49, has created a muddy portrait of Myers and his on-display screen associate Si King after listening to the information of Myers’s dying.

Minns, who creates artwork utilizing mud, wiped away muck from his van to attract their faces.

Sharing an image of his creation to X/Twitter, Minns wrote: “Such sad news. Did this as soon as I heard. Was quite a quick one as raining and cold but I had to do it.”

“To one of the wonderful @HairyBikers from one of the Hairy Artists.”

Media persona Rusell Grant has remembered Myers as “gentle and kind”.

“I worked with the Hairy Bikers on a BBC Christmas special, they were so welcoming and a joy to film with. At only 66 Dave Myers has left us,” wrote Grant on X/Twitter.

“He was gentle and kind: I followed his Strictly appearances as a friend. Sending love to Si who must be devastated and those close to him.”