The Hairy Bikers’ Dave Myers enjoys dinner with co-star Si King after cancer diagnosis

Dave Myers was in good spirits on Tuesday evening as he headed out for dinner with his Hairy Bikers sidekick Si King.

In his first public outing since revealing his cancer diagnosis in May and quipping about his new ‘baldy biker’ standing, Dave beamed for the cameras in London’s Fitzrovia.

Dave introduced final month that he’s present process chemotherapy, and shall be taking a while off work with his co-star Si. 

The long-term pals and colleagues smiled as they strolled to a neighborhood restaurant.

On Sunday the pair took half within the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, using on high of one of many National Treasures buses via London. 

The giddy duo shared a snap of themselves exterior Buckingham Palace, telling their Instagram followers: ‘What an excellent weekend we had! We may do it over again, so when’s the following one?’

Last month Si dominated out making reveals with out his fellow prepare dinner whereas he undergoes remedy.

Speaking to The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden on the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drinks Awards on the Royal Exchange in London, the Geordie TV star mentioned: ‘There’s no [Punch & Judy] present with out Punch and there is not any Hairy Bikers with out Dave’.

Si, 55, accepted the Personality Of The Year award, which had been voted by the general public, on behalf of the duo. He was accompanied to the ceremony by Dave’s Romanian spouse, Liliana Orzac.

He added: ‘We’ve all the time been joined on the hip, so it is very odd for me and it is very odd for Dave. We’ll get via it — he is as powerful as an previous boot.’

For now, Si plans to hit the highway not for meals however his music band Little Moscow.

‘I’ve a 12-piece funk band which takes up a number of time. We’re on tour all year and can lengthen our keep in Spain.’

It comes after Dave gave his first interview since present process chemotherapy after revealing he had been identified with cancer earlier in May – taking a playful strategy to dub his return the ‘debut of the baldy biker’.

The chef, 64, seemed to be in excessive spirits regardless of his well being woes – and even obtained advised off by his spouse Liliana for a cheeky jibe throughout an episode of his Agony Uncles podcast.

Proudly exhibiting his bald head, he quipped that his TV presenter associate likened him to ‘Stanley Tucci who’s been sleeping behind the library for a month’ whereas chatting to Si.

Dave just lately advised how he has cancer and is at present present process chemotherapy, vowing: ‘I’ll recover from this.’

Dave, who married spouse Lily in 2011 after the pair met whereas he was filming The Hairy Bikers in Romania, has chosen to not publicly reveal the kind of cancer he has. 

The star, who competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, revealed ‘I have never been too nicely just lately’ and ‘this year is a write off’, while reassuring followers ‘the prognosis is okay.’

Speaking about his medical situation with his TV cooking associate and Hairy Biker different half, Si he mentioned: ‘I could also be a baldy biker for some time… it is merely one thing I’ve to stay with.’

Dave mentioned: ‘Anyway Kingy, I’ve obtained to come back clear now, I have never been too nicely just lately and mainly, I’ve obtained to have some chemo, you realize all this anyway, so this year goes to be a bit quiet for me, I’m not going to be filming, among the festivals I’m not going to have the ability to go to, some could also be okay however this year’s a little bit of a write off for us.

‘I’ve needed to converse up about this as a result of I do not wish to cover beneath a rock, however I might adore it if folks revered my privateness and simply let me get on with it and provides Si and our crew all of the assist they want, that might be nice. But look, the prognosis is okay, I’m going to be tremendous.’

He continued: ‘I’ve simply obtained to tuck in, look after myself, eat sensibly and recover from this mess, flog books, and be a contented particular person so inside that, that is the place I’m.

‘I could also be a baldy biker for some time so it is only a warning, I do not wish to make a fuss about it, I look alright bald really.’

Talking on their podcast The Hairy Bikers – Agony Uncles, Si replied: ‘No pay attention, after I first met you dude you seemed like an the wrong way up Hells Angel so I like that look, I’ve all the time favored that look, you look cool’ with Dave saying: ‘Yeah I do know, and beneath completely different circumstances I might embrace it extra however I really feel beneath these circumstances it is merely one thing I’ve to stay with.’

In 2018, the TV chef, whose new ebook Simply Healthy Food is out on May 12, spoke about overhauling his life-style, after being warned by docs when he weighed 18 stone that he was ‘heading for an early grave.’

He mentioned: ‘I used to be a Northern carbohydrate monster who was morbidly overweight six years in the past and weighed over 18 stone. Si and I have been warned we have been morbidly overweight and heading for an early grave, so our weight reduction saved our lives.

‘I’m 6ft, now round 15 stone and intention to drop to 14 stone. I cycle, jog, and eat as healthily as attainable. I’d by no means have managed to participate in Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 if I hadn’t obtained wholesome.’

Dave has suffered with sickness up to now after being identified with a cyst on his brain in 1998, and later glaucoma, which is a watch situation that may result in blindness. 

He admits worrying about his well being has impacted his psychological wellbeing through the years after enduring the lack of each his mother and father by the point he was simply 23.

Dave’s dad died from a stroke and his mum a number of sclerosis, inflicting him to ‘hate something to do with sickness.’

The identical year he was identified with having a cyst on his brain, Dave sadly lost his fiancée to cancer, beforehand describing 1998 because the worst year of his life. 

In celebration of his weight reduction, Dave competed in Strictly with professional associate Karen Hauer, 40, and mentioned as soon as he was eradicated it had been a ‘spectacular privilege’ to participate. 

Dave met greatest buddy and co-star Si in 1995 and collectively the duo have gained tens of millions of followers via their well-liked BBC cookery sequence and books, in addition to their