Hairy Bikers’ Si King vows to keep making TV shows to ‘look after legacy’ for Dave Myers-Asyia Iftikhar-Entertainment – Metro

Si King plans to continue his TV career in honour of late collaborator Dave Myers (Picture: Jon Boast/BBC/PA Wire)

The Hairy Bikers star Si King has shared that his late co-star and best friend, Dave Myers, was ‘adamant’ that he ‘honour the Bikers’ legacy’ on screen.

Myers died aged 66 in February this year after he was diagnosed with cancer.

And King made sure his memory was celebrated with Dave Day which saw 46,000 motorcyclists go on a 30-mile ride to pay tribute.

The profound procession took place in June and will be documented in BBC Two’s special, The Hairy Bikers: You’ll Never Ride Alone, which comes out later this month.

The TV presenter also opened up about the future of his career in the one-hour feature, as he emotionally reflected on ‘looking after [Dave’s] memory’ with any future programmes.

‘‘It’s important that I honour the Bikers’ legacy, and it’s important that I do stuff that I want to do still because Dave was very clear and adamant [that I did]. As I would want for him if the shoe was on the other foot,’ the 58-year-old said in the upcoming episode, per Daily Mail.

The new documentary special recounts the memorial day, alongside snippets from King (Picture: Jon Boast/BBC/PA Wire)

He clarified, however, that it would be ‘important’ for the nature of the shows to be very different’ as Hairy Bikers was ‘Dave and I’ who is ‘no longer with us’.

Before adding: ‘It’s my duty to look after his memory, to look after the legacy that he built, to look after the legacy of the Hairy Bikers.

‘Dave was a joyous man. He embraced and loved the life that he led, and that was enormously important to him. That was the essence of my best mate.’

Elsewhere in the show he speaks about Myers strength in the face of his diagnosis, and the ‘brotherhood’ that the duo shared.

The pair had a professional relationship that spanned almost 30 years and just as many TV series and specials together as they carved out their unique brand of biking and good food.

During the premiere of the documentary he told press: ‘I’m incredibly proud of the programme because it’s a tribute to my best mate.

‘Dave Day wasn’t so much cathartic, it just felt so celebratory of Dave’s life. It’s not often I’m lost for words but that day I seemed to be.’

King said that he ‘couldn’t believe the scale of the event’ and that it was a ‘beautiful day’.

Tens of thousands of bikers showed up for Dave Day (Picture: BBC/PA Wire)

The media personality has been candid about the grief he has faced since this immense loss.

In an appearance on This Morning in October he revealed that it is still difficult to come to terms with eight months on.

‘He was my best mate, and still is. That never goes, does it. It’s all a bit odd. The grieving process started a long time ago when he was diagnosed.

‘It was all about the fight and that’s what we concentrated on and that was easier in a way,’ he said around the release of their joint cookbook – one of their final projects together.

‘The amount of times I’ve gone “I’ve not heard from him!” and then realise…’

He continued: ‘It’s raw for anybody that loses somebody. Dave loved his life and lived it to the full and he was joyous to be around.

King has been candid about the difficult grieving process in various interviews over the months (Picture: BBC / THE ONE SHOW)

‘I had way less courage than he did. It was a heart and soul performance you always got from Dave, that was who he was.’

In a previous article with The Sunday Times, King admitted he had sometimes thought of just ‘jumping on his bike’ and riding ‘into the sunset’ to leave everything behind.

He then added: ‘He continued: ‘Other times I was raging. Raging at that bloody disease, at God and anything else I could think of. People were asking what I was going to do next.’

The TV Chef, Myers, shared his cancer diagnosis publicly in May 2022. At the time, following a brief break from work, he filmed his final Hairy Bikers series which stretched from Scotland to Devon.

The Hairy Bikers: You’ll Never Ride Alone will air on BBC Two on December 23 at 9pm and be available to catch up on BBC iPlayer.

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