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

Myers said he did not want to specify the type of cancer he had because he felt as though the public might start drawing conclusions about his health.

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

“I only met Dave once & he was so full of love for the world. Rest In Peace Kind Man,” wrote Vorderman.

She praised King’s “beautiful post” about his best friend Myers.

Media personality 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.”

Ricky Minns, 49, has created a muddy portrait of Myers and his on-screen partner Si King after hearing the news of Myers’s death.

Minns, who creates art using mud, wiped away muck from his van to draw their faces.

Sharing a picture 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.”

Throughout his cancer treatment, Myers continued to share candid details about his health in several episodes of their series, but decided he would never publicly reveal what type of cancer he was diagnosed with, because he worried the public might start drawing conclusions about his health.

He told The Guardian in 2022 that he had never announced which type “because everybody then goes Googling, everybody becomes an amateur doctor… And I don’t want to be judged – yet.”

The University of Central Lancashire, where Dave Myers studied in the 70s paid tribute.

The statement read: “We’re very saddened to hear that Honorary Fellow and @UCLanAlumni Dave Myers has passed away. Known as one of the iconic Hairy Bikers duo, Dave studied with us in the 70s, before going on to become a BAFTA nominated TV chef!”

Dave Myers’s Strictly Come Dancing dance partner Karen Hauer replied to the Hairy Bikers’ Instagram post announcing Myers‘s death, commenting: “Heartbroken” with a broken heart emoji.

Food critic Jay Rayner wrote on X/Twitter: “This is very sad news. Dave was a brilliant cook, a superb communicator and most of all a seriously lovely man.”

“My thoughts are with his family and of course Si.”