{"id":186559,"date":"2025-06-15T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186559\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:31:09","slug":"hairy-bikers-star-dave-myers-wife-lifts-lid-on-stars-final-months-of-cancer-battle-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186559\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers\u2019 wife lifts lid on star\u2019s final months of cancer battle | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Myers\u2019<\/a> wife Lili has opened up about his devastating cancer diagnosis and the final months of his life for the first time. The late Hairy Bikers<\/a> star died of cancer at the age of 66 last year after he received his diagnosis in 2022.<\/p>\n

Together, Myers and his Geordie duo Si King made countless BBC<\/a> shows that merged their shared love of cooking and motorbikes. Myers met Lili in Romania back in 2005 when the Hairy Bikers were in the country to film their debut series, The Hairy Bikers\u2019 Cookbook. In an excerpt from her new book, Dave and Me \u2013 published in the Daily Mail,<\/a> Lili wrote about the last months of Myers\u2019 life in 2024.<\/p>\n

Lili – who has been candid about her grief since his passing<\/a> – recalled: \u201cWe\u2019d hold hands and cry, sometimes unable to move or talk, just despairing at the unfairness of it all. I knew so well the depth of Dave\u2019s pain: the desperation, the helplessness, the anger.\u201d<\/p>\n

She recalled how \u201cdifficult\u201d Dave found it to love himself when undergoing chemotherapy, admitting: \u201cAs his treatment went on, Dave told me how difficult he found it to love himself when looking in the mirror. He felt reduced to being only a cancer patient, stripped of his image, identity, and personality, and with a face he didn\u2019t recognise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about her continuing grief, she wrote: \u201cEvery time I feel the pain ease a little and my balance doesn\u2019t seem quite so off-kilter, something comes out of nowhere to obliterate the stillness.<\/p>\n

\u201cA smell, a picture, something he touched, a song he loved, a feather landing at my feet. I guess I need to give it time. A lot of time. An eternity, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The widow confessed that sharing the devastating news with Dave’s best friend Si, who recently paid tribute to the chef on the one-year anniversary of his death<\/a> , was a “very hard, distressing conversation to have”.<\/p>\n

The grieving widow announced earlier this year that she had penned a memoir in a bid to honour the of the beloved TV chef. Announcing the new book, she said: \u201cThis past year has been incredibly challenging for me on many levels!!!<\/p>\n

“But guess what? I used all my creative side and honoured Dave by writing his story. Our story. \u2018Today is the reveal!!” The book delves deeper into her life with and without Dave as the widow shares her journey from meeting Dave to his tragic demise.<\/p>\n

Speaking previously to the Daily Mail, Lili confessed: \u201cThe truth is I do wish I\u2019d met Dave a lot earlier in my life and I do wish I\u2019d had more time to feel loved by him see how much happiness he brought into my world. Into the whole world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell myself it didn\u2019t matter how much I loved him or how much he wanted to live, it wasn\u2019t going to happen and so the \u2018why\u2019 questions are pointless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe longer you stay in the \u2018why\u2019 zone, the more prolonged the grief and the more complicated it becomes, so I\u2019m going to try instead to try instead to focus on the wonderful 20 years Dave gave me. But I will always wish we had met earlier in life. I wish, I wish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave and Me by Lili Myers will be published by Ebury Spotlight on June 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Myers\u2019 wife Lili has opened up about his devastating cancer diagnosis and the final months of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,75028,76482,77,76480,76485,76486,76487,76489,76488,76481,16,15,76483,76484],"class_list":{"0":"post-186559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dave-myers","10":"tag-dave-myers-cause-of-death","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hairy-bikers","13":"tag-hairy-bikers-carrot-cake","14":"tag-hairy-bikers-pans","15":"tag-hairy-bikers-pavlova","16":"tag-hairy-bikers-pie","17":"tag-hairy-bikers-spag-bol","18":"tag-si-king","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-what-cancer-did-dave-myers-die-of","22":"tag-what-type-of-cancer-did-dave-mysers-have"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114687868633306281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}