Dave Myer's widow says she watched Hairy Bikers star 'die over couple of years' in heartbreaking interview

The widow of beloved Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers has told how she misses her husband 'terribly' following his sad death earlier this year. The TV chef died in February, just under two years after he revealed he’d been diagnosed with cancer in May 2022.

Best friend Si announced the sad news of Dave's death in a heartbreaking message shared on social media, in which he confirmed he, Dave's wife Liliana Orzac, his family and close friend David were all by his side as he sadly passed on February 28, aged 66.

Speaking months after his death, Lili spoke about how he had wooed her sandwich after the pair first met while he was filming his Hairy Bikers cookery show in Romania. She met Dave in 2006 while he and Si King were filming part of their first series, The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook where she had been helping with the production.

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The pair wrote emails to each other over the years while Dave travelled before they were finally able to reconnect at his home in Barrow, where he whipped her up a sandwich. They later married in Barrow in 2011.

Speaking about Dave's ill health before his death, Lili told BBC Radio Cumbria: "I wasn't an easy period of time. I've watched this man die for a couple of years, every day, little by little."

Despite being sick, Dave continued to film episodes of the Hairy Bikers between his chemotherapy sessions and Lili told how she had encouraged him to keep working on the programme because 'it was his life'.

She explained that no matter what he was going through, Dave, whom she described as being 'larger