Si King has admitted that putting together the latest Hairy Bikers cookbook without his best mate and co-star Dave Myers was a real challenge. Following Dave’s passing in February 2024 at the age of 66, Si was left with the difficult task of compiling The Best of the Hairy Bikers—a book that had to do justice to their decades-long partnership.
Speaking on The One Show on 12 March, Si opened up about the emotional process of deciding which recipes to include. “It was the most difficult process because we’ve got 30-odd books over 23 years of broadcasting and publishing,” he explained. “We started at 1200 and then we got stuck at 600 and then we got down to 400, then 250, and I just went to the publishers, ‘It’s got to be 250 pages.’ And they went, ‘No, you have got to get it down to 100.’”
