Dave Myers
(Picture: Twitter)Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers has appeared in a video for the first time since revealing he has cancer and he is undergoing chemotherapy.
The 64-year-old TV chef, who found fame alongside friend and fellow chef Si King, quipped his wife Liliana likened him to Hollywood actor Stanley Tucci.
Speaking on their podcast, Hairy Bikers - Agony Uncles podcast, he said: “Thank you to everyone who has sent in a goodwill message to me. I do appreciate the good thoughts. I’ll get there. As you can see, I’ve embraced the baldness.
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“I looked at my wife and she said, "You look like Stanley Tucci who’s been sleeping behind the library for a month." As a great fan of Stanley Tucci, I’ve embraced that. I quite like it really. I’ve got the beard. Nice, fresh for the summer.”
He shared a clip on Twitter from the podcast in which he jokes about a past skiing trip to Switzerland that he had enjoyed “on the cheap”.
“Years ago I went skiing in Switzerland but I used to do it on the cheap, I used to stay in a bunk house so it was posh skiing,” he said.
“You’d have loved it, Tash, but it was on the cheap. And I ended up with a German police woman! She was strong, a strong lady.”
Previously, Myers joked he may be a “baldy biker” for a while as he undergoes chemotherapy.
The Hairy Biker star said: “I’ve got to come clean now, I haven’t been too well recently. Basically, I’ve got to have some chemo... so this year is going to be a bit quiet for me.”
He added: “I have had to speak up about this because I don’t want to hide under a rock.
“But I would love it if people respected my privacy and just let me get on with it and give Si and our team all the support they need... But look, the prognosis is OK, I’m going to be fine.”
He did not specify the type of cancer he is battling.
Myers added: “I’ve just got to tuck in, look after myself, eat sensibly and get over this mess, flog books, and be a happy person so, within that, that’s where I am. I may be a baldy biker for a while so it’s just a warning, I don’t want to make a fuss about it.”
After his co-host King, 55, joked he looked “cool” bald, Myers replied: “Yeah I know, and under different circumstances I would embrace it more.
“But I feel under these circumstances it’s simply something I have to live with.”
Myers has previously spoken about his health struggles, including a cyst on his brain and discovering he had glaucoma - an eye condition that can lead to blindness.
In 2018, he said he had completely changed his lifestyle after doctors warned both he and King were “morbidly obese” and “heading for an early grave”.
