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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lauren Del Fabbro

Hairy Bikers star Si King says he felt ‘sense of guilt’ on return to television for a solo show

Dave Myers and Si King - (BBC/South Shore Productions/Jon Boast)

Hairy Bikers star Si King has revealed he felt a "sense of guilt" upon his return to television for a solo show, following the death of his beloved co-star, David "Dave" Myers. Myers, who achieved widespread fame alongside King on the BBC's popular cooking and motorcycling series, passed away at 66 in 2024 after a cancer diagnosis. King described the experience of filming his first independent venture, Channel 4’s Top of the Stops, without his lifelong friend and colleague as an "odd experience".

Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the presenter said: “The first year, I didn’t want to do anything at all, I just didn’t have it in me and then when I was shooting the show, I felt a sense of guilt that I was doing something that when he wasn’t there,

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