The Hairy Bikers
The Hairy Bikers are David Myers and Simon King, two northern blokes with a passion for cooking and food. The pair began their TV careers working behind the scenes, Si as a first assistant director and locations manager for film and television and Dave as a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ make-up artist specialising in prosthetics. It was on the set of a TV drama that they first met and became friends.
The cooks first appeared in front of the camera for their pilot Hairy Bikers series, filmed in Portugal. No strangers to travel before they started working together, the lads embraced the opportunity to seek out new dishes from around the globe when their show took off. Since then, they’ve travelled to Namibia, India, Vietnam, Argentina and Mexico as well as sampling the cuisines of places nearer to home, such as Ireland and the Isle of Man.
They went on to have an extensive career in television, making 26 programmes for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, plus many more appearances in other food programmes. They also had enormous publishing success with more than 30 recipe books to their name, selling more than six million copies.
In February 2024 Dave Myers passed away after a long battle with cancer.
