Dave Myers’ widow says she feels his spirit “everywhere” in their house. The popular TV chef died in February aged 66 after a two-year cancer fight that saw him lose his senses of taste and touch. But heartbroken Liliana Orzac says she doesn’t consider herself a widow and speaks to him every day.
She said: “Do you know we were together for 17 years, and in that time we never had the same meal twice. In the cupboard, I still have hundreds of jars of ingredients I don’t know how to use. “I don’t consider myself a widow.
.. I don’t like the word.
“I’m Dave’s wife. He’s still everywhere in our house. I talk to him all the time.
” Dave shot to fame as one half of telly double act The Hairy Bikers alongside his 57-year-old best pal Si King. He fell for Romanian Liliana in 2005 while they were filming the first Hairy Bikers series in Eastern Europe, and the pair married in 2011. Describing their home life, she said: “This was a man who was at his happiest around our table – in every house we lived in we had a huge table that seated around 10 or 12.
“He lit up a room anyway – the man burned with creativity, with interest in everyone – but his passion for life came through particularly when he was cooking for someone, for everyone.My husband served up love on a plate.” Liliana said watching Dave lose his sense of taste during his cancer fight was worse than him losing his hair, ability to walk and feeling in his fingertips.
She added: “Oh my God.