EXCLUSIVE My Hairy Biker served up love on a plate. In her first interview since TV chef's death of cancer, Dave Myers' wife tells how he wooed her - and reveals she still talks to him every day By Jenny Johnston Published: 01:55 BST, 10 August 2024 | Updated: 01:55 BST, 10 August 2024 e-mail 17 shares View comments At some point towards the end, Liliana – wife of the Hairy Biker Dave Myers – noticed her husband's wedding ring was missing. 'His fingers had become very thin, and since we were only going between the hospital and home, I thought it had slipped off somewhere between the two places and he had lost it.
I was very upset not to have it,' she says. She stopped thinking about the ring. In the weeks and months after Dave died in February this year, there were other things that took priority.
Grieving, mostly. But just the day before we meet, Liliana was going through one of the drawers where her ever-dapper husband, the much-loved TV chef, kept his collection of handkerchiefs. And there, nestled among the silk, she found his wedding band.
She becomes emotional just talking about it. 'All his handkerchiefs were ironed and neatly folded, and there was his ring. He must have put it there, carefully, so as not to lose it.
' Liliana and Dave Myers married in 2011 in front of 400 friends and family Hairy Bikers Dave and Simon King, who was at his friend's bedside with LIliana when the end came She has it on today, on the third finger of her right hand, mirroring her weddin.