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A moving interview with the Hairy Bikers about their glorious friendship before Dave's tragic death from cancer. What they say reveals just how close they really were…
How touching it is that the roles were reversed this week when Dave died at home aged 66 at the end of a two-year fight with cancer. His trusty sidekick Si was, of course, by his side.
Interviewing them — and, yes, they were always together, apart from a stint in 2013 when Dave did Strictly with professional dance partner Karen Hauer — was a sheer joy because they were straightforward ordinary blokes (although, interestingly, not at all ‘blokey’) who couldn’t quite believe that they were being paid to hang out together, travel the globe and have a laugh. By then, he was studying fine art at Goldsmiths’ College in London, later going on to a decades-long career as a successful make-up artist at the BBC, specialising in prosthetics — once reportedly painting the white stripe across Adam Ant’s face and preparing Helen Mirren, no less, for the cameras. Oh they’d wryly point out that they weren’t exactly Joe Wicks (‘nor would I want to be,’ Si once told me), but their influence was arguably greater because they reached the sort of target audience who would never willingly go to see a doctor or knock up a kale smoothie.
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