Dave Myers has spoken candidly about his cancer treatment (Picture: Dave Myers/Rex)
The Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers has spoken about the ‘brutal’ chemotherapy side effects he experienced.
The TV chef revealed he had been diagnosed with the disease last year, joking that he’ll be a ‘baldy biker’ for a while.
Sharing an update months later, he noted that his treatment was ‘ongoing’ and he was ‘kinda doing alright’ as he learns to live with cancer.
Dave once again spoke candidly about the disease in a new interview recorded this week, saying: ‘It’s funny, when you first start chemotherapy… it’s quite hard. I’m still having it. It really was brutal.’
Speaking on Tommy Banks’ Seasoned podcast, Dave went on: ‘I lost so much weight and then it’s a battle to get your calories in.
‘At first I thought, “Right, this is great, I can eat all those pies I haven’t been eating for years”, except [my] appetite was dreadful!’
The TV chef revealed he had been diagnosed with the disease last year, joking that he’ll be a ‘baldy biker’ for a while (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Dave is best known for being one half of The Hairy Bikers (Picture: Instagram/hairybikers)
He added: ‘For me, a glutton, losing my appetite was awful. A can of soup was about as far as I could go.
‘Now I’ve got to the point where I’m at the weight I want to be, and I want to maintain it.’
Dave previously said his chemotherapy treatment for cancer affected his ability to walk.
Dave previously said his chemotherapy treatment for cancer affected his ability to walk (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Discussing the treatment earlier this month on Kaye Adams’ How To Be 60 podcast, Dave shared: ‘By God, the chemotherapy doesn’t half age you quickly. Because your balance goes, so for someone with a motorbike that’s a disaster, and my walking has been affected quite a lot, really.’
He also said that while he wasn’t suffering ‘symptoms’ of cancer, he had been struggling with the after-effects of the drug, which has left him struggling to stand.
‘So I’ve had to learn to walk again properly,’ Dave explained.
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He added: ‘It’s a funny thing, chemotherapy, it’s one of life’s great levellers. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the telly or on the dole, if you get that then you’re in the s***.’
Dave confirmed that he would return to filming this May ‘around chemo’, as he added he was ‘grateful’ the cancer wasn’t spreading.
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Dave bravely spoke about his cancer treatment.