IN NUMBERS: The Hairy Bikers

As Dave Myers and Si King continue their food tour in The Hairy Bikers Go North (8pm, BBC2), we look at how their lives and careers stack up in numbers…

1995

The year the pair met, on the set of ITV miniseries The Gambling Man. Dave was a make-up artist (who also specialised in prosthetics), while Si was the second assistant director (who was also a location manager). They retired from behind-the-scenes work in 2004.

The number of episodes in their first TV series, 2006’s The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook – the pilot was filmed in 2004. While making the series, Dave met his wife, Liliana – she managed the Romanian hotel they stayed in. The amount of weight the pair lost between them, back in 2012. According to

Dave: ‘We were filming in America, and I noticed we were casting shadows like Walnut Whips!’ Their Hairy Dieters book was such a hit that it outsold Fifty Shades Of Grey. The age difference between the two friends. Dave recently turned 64, and was born on September 8, 1957; Si will be 55 years old on October 20. The number of weeks Dave survived on

Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, partnered with pro dancer Karen Hauer. For the Halloween show, he was made up as the title character from

Beetlejuice: ‘I looked more like an angry panda.’