His death comes as MasterChef's 15th season, featuring Jamie Oliver as a guest judge, was due to premiere in Australia tonight. He became a host of the popular Channel 10 cooking show in 2019 alongside Andy Allen and Melissa Leong, and Junior MasterChef Australia in 2020.

Jock is survived by his third wife, Lauren Fried, and his four children: Ava and Sophia, from his first two marriages, and Alfie and Isla, with Ms Fried. Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay led the tributes today. He was believed to be renting a home in the city, but was found in a hotel. He moved to Melbourne from Adelaide in 2021 because filming MasterChef in the south Victoria city takes up six months a year. Today the culinary world is mourning the death of the former hellraiser chef, who was a drug addict who said he 'replaced heroin with the insatiable need for success'. Jock himself had posted a teaser on Instagram yesterday.īut the broadcast has been postponed after Victoria Police were called to a hotel on Lygon Street in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton for a 'welfare check' and found Jock dead at around 2am this morning. The death is not being treated as suspicious - but the cause has not been revealed. The highly-anticipated new series of MasterChef was due to air on Australian television tonight with Jamie Oliver among its celebrity guests. The British-born chef reportedly flew home early to Melbourne from Rome, leaving his wife Lauren Fried, and their two young children, Alfie, five, and Isla, two, in the Eternal City. Jock Zonfrillo cut short a family holiday in Italy to return for the launch of the new series of MasterChef - but was found dead aged 46 just hours before season 15 of Australia's most popular TV show was due to premiere, it emerged today.

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