Jock was very generous with his time and spirit in the show and will be so very missed. Had the best time working with him for this year's MasterChef Australia. Jamie shared a photo of them together and said: 'In total shock to hear of the sudden death of chef Jock Zonfrillo. The show will not be airing this week in light of Zonfrillo's passing. His death comes as MasterChef's fifteenth season, featuring Jamie Oliver as a guest judge, was due to premiere in Australia on Monday night. 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. Cram it into your mouth, snort it up your nose, bang it into your vein if it doesn't kill you, you never know: it might make your life more interesting.' Describing his life he said: 'I always have. The Glasgow-born chef enjoyed living far from the comfort zone. He claimed he lost his virginity poolside in Yugoslavia aged 12, to an older French woman. The 46-year-year certainly packed plenty into his life. He famously carried worry beads to help him cope with stress and anxiety, using them while filming MasterChef and later launching his own range at up to $500 a set. His 2021 bestselling memoirs Last Shot was criticised, including his mentor Marco Pierre White, who said: 'Almost everything he has written about me is untrue'. But Orana closed in 2020 with debts of millions of Australian dollars. His victim Martin Krammer sued but claims he never saw his $75,000 compensation.īut by 2017 Zonfrillo was the hottest chef in Australia, with his restaurant Orana winning awards across the world. He was declared bankrupt in 2007, five years after setting a trainee chef on fire for working too slowly. The chef became a huge star Down Under after a life and career of extraordinary ups and downs. Jock, who was found dead in Melbourne this morning aged just 46, said his life could be compared to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting before cookery saved him, claiming that most of his friends back home in Scotland were 'dead or in jail'.
He injected his last hit of heroin immediately before boarding the plane from the UK and was in the throes of withdrawal by the time he touched down. He became a MasterChef judge in 2019 alongside Andy Allen and Melissa Leong, and also Junior MasterChef Australia in 2020 - 20 years after landing Down Under seeking a fresh start.
The Glaswegian father-of-four, who was born Barry Zonfrillo, left school at 15 and credited his mentor Marco Pierre White with saving his life after giving him a job and accommodation when he was a homeless heroin addict in London in the 1990s.
Hellraiser MasterChef Australia star Jock Zonfrillo's extraordinary culinary life began aged 13 as a dishwasher at Turnberry in his native Scotland and ended in tragedy as one of the biggest names in Australian cooking.
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