Masterchef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo has died age of 46
 

also seen this hasn't been posted yet

:(


Jock Zonfrillo is believed to have died of natural causes and nothing unusual or suspicious was discovered in the hotel room where he was found dead, Daily Mail Australia understands.

The MasterChef star, 46, was found dead by police at Zagame's House hotel in Melbourne at about 2am on Monday, just metres away from his former inner-city home in Carlton.

The Glasgow-born chef had left his family behind in Italy, where they had recently emigrated, to return to Australia for the launch of the new season of the hit cooking show. Which release date has been postponed for a week

Daily Mail Australia can reveal that when the police entered the hotel room to conduct a welfare check, officers believed that Zonfrillo had died of natural causes and didn't find anything that suggested otherwise.

There was also no drug paraphernalia found in the hotel room, sources said.

It will now be for the Coroner to determine the celebrity chef's specific cause of death.

On Tuesday, Daily Mail Australia revealed that Zonfrillo had secretly battled bowel cancer for years.

A source said he kept his health problems from most friends and colleagues, usually receiving treatment when the Network Ten cooking program was not filming.

It is not suggested Zonfrillo died of cancer, only that he had told very close friends he was suffering from the disease.

It comes as the Ten Network announced that MasterChef's 15th season will premiere on Sunday, with the full support of the chef's grieving family.

The network and sponsors had been determined to respect the will of Zonfrillo's grieving wife Lauren.

A close friend and neighbour of Zonfrillo has since revealed that the celebrity chef sometimes opened up to him about his 'demons' over a glass of scotch.

Stuart Ayer told Daily Mail Australia he and his wife struck up a close relationship with the TV star's family during the three years they were next-door neighbours.

'I was a bit choked up when I found out he died, and I still am,' Mr Ayer said.

'We used to sit and talk about our demons - he was open about his demons in his book, but I have my own and we'd chat about them over a scotch.

'I found it really helpful - he was a great guy.'

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Jock with his wife Lauren and their two kids

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out of the 3 newest judges i liked him the most :sad:

although no one is better than George, Gary, Matt for me personally


he also looked a bit like Glee's Matthew Morrison (just a bit) but that's me personally maybe

awful for his family RIP

i thought i didn't know him, but i do recognise him, so he must have been on some other cooking shows that i've seen

I'm glad that a thread has been opened about this.

Honestly was shocked to hear the news a few days ago.

RIP