Ramsay said spending time with him on Masterchef was “electrifying”.

Sending heart felt love and condolences to all of his… /Ssa9qOKiFr Had the best time working with him for this year’s Jock was very generous with his time and spirit in the show and will be so very missed. In total shock to hear of the sudden death of chef Jock Zonfrillo. He was never done as a chef, he still had years to go.” “If there is one thing we’ve done as chefs is we’ve united and have been talking about the good times, it’s just so painful. “The ripples have been devastating, no-one is going to get over this quickly,” Ramsay said. Ramsay was brought to tears when he spoke about Zonfrillo, who he had worked with back in the 1990s in London. “He’ll be greatly missed … he was a star in the true sense and that’s why he has my vote to be one of the great cooks of the 21st century, he was special, he was rare.” Sending all my love to Lauren and the family in this difficult time Gx I truly enjoyed the time we spent together on MasterChef in Australia. Saddened by the devastating news of Jock Zonfrillo's passing. “He was filled with empathy, with compassion, he had qualities very few chefs have,” he said. Pierre White said what he did for the industry in Australia was “extraordinary”. “That’s what makes him special, that’s what makes him rare.” “Very few chefs have an inquisitive mind, an intellectual mind and a creative mind. “Jock came to me when he was 17 years old, his enthusiasm was greater than his knowledge, but it was that enthusiasm which drove him, maybe fuelled by his fears of failure, by his insecurities, which I could relate to. Marco Pierre White paid tribute to Jock Zonfrillo (Steve Parsons/PA) On a special tribute episode of The Project on Australian TV station Channel 10, Marco Pierre White praised his former apprentice chef. They confirmed the death is not being treated as suspicious. Victoria Police said officers went to an address in Lygon Street in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton where they found a body at about 2am. It was revealed last Monday that Zonfrillo, who had presented MasterChef Australia since 2019, had died at the age of 46.

Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White have paid tribute to Glasgow-born chef Jock Zonfrillo, with Pierre White labelling him one of the great cooks of the 21st century.

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