Jock Zonfrillo's widow Lauren Fried shares bittersweet family milestone after MasterChef star's shock death

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Jock Zonfrillo’s widow Lauren Fried has shared a bittersweet family milestone almost a year after the MasterChef’s star shock death.

The wife of the late celebrity chef, who died in April 2023 at the age of 46, posted an adorable photo with her son Alfie on his first day of school.

Alfie smiled in his mother’s arms as he proudly wore his school uniform and a large blue backpack.

Lauren looked at her son lovingly as he began the next stage of his development.

‘The wee man’s first day at school,’ she captioned the image.

Jock Zonfrillo ‘s widow Lauren Fried has shared a bittersweet family milestone almost a year after the MasterChef’s star shock death

The wife of the late celebrity chef, who died in April 2023 at the age of 46, posted an adorable photo with her son Alfie on his first day of school

Lauren shared an emotional social media post earlier this year as she marked her first wedding anniversary without her husband.

Jock was shown in a series of images from their 2017 wedding.

He was smiling in a formal blazer and traditional Scottish kilt as he shared a kiss with his bride Lauren, who looked stunning in white lace.

In the caption, she wrote: ‘Happy Anniversary My Love.’

Lauren shared an emotional social media post earlier this year as she marked her first wedding anniversary without her husband

Jock was shown in a series of images from their 2017 wedding

He was smiling in a formal blazer and traditional Scottish kilt as he shared a kiss with his bride Lauren, who looked stunning in white lace

‘Our dream of growing old together in the middle of nowhere in Italy – kids and dogs under our feet, you laughing your enormous laugh, falling asleep on your chest – is so vivid. That’s where I imagine you now.’

Jock died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30, 2023 and was found by police at about 2am on Monday, May 1 – the same day Channel Ten was meant to premiere the fifteenth season of MasterChef Australia.

He is survived by his third wife Lauren, and his four children: grown-up daughters Ava and Sophia from his first two marriages and Alfie and Isla with Lauren.

Jock died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30, 2023 and was found by police at about 2am on Monday, May 1 – the same day Channel Ten was meant to premiere the fifteenth season of MasterChef Australia

The media personality was scheduled for several publicity engagements for season 15 of MasterChef when he died.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal that when the police entered the hotel room to conduct a welfare check, officers believed that Jock 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.

A heartbroken Lauren said at his funeral: ‘We were two halves that found each other in the exact right moment in life when we were ready.’

‘We were ready for that big love, to live a life of adventure, to become parents together, to imagine things and to actually make them happen.’