Jock Zonfrillo’s heartbroken widow Lauren Fried has shared an emotional social media post as she marks her first wedding anniversary without her husband.
The celebrity chef, who passed away last year at the age of 46, was shown in a series of images from their 2017 wedding that Lauren shared to her Instagram on Monday.
Jock was smiling and full of life 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.’
‘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 Zonfrillo’s heartbroken widow Lauren Fried has shared an emotional social media post as she marks her first wedding anniversary without her husband. Both pictured in 2017
It comes after Lauren shared a similarly heartbreaking post on Christmas last week.
Lauren took to social media to share a post accompanied by heartwarming footage of her two children, Alfie and Isla, on Christmas day.
The clip sees the kids wrapped in the warmth of family love, opening presents and receiving comforting hugs from their mother.
The celebrity chef, who passed away last year at the age of 46, was shown in a series of images from their 2017 wedding that Lauren shared to her Instagram on Monday
Jock was smiling and full of life in a formal blazer and traditional Scottish kilt as he shared a kiss with his bride Lauren, who looked stunning in white lace
‘It’s different this year. No less love or excitement, just my stubbornness to see the kid’s faces light up in spite of it all,’ she explained.
The post continued with a reflection on the arduous journey ahead.
‘Watching our gorgeous children navigating their first Xmas, I can see now that tragedy will make them. It will make them fierce and fearless, they’ll have a strength no-one can quite put their finger on,’ she continued.
It comes after Lauren shared a similarly heartbreaking post on Christmas last week
The message was not only one of personal perseverance but also of gratitude.
Lauren also acknowledged the overwhelming kindness that has been extended to her family in the wake of Jock’s passing.
Jock died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30 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.
She took to social media to share an emotional post accompanied by heartwarming footage of her two children, Alfie and Isla, on Christmas day
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.
The media personality was scheduled for several publicity engagements for season 15 of MasterChef when he died suddenly.
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.’
Zonfrillo died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30 and was found by police at about 2am on Monday, May 1
