Guardian Australia has seen an image of the excerpt from the 25th anniversary of White’s 1990 cookbook/autobiography, White Heat, which was published in 2015. Jock Zonfrillo’s 2019 casting as a judge on MasterChef catapulted him from food industry figure to mainstream Australian celebrity.

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A Penfolds source, who was there at the time, tells me Zonfrillo applied for the position after it was advertised. At one stage Zonfrillo describes how, while he was working for White, he would do stages in other prominent restaurants. Last Shot has been described as a mix of New York chef Anthony Bourdain's memoir Kitchen Confidential and Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, which follows a group of heroin-addled friends in Edinburgh. Marco gave me a job and arranged for me to get accommodation when he found out I was sleeping in the changing room because I had no money,” Zonfrillo is quoted by Steen in the updated edition, published in 2015.Zonfrillo turned up at the Restaurant Marco Pierre White at the Hyde Park Hotel in 1994 and found a mentor who would shape his life. There was no immediate confirmation of his cause of death, but the police were not treating the death as suspicious and are preparing a report for the coroner.

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Moving to north-west England he sold cocaine and other drugs to supplement his wages, was eventually sacked and at 17 made his way to London.He has no recollection of ever speaking with him about his living situation, and says he did not loan him money.