Andy Allen has opened up about his final meeting with Jock Zonfrillo, revealing that he saw the late celebrity chef just a couple of hours before he died.

Jock, who was found dead aged 46 in a Melbourne hotel room in 2023, co-judged alongside Andy on hit cooking show MasterChef Australia from 2020 up until his death.

In a sit-down interview with 7NEWS Spotlight, Andy, 37, got candid about the last time he saw his friend, revealing he met Jock for lunch the day before his body was discovered.

‘I’ve got hairs standing up already,’ he told Liz Hayes as he looked back on his and Jock’s final meal together, a moment he reflects back on a lot.

Andy went on to reveal that he had no idea that there was anything amiss during his last meeting with the celebrity chef.

‘That’s the thing that hurts the most,’ he told Liz with tears in his eyes, ‘(be)cause it was so sudden.’

Andy Allen (pictured) has opened up about his final meeting with Jock Zonfrillo, revealing that he saw the late celebrity chef just a couple of hours before he passed away

Jock (left), who was found dead aged 46 in a Melbourne hotel room in 2023, co-judged alongside Andy on hit cooking show MasterChef Australia from 2020 up until his death

Elsewhere in the heartbreaking interview, Andy recounted the moment he was given the news of Jock’s passing by his wife Lauren Zonfrillo.

The chef admitted that the grief of losing his close friend hit him ‘straight away’, a feeling that made him instantly ill.

‘As soon as I got off the phone, I ran straight to the bathroom and I vomited everywhere,’ he said.

Andy also shared how he still grieves his friend daily.

‘I always think of him. And I miss him, I miss him so much. It’s crazy that that never goes’ he said.

‘That being reminded of him wherever I go and no matter what I do, it is still as strong as the day that he passed two years ago.’

Andy’s raw on-screen moment comes after he shared a heartfelt tribute to his late co-star on the second anniversary of his death.

Last week, the celebrity chef shared a throwback photo to social media of them together and captioned it with some bittersweet words.

‘Two years since we lost the great man, Jock Zonfrillo. I miss him more than ever,’ Andy wrote.

In a sit-down interview with Seven’s Spotlight, Andy, 37, got candid about the last time he saw his friend, revealing he met Jock for lunch the day before his body was discovered

Last week, the celebrity chef shared a throwback photo to social media of them together and captioned it with some bittersweet words

The precious picture captured the pair beaming together as they proudly held up string sausages to the camera.

Many of Andy’s celebrity friends took to the comment section to share their support.

Jock’s widow Lauren posted a love heart emoji, as did celebrity chef Darren Robertson.

Andy previously revealed the death of his close friend and co-star was the ‘hardest time’ of his life.

Last year, he opened up about losing Jock and told how it was ‘really difficult’ grieving in the public eye.

The TV personality candidly revealed it was the first time he had dealt with such a personal tragedy.

‘It was the hardest time of my life, I had never had tragedy like that hit me so close, it was very uncharted waters and multiply that by it being in the public eye; it was really difficult,’ he told the Herald Sun.

Andy detailed his heavy emotional toll and told how he spent a ‘full day crying’ after travelling to Sicily to mark Jock’s birthday.

‘I spent a full day just crying, in a couple of hour increments, just having a good old cry, then I would be quiet… then I would go again,’ he shared.

Jock was found dead at the Zagame’s House hotel in Carlton, near Melbourne’s CBD, at around 2am on May 1, 2023.

At the time, his wife Lauren was in Italy with their two children and had phoned Victoria Police to request a welfare check because he stopped answering her calls.

Jock’s death came just one day before the 2023 season of MasterChef was due to premiere, and it was delayed in arriving on air for a week ‘out of respect’.