Celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge appreciates simply being alive after a recent cancer scare.
The My Kitchen Rules judge, 50, opened up to Stellar magazine about the health scare after the loss of his friend and fellow celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo.
Colin said he began having persistent stomach pains while filming the new season of MKR in New Zealand.
But when he went to see his doctor, the Kitchen Nightmares Australia host said he didn’t quite get the assurance he was expecting.
‘My doctor is as blunt as a brick, and he said to me, “Oh, that could be bowel cancer.” I was like, “What the f*ck?”‘
Celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge (pictured) says he appreciates being alive after a recent cancer scare
Colin received the all-clear following a stomach cancer scare, but said he is still working with his doctors to work out what has been causing his health issues
The television host was candid about his medical procedures, and expressed how fearful it had made him.
‘He booked me in with a surgeon for a colonoscopy and a gastroscopy. It was a scary two weeks. I didn’t tell anyone, but I was absolutely petrified,’ he said.
Colin received the all-clear from a cancer diagnosis, but he is still working with his doctors to work out what has been causing his stomach issues.
The chef claimed he has a newfound appreciation for life after getting the all clear in the aftermath of his friend Jock Zonfrillo’s death.
Colin posed with wife Jane and their two daughters in the latest issue of Stellar magazine
‘The next day, I was putting up pictures of a sunrise [on Instagram] because I was out running going, how good is the world? I think it was because of the whole Jock thing, as well, because he was younger than me. It was a wake-up call.’
Colin previously said about Jock’s death: ‘It’s so shocking. I’m sitting on a rock right now trying to take it in, I don’t know what to say. I’m floored.’
He said there was no indication anything was wrong for Zonfrillo, and the news was a complete surprise.
Fassnidge, who was friends with Zonfrillo for 20 years, told Daily Mail Australia earlier this year that he was struggling to process the tragic news.
Meanwhile, Fassnidge will be back on screens in the new season of My Kitchen Rules in September.