MasterChef judge Melissa Leong’s hot tattooed chef husband Joe Jones

MasterChef fans were given a glimpse into the private lives of their new judges on Sunday night’s episode.

And it seems viewers couldn’t get enough of Melissa Leong’s heavily inked husband, Joe Jones, expressing their excitement on Twitter.

‘I need to know more about Mel’s hot tattooed husband and their cat ASAP,’ one viewer wrote.

Another commented: ‘I wish I was Melissa’s cat, I can’t stop thinking about it, what a cute family!’

‘Excuse me, did anyone see how much of a hottie Melissa’s husband is?’ a third asked.

While it’s unclear how long they’ve been married for, the 40-year-old critic and her husband Joe are both foodies.

Joe is a chef at the successful Romeo Lane cocktail bar in Melbourne.

Following Monday night’s episode, Melissa shared a sweet tribute to her husband to Instagram, thanking him for appearing alongside her on the show.

‘Shout outs to my awfully hot husband for being a legend and agreeing to be on MasterChef with me,’ she wrote.

‘Not only is he a classically French trained chef with a specialist focus in pastry, and one of the best things to ever happen to me,’ Melissa added.

Melissa recently revealed she and Joe were mixing things up in the kitchen and cooking Italian food for dinner amid the global pandemic. 

‘Like everyone else, this ISO life usually involves multi-step dishes that take some time to prepare,’ Melissa told The Daily Telegraph.

‘We don’t often have the opportunity to cook time-consuming things like that, so now’s the time,’ she continued.