As many Australians face the prospect of losing their jobs amid the COVID-19 crisis, former MasterChef winner Adam Liaw has proved celebrity chefs are not exempt.

The 41-year-old, who regularly does cooking demonstrations, speaking appearances and collaborations with food brands and travel companies, admitted almost all of the next six months of work opportunities have dried up.

I think certainly my work kind of straddles the travel, food and arts industry so I would say the three worst affected industries from all of this, Adam told HuffPost Australia.

Certainly theres a lot of people in all of those industries that are doing it very tough at the moment. So Ive obviously got a bit more time on my hands then, as we all do, to sit at home.