SCOTT CAM: Previously... LEAH: We're going up.
..our Blockheads moved up in the world
to the first floor of their houses
for master bedroom and walk-in robe week.
LEAH: Up, up, up. Everyone, up.
After two consecutive wins...
It's Leah and Ash! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
It's Leah and Ash again! (APPLAUSE)
I could get used to this.
..Leah and Ash are rolling in cash...
That is $10,000.
Boom!
..while Eliza and Liberty are cash-strapped and struggling.
Very concerned about the budget.
Got no money left.
I'm not being negative but I'm, like, we're not winning.
We have to be OK with delivering empty rooms with Block Bucks stuff.
And their builder Mark gets fed up.
Mark!
We need you.
This is when things became a little bit fractured.
"I'm sorry to be forward here but this is the reason
"I NEED a plan the week before we start.
"This is now a non-negotiable."
We feel so useless.
Tonight, a ceiling like we've never attempted on The Block.
And we've already got a few concerns.
ASH: I think a few people were worried
whether we could curve the gyprock
and they thought they were gonna snap.
Sabotage is the name of Kristy's game.
So, Steph is very easy to get into her head.
I can easily suggest something and it will eat her away.
STEPH: Kristy, would you have done timber beams in here?
And... We're going racing!
..a driving challenge gets the Blockheads feeling fast...
and furious.
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
Six weeks ago, we started our journey on Charming Street,
with five very charming 1950s brick homes...
# I know I'd go from rags to riches... #
..that will be transformed into these modern-day mansions.
Fast-forward through a very busy six weeks on The Block.
Today marks the halfway point.
It's Wednesday, hump day of master bedroom and walk-in robe week.
And how are our Blockheads feeling at the halfway point?
(BLEEP). Yeah. Yeah.
Sometimes it feels like it's going fast
but then I think back to the moment we arrived in Melbourne.
It feels like ages ago. It feels like a lifetime ago.
STEPH: We are loving the journey. We love what we're doing.
We will crave this for the rest of our lives,
so we don't want it to be over.
Mmm. I just want to sleep.
(LAUGHS)
LESLIE: There's a combination, I think.
Like, we're loving it but then we're just away from the boys
and it's a lot for them and it's a lot for us.
KRISTY: I feel like we've got to the point now
where I think I've been more savage in the last two weeks.
It's nice to mess with people. Time to have some fun with it.
ELIZA: We're not feeling great.
We were having a really great time at the start
but we're not winning things.
We're not finishing things and we're putting in double the work.
We've got to turn this around somehow.
Perhaps a Lite n' Easy treat will lighten everyone's mood.
Oh, oooh la la. Good morning, good morning.
Hello.
Do you guys want some brekkie? Yes.
Would love it. LIBERTY: My god, how cool's this!
Wow. Thank you.
Isn't this a treat?
# Yummy, yummy food for you to eat For you to eat... #
Gosh, how delightful.
Wowee.
Can we just line up again? Mm-hm.
LIBERTY: Come in. Morning.
PRODUCER: It's good to see your smiling face this morning.
Yes, I feel much better today.
My god, yesterday was horrid.
Yesterday was godawful.
SCOTT: Yesterday was a tough day for Eliza and Liberty
and their head builder Mark, who shared some heated text messages.
And then some heated words.
I didn't want to push you last night.
I feel like there was push, a lot of push.
Like... Yeah.
I feel like, for us, this experience, we're not having fun.
Yeah.
We're not happy, we're not sleeping
and when you leave, we do another 12 hours of work.
We are zombies and we're now not, like, delivering.
Yeah, hopefully today will be a better day.
Our builders, I don't think they're doing a bad job.
I think that they're doing the best that they can,
being so stretched and as exhausted as we are.
PRODUCER: So, you're fresh as a daisy. What's on?
Need to lock in a lot of my sort of styling things today
so that they get delivered on time.
SCOTT: Eliza and Liberty are planning a master bedroom
featuring their signature orange and blue colour palette and a fireplace.
Their walk-in robe will feature a make-up station
and a mix of open and concealed shelving
in black and white cabinetry,
which is Liberty's focus this morning.
I need to style my walk-in robe, so one of the main ones I'm looking at
is Eadie Lifestyle because they have a lot of, like, hats and scarves
to style the space with.
And then I'm just looking on the Block Shop to lock in, like, chairs
and bedside tables and things like that,
so I'm hoping to have a lot of it locked in today
so that it gets delivered in time
and I can kind of just, like, put that to bed.
# Sometimes all I think about is you... #
Master bedroom this week and we are experimenting with something
that I've wanted to do for years.
We're doing a very large curved scalloped ceiling.
It's like a fluted ceiling. It's hard to explain.
Yeah. Just as hard as it is to build.
Leah and Ash are planning a very curvy master bedroom and walk-in robe
which will put their tradies to the test.
There's a rounded bench seat for starters
but the herculean challenge is that curved ceiling.
Wednesday, the frame's going up
and we're sort of getting the plan together
for this curved scalloped ceiling
and, yeah, everyone's sort of...
I don't know whether they're thinking it's awesome
or they're, like, oh...insane.
KEITH: Wonder how long this plastering process is gonna take.
It's gonna take a bit of time, isn't it?
DAN: A day and a half to hang.
House two's curved ceiling, very interesting.
There's a lot of work.
The plasterer up there, he's starting to batten it out
and we've already got a few concerns.
Yeah, that needs to go up, mate.
See that one? It's sort of going like that.
It's running out of level.
See the furring tunnel diving up? Yeah.
With details like this, you need real clear direction
and understanding.
I don't know if the plasterers have had that clear direction.
Are you confident you'll be able to achieve all this perfectly?
Yep.
Because you've never done this before, have you?
Nothing like this, no.
This is a high-end detail that, you know,
Leah really wants in this room,
so if it goes pear-shaped, it's gonna be expensive to fix
and the judges may not like it.
SCOTT: At the halfway point of the competition,
contestants usually start getting, well, competitive
and for Kristy and Brett, playing the Block game
has become a bit of a sport.
Let's not forget that this is a game.
And if anyone doesn't think that it wasn't a game play
to be friendly at the beginning, they're underestimating us.
Yeah.
PRODUCER: So you're not really friends with anyone.
Oh, Ash and Leah. Ash and Leah are genuine.
Yeah. The rest of it's fake.
(LAUGHS)
And the so-called fake friends, Kristy and Brett,
who are yet to score any wins for their rooms,
are targeting two-time winners Steph and Gian.
Yeah, so 'le bed' goes here. Literally wall-to-wall, basically.
So, Steph is very easy to get into her head.
I can easily suggest something as a throwaway comment
and it will eat her away
and I did that.
This is an awesome space, guys.
Yeah, I just feel insecure about it.
Why? I just don't know.
This was great 'cause I saw this one unfold.
So, because I know that Steph loves, like, beams...
Battens.
And I knew it was too late in the week but I just said something like,
"It's a bit of a shame that you're not utilising this space.
"You should've really implemented some form of beams."
I just feel like I would've probably utilised the pitch a little bit
in the sense of, like, warming it up and utilising that space.
I said to her, "You should really flow on your beams
"that you're doing from downstairs,"
knowing that those beams ran that way
and these beams would have to run that way
and that would just be so contradicting.
Steph and Gian's house has beams in the studio and ensuite,
living and dining room, powder room
and work-from-home space going this way.
If they install beams in the master bedroom,
they would need to flow in this way.
STEPH: Kristy, would you have done timber beams in here?
After that, I leave
and then I'm, like, "Alright, I'm done, I'm going to bed."
Steph bails up Ash and they are not...
They're, like, not friends. Yeah.
And she was, like...
So then, when Kristy says, like, "Do something different,
"what would you do?"
Just make them work.
And then the next day...
Hey, you guys.
I'm just trying to work out a way
in which we can make this ceiling interesting.
I woke up and I said, "You know what, I need to do this detail
"and I know it's a bit difficult but we have to get it done."
Called Peter from Truecore.
Question.
You know how I've got a cathedral ceiling?
PETER: (ON PHONE) Yeah.
STEPH: Yeah.
I called him at 9:00am and they were there at, like, 12:00.
It's a big one. So excited.
And then the boys were installing by the end of the day.
Good end result.
So now Steph and Gian's 37-square-metre master bedroom
is to include a single beam
across their cathedral ceiling in the bedroom
and a series of truss-like beams in the walk-in robe.
And she was, like, "I was always going to do beams."
But it definitely had nothing to do with Kristy and Brett.
Me, it was a mental battle... Mmm.
..and trying to get everyone on board and saying,
"Hey, we're still doing it and let's try and figure out the detail."
But I made the call and just ran with it
and we're just doing it, that's it.
Yeah. Yeah, right.
Your idea, though. Your idea, though.
PRODUCER: She really gravitates to you.
She does gravitate to me. And I don't know why.
If she thinks you have a genuine relationship with her,
she'd be stupid. (LAUGHS)
Like, if she believes it, because you're clearly messing with her.
Are you? Yeah.
SCOTT: Coming up... So I have a game.
..the game playing continues...
(BOTH LAUGH)
We were looking extravagant.
# Game over. #
Leslie's coming in very hot.
And a driving challenge that goes very wrong.
Brake, brake!
(THUD) WOMAN: Oh!
I love that!
(LAUGHS)
(GULL CRIES)
# Alright... #
SCOTT: It's Wednesday of master bedroom and walk-in robe week.
How are you, mate? Not too bad.
Do you want an insulation inspection?
Yep, love one.
Keith is doing the rounds
to see who can tick insulation off their long to-do list.
Yep, I reckon this room's pretty good, mate.
And the first house ready for sign-off is house three.
Well, good news, guys.
You guys are the first people ticked off.
Oh, the first! Awesome!
How good's that! How good!
So you can start gyprocking.
Upstairs, master bedroom, all going well.
Kristy and Brett's master bedroom
will include a Venetian plaster feature wall, hanging pendants,
double downlights and skylight.
And their spacious walk-in robe
will have sleek open-timber cabinetry,
which is being installed now.
Upstairs, we're in Truecore. That's a breeze.
That room will just get done.
Our main priority for the rest of the week is, weirdly, downstairs,
not the room we're revealing this week.
This year, the Blockheads have been given the schedule of work
for the entire house
and under strict conditions, permission to work ahead.
This week, they are permitted to prep
for next week's kitchens and laundries on the ground floor.
In house three, it's a big job.
Very expensive, very time-consuming, a lot of labour,
turning what should be a one and a half room thing
into just a massive amount of work.
With so much work to do on the ground level,
it looks like Brett might need some help.
And I know just the guy.
('HERO' BY MARIAH CAREY) # And then a hero comes along... #
Hey, Brett. How are you? Good, mate. How are you?
Good, thank you. Good to see you again.
How can I help today?
I don't want to make it too easy for them
but is there a better way to do this?
You're in a tight space like this.
I'm getting sick of these wheelbarrows.
Yeah, absolutely. We've got a 600kg motorised wheelbarrow.
You walk behind it, load everything up,
take it outside, straight into the bins.
This machine is a massive timesaver
as it can carry the equivalent of eight wheelbarrow loads
in a single trip.
Oh, mate, that's gonna make things so much easier.
We've got a two-hour delivery promise as well,
so we can get it here...
Nice. ..quick smart.
That was quick. That was quick.
So, what we try and do...
We're actually just gonna be dumping over there, so that's not too bad.
So this is the dumper that can hold about 600kg.
I don't have to do any pushing.
The size of the buttons. Oooh!
And if you don't want to see someone you can just block them out.
Gone.
Anything to get out of hard work.
Come on, Bretta, get in there.
Stop playing with it and start doing something!
Alright, boys. The real worker's coming.
The boys will be finished by the time you get there, Bretta.
(LAUGHS)
Over in house one, it's all ticking along.
We are still on track for our master bedroom, walk-in robe.
Kyle and Leslie's master bedroom will feature their signature archways
and LED lit arched bedhead,
a seating area and arched cabinetry in the walk-in robe.
With everything on track upstairs,
Kyle is wasting no time doing the groundwork
for next week's kitchen and laundry.
Main focus for me today was demo of the bathroom,
which will be our pantry next week.
After discovering a whopping 300mm slab earlier in the week,
demo downstairs is proving to be a big job for Kyle,
stretching over days.
I think the jackhammer that I had
would've been fine for a normal concrete slab
but old 300mm suspended slab on metal sheeting
with pool fencing reinforcement kind of needed something a bit more...
with a bit more gusto.
# And when a hero comes along... #
Kyle.
How are you, mate? Good. Hang on a sec, Dave.
Let me turn this off.
I've noticed you've been at this for a few days now.
(LAUGHS) Looks like a bit of hard work.
I'm thinking, I've got a much more powerful demo hammer
that's gonna chew through that much quicker
and make it much easier for you if you like.
Sign me up, Dave.
It's a new toy for you.
Next level up, mate. Heavy-duty.
Looks the goods.
Weighs about 30-odd kilos.
As soon as you push on that one... Yep.
..hold on tight. Thanks, mate. Thanks as always.
No worries. Cheers. I'll get stuck in.
Yep, go for it.
Yeah, boy! (JACKHAMMER POUNDS)
PRODUCER: What's happening on Wednesday?
We're, like, insulating for hours and hours and hours.
I had to insulate it completely by myself.
SCOTT: Due to their lack of budget for labour,
Eliza and Liberty have got their building team
prepping next week's laundry
and Eliza is flying solo upstairs in this week's master bedroom.
So, you're the insulator? Yes.
What about Liberty? She's shopping.
She's shopping? Yep.
Good night's sleep last night?
I had five hours, which is so wonderful for me.
Five hours? Yeah.
That's a good sleep, is it? Yeah. Really, really good.
I do feel like a new person today. You seem like a new person.
Yeah. That's good.
Bit more colour in my face. Yeah.
Bit more pep in my step. (LAUGHS)
Happy days, uh? Yeah. Exactly.
Today, anyway. Good to see.
For now.
Now, are you doing the insulation by yourself?
At the current moment, yeah.
Yeah, the way that we manage our budget this week
is that we do more in terms of labour,
all of that sort of stuff on site
and using Block Bucks,
so that's something we've certainly stepped up on this week.
So I'll just keep powering through. Yep.
How long do you think it's gonna take you to insolate?
What, four hours? Yeah, probably.
OK.
'Cause your gyprock at the start...
and they'll finish their ceiling off pretty soon, I would've thought.
So, do you reckon I need to get more hands on deck?
Well, you don't want to hold these guys up.
Yeah, I know. Because we're paying.
SCOTT: Sorry, Eliza.
Kennards are good but they're not that good.
Looks like you're on your own with this job.
I (BLEEP) hate every minute of it.
(MAN LAUGHS)
Shut up. Shut up!
SCOTT: In house two, the curves are coming in
and the curved bench seat is taking shape.
And it's almost the moment of truth
to see if the curved ceiling can become a reality.
There's lots of moving parts with this ceiling. Yep.
It's bold and maybe a bit of a risky move
but our team were really up for the challenge.
And in we go.
We've got all our 6mm flexi gyprock from CSR.
So you sit it face down the way it's got to bend on two pieces of timber
and the sheet slowly bends as you wet the back of it.
I've left them for, like, four hours.
The water dried out and it sort of started shaping to that shape.
So, yeah, we start sheeting.
MAN: Put it in the centre? MAN: Get the centre. Yep.
The centre? Yep.
They've gotta go up together.
ASH: I think a few people were worried
whether we could curve the gyprock and whether it was gonna work.
This sort of job, you need to get it right,
otherwise there's no point doing it.
Alright, stop, stop, stop.
We have to wet it. What's that?
We have to wet it again.
I think everyone thought they were gonna snap.
And it's gotta be so smooth and so perfect.
(BLEEP)
How are you? Are you feeling pretty good there?
Yes.
You need to push in.
Looks pretty good. Eh?
This side's all good. Perfect.
(DRILL WHINES) That's cool. I like it.
I knew it would work. You're welcome.
(LAUGHS)
And the curved ceiling has Foreman Dan eating his words.
Mate, I'm actually really impressed. I actually can't believe it's...
I'm on board. I'm on it.
I like it when you're on board, mate.
It can't be three in a row, can it? Why not?
We have just won two weeks in a row.
A third time is, you know...
Totally possible. ..totally possible. (LAUGHS)
Oh, I reckon... 100%.
I said to Scotty last night, I said,
"Where are we going for dinner on Monday?"
(BOTH LAUGH)
(GULLS CRY)
SCOTT: Hey, Block fans.
How would you like to win $35,000 in cold, hard cash
to transform your place, just like our Blockheads?
Well, thanks to the folks at Truecore and Colorbond,
this fabulous prize will take your home to a whole new level
and to win, all you have to do
is head to the Block website and enter now.
# I left a good job in the city... #
It's hump day of master bedroom and walk-in robe week
and I've got an age-old riddle for you.
What is 4m long, loud and potentially very dangerous?
ELIZA: Oh, my god! Sorry.
Did I hit you?
Who am I hitting?
The answer is... Oh, my god.
..the lovable hazard that is Eliza from house five.
Coming through!
(SQUEALS) DAN: Argh, my head...
That went well.
(SIGHS) This life is not for me.
This is very, very dangerous.
(SQUEALS)
It was just a lot of carrying timber and doing insulation
and it's just been godawful.
None of this is fun to me. None of this I find enjoyable.
# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
A very important aspect of master bedroom and walk-in robe week...
Here. Oh, my bad.
..is styling the roads to perfection, a fact not lost on Leah and Kristy.
Kristy and I hit a local op shop to start styling for our wardrobe.
Alright, let's do it.
We need to style our wardrobe, we don't want to spend a lot of money
and also we can find some cool things at an op shop.
Alright. So I have a game.
We hadn't even moved and I said to Leah, "Do you want to play a game?"
And Leah's always down to play a game.
So you've got a walk down the aisle and as you walk down the aisle,
when you put your hand on something and I say stop...
Yeah.
..you need to wear the whole outfit, shoes included.
And for how long do I have to wear the outfit?
The whole day. Oh, the whole day?
The whole day. (LAUGHS) OK.
Close your eyes.
You run your hand along the aisle
and when the other person says stop...
Stop.
..it has to be a part of your outfit.
(BOTH LAUGH) Yep.
Stop.
That's it. That's the one. (LAUGHS)
That's the one. That's it.
Stop.
Yep.
I couldn't be happier with the selection.
Oh, my god. They are actually so fun.
Keep going. Stop.
Yep. That's the one. These ones?
That's the ones.
(BOTH LAUGH)
There you go. Done.
I was going through the shop.
No.
I seen a bag that looked very similar to Steph's bag that she won.
It's Steph and Gian!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Back in week two, Steph and Gian won this Hermes bag valued at $20,000.
This isn't a rip but in brown of Steph's bag.
Yes. It's the exact same hardware.
I wouldn't say it's the same... Similar.
..seeing it's $8.
I wouldn't say it's the same. But... Are you gonna do it?
Yeah. Yeah.
So I made sure to make that as my prize piece
for my wardrobe this week.
(LAUGHS) Prize piece.
Straight off the bat. And then you can say to her...
Should I walk into her Domain like this, like she did ours last week?
It's a beautiful space. GIAN: Yeah.
It's a beautiful space.
I'll ask her if she wants to swap.
That's a good idea. Really good idea.
It's brown. She loves brown. Mm-hm.
Done. 'Perfectch'! (LAUGHS)
Alright. Let's do it. Alright.
# I'm too sexy for my love... #
So, did a full outfit, hats included, gloves included
'cause it was freezing.
(BOTH LAUGH)
And we had to wear those clothes for the whole day.
Oh, the patterns, the textures, babe!
We were looking extravagant.
('GET YOUR FREAK ON' BY MISSY ELLIOTT)
# Holler! Holler!
# People sing around, now people gather round, now people jump around
# Get your freak on, get your freak on... #
(LAUGHS) We've done this every day...
I know.
# Get your freak on, get your freak on
# Get your, get your, get your, get your, get your freak on... #
But aside from that, we actually found some little things
for our own wardrobe,
but, yeah, there was probably a fair bit of personal shopping
on this one.
# I'm feeling like I'm gonna... #
OK. Where to now?
And then we went to the hairdressers.
We've done a morning of shopping and an afternoon of hair.
This is the best sort of day.
BOTH: And they say that The Block's hard.
# Go. #
Get out.
Sisters!
Since the connection of us and Ash and Leah,
house one, house four and house five...
they have delved and found their own group...
Yeah. ..which, good on them.
And buddies Liberty and Leslie have teamed up to shop too.
I wish I looked a bit nicer to go in here.
I feel like us going to an art gallery,
we look like homeless people. (LAUGHS)
I've been looking into this piece of artwork
ever since week one of The Block
and so, I've been meaning to visit for a while,
to have a look at this particular piece of artwork
that I'm really, really in love with.
This is that Francesca Owen piece. It's pretty stunning.
Oh, wow.
And that I thought in the back of my head
it would really work well for the master bedroom.
That is actually stunning, isn't it? I'm so obsessed.
She was really nervous going there
because it was outside of Block Bucks
and she's super conscious with their budget at the moment
not to spend outside of her Block Bucks.
Oh, like this literally, like, ticks every single box for me.
I just don't know if I'm gonna be able to afford to get it.
I think we could do this for 1,000.
Oh, gosh. I know.
OK, we did sell our challenge set thing for 350 bucks,
we sold a chest of drawers for 250, so that's...
Right. Right. So you only need $400.
What can I sell for $400?
Have a chat to Eliza. I mean, it is stunning.
ELIZA: I hate this so much.
I truly, truly despise every second of this.
I've never been in so much pain.
(RINGING TONE)
I'd rather die than be here.
(LAUGHS) What did she say?
"I'd rather die than be here."
(LAUGHS) Is it awful?
I truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly despise what I'm doing
and what I have been doing for the last eight hours.
Onto more important things... Did you see my text?
I can't get over it. Like, I literally...
And Leslie's here. What do you think about it, Leslie?
No, honestly, it's stunning in person.
Colours are really great. What else can we sell?
Can we sell insulation offcuts? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Do you know what I think? What do you think?
Just do it? Yeah.
Because I haven't liked anything else that you've shown me.
OK. Bye.
Alright, I think we're doing it, Amelia.
Oh, my god. How exciting. We'll sell some stuff.
We'll... Absolutely.
I'll sell my soul.
It was one of those things that I had to have
which I knew was gonna make the room and tie it all together.
But we all heard it here first.
You're not spending any more money for the next six weeks...
No, I'm not. ..outside of Block Bucks.
Correct. OK.
This is it. I'll remind you.
Nice.
Today has been a great day.
It's probably one of the best days on The Block so far.
It's been a big day. Oh, here it goes.
WOMEN: It's been a big day.
Hey, boys. I thought you were getting your hair done.
I did. What do you mean?
Look at the fit on youse.
We've had a hard day, really.
She's gone blonde Barbie. That's good.
When Kristy goes blonde, she's usually much more of a bitch.
So...
I want to go and have a little squiz upstairs.
Yeah.
Dude! Oh! That looks unreal!
That looks so good!
This is probably one of my best moments,
seeing that ceiling come to life... ASH: Mmm.
..'cause I honestly have wanted to do it for years.
I cannot... That looks so good.
..believe it!
I can't believe it!
While house two is riding high,
the girls in house five are still battling the job
that doesn't seem to end.
PRODUCER: What have you got planned for tonight?
We've got a lot of insulating to do tonight,
so that's what we'll be focused on.
How long do you think it's gonna take you to insulate?
What, four hours? Yeah, probably.
How many layers of this do people need?
We've been left out to dry a bit this week, I reckon.
(BLEEP)
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
SCOTT: It's Thursday of master bedroom and walk-in robe week.
KYLE: Oh, Leslie. I can see a sign.
Around site, there are signs that a big surprise is in store.
Oh! Oh!
"Stop..." (LAUGHS)
..it said.
There was a bollard. And it said what? A message.
"It's time to rally."
Oooh, rally. "Head to Ford's Proving Ground in Lara..."
GIAN: "Today, we are putting your fine motor skills to the test."
"How will you handle the pressure? Cheers, Scotty."
Oh, Jesus Christ. That doesn't sound very fun.
It's obviously like some sort of driving test.
Which is... Oh!
All signs literally... Literally pointed to racing.
..pointed to racing.
Eliza.
I've got conjunctive insulation. (LAUGHS)
We have some sort of a challenge scenario today.
I think it's like some sort of driving thing.
Do you feel confident in driving? Mmm...
PRODUCER: Are you car people? Yeah.
We can be car people. We're car people.
We can be car people today. (LAUGHS)
SCOTT: Self-professed car people
are definitely living next door in house three.
Get a load of that.
Oh, my god. Yeah, right?
I'm so excited. (LAUGHS)
It's time to race, I reckon. We're going racing!
(LAUGHS) Oh, my god.
Why is Ford letting me drive more of their cars?
(LAUGHS) I've already crashed one. (LAUGHS)
Yep, Kristy crashed one Ford...
(THUD) I've hit a bollard.
Oh, my god.
..twice.
(THUD)
When are we going? Where are we going? Can we go now?
Yeah. Where's Ash? Wake Ash up.
LEAH: What's that?
Daddy, I have a present for you.
(LAUGHS) What is this?
Oh, it's a (BLEEP) rally.
"Head to Ford Proving Ground in Lara.
"Today, we are putting your fine motor skills to the test.
"How will you handle the pressure?" Oh, yes!
(WOMEN LAUGH)
We were... So excited.
..pumped for this.
Right, this has got to be between you guys and us.
No doubt about it.
We are excited for this because I'm a bit of a revhead.
And Kristy was excited because she is also one too.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
KYLE: We arrived at the Ford Proving Grounds
in our little Ford Ranger convoy
and we were presented with an obstacle course.
Hey, what the hell?
Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
KRISTY: Oh, no!
As we approached it, we could see a bit of a course going on,
bollards out, which Kristy knows bollards really well
after smashing in that car.
I felt attacked, personally. (LAUGHS)
I felt like this challenge was attacking me.
# Now, shut up and drive... # Oh, we're driving between poles.
(LAUGHS) Kristy. (LAUGHS)
When we arrive, we see all these cutouts of Keith,
of Scott, of Shelley
and we see all these cones and automatically my mind went, like,
"There's some obstacle course here."
WOMAN: Oh, no. MAN: Obstacle course. On sand too.
Oh, no.
God.
This looks cooked.
It's scary 'cause in case you haven't noticed,
I'm not very adventurous.
I don't take risks
and I don't want to die.
Where's my cones that we're going through?
Over past us. I haven't got my glasses on.
# Got those highway blues... # Here comes trouble.
Are we going around the cones? (LAUGHS)
He's gonna run himself over.
Oi! Eh!
SHELLEY: Where are your cones? Stop the car.
OK.
Oh! Oh! Good morning.
CONTESTANTS: Good morning.
Hello, everybody. Thank you for the ride, Scotty.
My pleasure, Shell.
I thought we go around to HQ and take it for a bit of a spin.
Mmm. Very smooth, isn't it?
I'll tell you what, I wouldn't mind getting my hands
on one of these little babies. No chance, Shell.
Not earmarked for us.
But have I got some news for you!
(LAUGHTER) What?
This brand-spanking-new all-electric Mustang Mach-E will be going home...
home with the winner of week 12. Yeah!
I've been telling you to put money away for gardening week
since day one, haven't I? Yep.
Week 12, we need to go hard.
Because the prize... And go home...
Yeah. ..with the Mustang Mach-E.
Now, if that wasn't good news enough,
this afternoon you'll be driving home in your brand-new Ford Everest.
Wow! Very nice.
Kristy... I know.
(LAUGHS) I'm already scared.
..be gentle with this one.
In fact, you might not get one, I don't think.
(LAUGHTER)
Now, before we do get to that,
obviously there's a little matter of a challenge to attend to.
Absolutely, Shell.
We couldn't come to Ford's world-class proving ground
without putting you lot through your paces, now, could we?
No. No.
Ford has been testing cars here since 1965.
I'm talking about 900 hectares of road tracks,
high-tech sheds and obstacle courses.
Ford have been stress-testing how their cars handle any situation,
which gets me to your challenge today.
So, to see how you perform under pressure,
you are to drive the obstacle course behind us
in the fastest combined time.
Combined? Yes.
(LAUGHS) That means you both have to get behind the wheel.
We thought going into this
the challenge would be between us and Ash.
Hoping Leah drives crap, we think we have it in the bag.
Now, the trick to this is obviously drive fast.
But you've gotta be careful as well
because every tennis ball, cone and cardboard cutout
that you knock over, you will be hit with a five-second time penalty.
Now, I did see on our way down the track there was you, me, Dan, Keith,
Aido gets a look in... He does.
Do not aim for the hosts, please. (LAUGHTER)
But did I see the gnome down the back too?
Well spotted, my friend Shell. The gnome is down there.
The team that get the fastest combined time on the obstacle course
will win $10,000 thanks to Ford
but if you don't knock over the gnome,
you'll take the gnome home as well.
OK. If you don't knock it over.
Now, my very good mate Kane from Ford is gonna show us how it's done.
Here he comes. (LAUGHTER)
House one, I suggest you get out of the way.
Oh, yep. Yep.
You borrow our car, OK? KANE: No worries. Thank you.
Come on, Kane. You've gotta watch him.
This is where you've gotta go.
Are we reversing it? (LAUGHTER)
No! No, what cone do I hit?
Are you joking?
No, Liberty, we're not joking.
The obstacle course today will require each contestant
to drive in reverse through the cardboard cutouts,
making sure not to hit any.
Then they need to reverse,
hitting a golf ball into a bucket with the towbar.
Blockheads will need to drive through the main course three times,
then it's a bit of parking like this,
then fang it back, avoiding any collisions.
Anything hit will add five seconds to their time.
OK.
Now, Leah and Ash, you won last week's challenge,
so you can decide the order of the teams to drive.
Oh, really? Yes.
You've got five seconds. Oh, five seconds.
One, two, three, four, five. Just go, like...
We'll go, like, four, three, five, two, one.
That's us.
GIAN: Of course they chose us to go first.
PRODUCER: Is that a disadvantage? 100%.
SCOTT: Four, you're up. Cool.
So, us being first, we were effectively, like, the guinea pigs.
OK, house four, are you ready? We're ready.
On your marks, get set, go.
Oh, Jesus!
(GULL CRIES)
('CARS' BY GARY NUMAN PLAYS)
First team to take on the driving challenge is Steph and Gian.
# Here in my car. #
OK. House four, are you ready? We're ready.
GIAN: So, I drove first.
I just thought that it would be better me driving first
so that I didn't feel like I was, you know,
chasing a quicker time after Steph.
On your marks, get set, go.
LEAH: That's amazing.
Wow!
SHELLEY: Nice work, Gian.
STEPH: Line it up so...
So now he has to knock the golf ball with his towbar.
This is like golf, babe.
Oh! Yep.
Careful, careful, careful.
Careful.
Slow, slow, slowly.
Gian's attention to detail is different to mine.
This is why we clash.
CONTESTANTS: Oh! (BUZZ!)
Five seconds.
I literally took one turn too sharp. Two.
One turn. Two.
No, no, no. It was one.
But then it had collateral damage.
(BUZZ!) Oh!
(BLEEP) You lost one.
Another five seconds. Five seconds.
Now you're gonna go straight.
Don't touch me.
Nice park. OK, this is a tight reverse park.
Why? No, you don't, do you? ELIZA: Yeah, a little bit.
Why? Because I just need money.
(ASH LAUGHS) STEPH: There you go.
OK, go hard. Go, go, go. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn.
There's the gnome... Oh, yes! Oh!
(CHEERING) In, in, in.
It'll do. Well done.
I was so devastated for you when you hit those two balls off.
Did I hit two?
ASH: Gianni hit a couple of balls Steph wasn't happy about.
He did disappoint her. Poor Gianni.
OK. Steph, are you ready?
We're ready.
On your marks, get set, go!
Go, little one.
Yep. Now, go. Done. Good.
Alright. Wait. Slow. Ease up.
Ease up. Good, good, good, good.
Pump. Yep.
Good. Just take it easy here.
Yep. Pump slowly.
Don't go too fast. STEPH: Stop, stop.
"Shut up, Gian." OK, I didn't say that.
You did. I didn't yell at you.
I'm good, Gian! Don't!
She was doing well.
I don't really need him to talk when I'm driving.
Like, I know what I need to do. I know how I need to get there.
Go. Doing real well.
Yeah.
Come wide. A little bit wider than how I was.
Yeah. Gian knocked that one off.
Don't gas it. Slow it down.
Don't rush. You're in drive.
Just wait. Go. Please don't do anything for me.
PRODUCER: Are you two like this when you drive anyway?
Yes. And this is why... We just go to places separately.
Good. Brake. Brake!
WOMAN: Yes! That was so good! WOMAN: Whoo!
WOMAN: Well done, Steph. That was impressive.
She smashed it. Mmm.
So... Like, I was shocked. I was too.
That was so good, Steph. That was so good. So, so good.
Then we were up next.
I get to clean the slate with my reputation of smashing bollards.
(THUD)
Better not knock another one. (LAUGHS)
SHELLEY: Go! Which side do I go?
This side? Oooh, she's up.
Oh... Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight.
Keep going. Keep... Reverse?
No, no, no. SCOTT: Oh, no.
Oh, no. (LAUGHTER)
Did I get it?
You're gonna miss it, I think.
Oh, that'll do. Oh, no, it's off.
Didn't go in the hole. Oh...
This is tight. Oooh, isn't it?
Once you're in...
(BLEEP) brake.
She's gotta go wider on all these turns.
Track's getting slippery. Here she comes.
Don't hit the gnome, don't hit the gnome.
She's going very wide. Yew!
(LAUGHS) Oh, my god!
(CHEERING) She's slippery, boys.
Eh, eh, eh... She's slippery.
Didn't hit any bollards, if you were wondering.
WOMAN: That was really good, Kristy.
My strategy was traction control off,
so in a very tight course, I could lock the front brakes, accelerate
and kick that back end out.
Oooh, look out, Keithy. That's how you make up time.
You're doing so good.
Why is he driving with his head out the window?
That a boy. That's the way to do it.
Is this old school? (LAUGHS) That's the way to do it.
Go, Bretty.
(BUZZ!) Oh, it's off.
Go! Didn't go anywhere in the hole?
No.
(BLEEP) LEAH: Jeez, he's picking up some time.
Holy moly.
This will be me the whole time Ash is driving.
MAN: Let's get it. Here we go.
BRETT: When I got an opportunity to hammer that car on some soft dirt,
oh, did I give it everything!
Looking good.
Go, go. Get it, get it!
SHELLEY: Yeah! (LAUGHTER)
LEAH: That was so good.
Whoo!
I got a compliment from Kristy, which are very rare,
and that was such a fun time, so we actually loved that.
I don't even know how to drive this.
Don't run me over, OK? Are you ready?
I still feel like we're risking death
by even getting behind the wheel.
Go.
Don't go too fast.
Yep, good, good. Good. Good pace. Good pace.
Good pace. Watch out. Don't go too fast.
Oh, my lord.
Eliza wouldn't shut the hell up during my little drive.
Who wouldn't want, like, "Good, good, good, good one,
"yes, yes, good, very, very good"?
Very good!
"Good one. Yes. Doing alright."
Yes, good, good, good. Straight ahead.
"Good one. That was great. Yes. Keep going."
OK. (BLEEP).
Stop.
(APPLAUSE) That was cooked!
Did you see me at the beginning? Oh, my god. We nearly lost control.
LESLIE: Eliza does not...
This was her second time getting in the car, so she was, like...
ELIZA: I have driven this car once!
Tell someone who cares. (LAUGHS)
Alright, Eliza.
Liberty did a good time but not the fastest time of the day,
so you've gotta make it up.
Are you ready? No.
I would've appreciated a helmet.
Go!
Because we were swerving and all sorts.
Yes. Oh!
Did she get one? LEAH: She got one.
ELIZA: I wish I had not hit a tennis ball
but you win some and you lose some.
I didn't hit anything, so there you go.
Come on, Eliza. MAN: Bring it home. Hammer it!
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
PRODUCER: Have you guys got this in the bag, yeah?
BOTH: We absolutely do not have this in the bag.
(BOTH LAUGH)
The strategy was I would go first...
I'm such a mum with my driving.
..see how much I stuffed up
and then Ash would gauge how much time he needed to, like, pick up.
Yeah, I was just gonna go as fast as I can.
Go!
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yep.
Oi, look out for me, thank you very much.
Slow, slow, slow. I'm alright.
Are you good?
(LAUGHS) This is a mum late for school.
Go! (LAUGHS) Straight. Straight. Straight.
Straight. Yep.
I'm off it.
Yep, go.
Go! Why are they so slow out of there?
It never worked out for me.
I was always doing, like, you know, Austin Powers,
where he's stuck.
That's how I felt.
Hook. Hook.
Hook. Hook. Hook it in.
Hook it in. Hook it in.
Come on. Just go.
Hook. Go.
BRETT: She stopped for a long time doing something, I don't know,
and I would love to be a fly on the wall in that car.
ASH: Just straighten your wheel, straighten your wheel. Go.
It was a lot of fun.
Yeah, it was...
Slow down, slow down.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) You survived.
And then Ash drove.
BRETT: Ash now knows the time's over.
WOMAN: He knows that there's... (LAUGHS) He's gonna fang it.
LEAH: It's very traction-ey. Don't go hard.
Shh. Don't go hard. I'm not watching.
Ready? Set. Go.
# Road runner, road runner Going faster miles an hour... #
Oh, my god. Wow. He's a driver. He's a driver.
Leah's got her eyes closed. (LAUGHS)
LEAH: Ash drives on that really scary borderline
of we're living, we're dying.
Careful.
In. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
MAN: Damn, he got it.
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
KRISTY: He's doing real well. They can't get the gnome again.
I'm not having it. I'm not having it.
LEAH: Just careful! Careful! Careful, please!
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
OK, careful!
BRETT: He's done well. KRISTY: Done so well.
LEAH: Do you want me to look at anything?
Don't go too hard. Just don't go too hard at this.
I can't, I can't. Careful, careful.
And, Ash, this is very slippery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very slippery.
(BRETT EXCLAIMS) It's very slippery.
It's very slippery, Ash! It's very slippery, Ash!
(PANTS)
Oooh.
(SHELLEY EXCLAIMS)
I want to get out! I want to get out!
I didn't see that whole time.
I can't walk.
I feel like I've been on a rollercoaster.
(LAUGHTER) So, Leslie wanted to go first.
I don't know... What was your reason for wanting to go first?
Because I didn't want to be last. WOMAN: Get them, Les.
Leslie's one of those people where I have to, like,
tell her to, like, dial it down. (LAUGHS)
So, like, if you're, like, playing sport with the kids...
(LAUGHS) ..sometimes they're allowed to kick a goal.
Leslie's, like, "No, that's not happening." Like...
So I had, like, zeroed out that Leslie was not gonna, like,
drive the (BLEEP) out of the Ranger.
Go!
Oh, yeah, over the shoulder. MAN: Yes, Les.
WOMAN: Get it, Les. Where is the thing?
You're right. Here. Bit to the left.
Bit more to the left. Oooh, no. It's alright.
(BUZZ!) Smashed it.
Whoopsie.
(BUZZ!) Oh, bollard.
Oh... Five seconds.
LEAH: Leslie, funniest thing I've ever seen on a challenge.
What was that? There was no stopping.
I didn't see one attempt... Yeah. ..at braking.
KYLE: Just take your time now.
WOMAN: She's doing so well.
She's doing a very solid run.
Got all the way to the end
and you need to, you know, come to a nice stop.
WOMAN: Go, Les!
Leslie's coming in very hot.
Brake. Brake, brake. (LAUGHS) Oh!
(BUZZ!) Dammit!
(LAUGHTER)
She went ploughing through Keith and Aidan.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
And then just, like, "Vooom!"
(LAUGHTER)
Scotty came over, like, just after Leslie finished
and we swapped and he was, like, "Leslie set a good time.
"Just keep it clean."
So I was, like, "Maybe we are still in with a chance,"
so then I just sort of tried to just go as fast as I could.
Go!
MAN: Yeah, Kyle. WOMAN: Get it, Kyle.
LESLIE: Yeah, good.
He's on fire. (LAUGHS)
(BALL FALLS) Got it. Go.
This challenge was gonna play to my strength.
It wasn't driving a fire truck
but there's definitely an element of my job
where you need to be super alert driving at high speeds.
Look at him go. He's going great. Yeah.
Yeah, I felt like I was going good.
I got to the last lap and I just floored it and then, I don't know,
just took a little while before everything kicked in.
(THUD) Oh, my god.
Jesus!
(BUZZ!) Poor Shelley.
(BLEEP) OK. Just slow down now.
WOMAN: Take them out! Take them out!
Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop! Oooh.
SCOTT AND SHELLEY: Oooh.
SCOTT: Tell you what! (LAUGHS)
Tell you what, it's tight.
Sorry, Shelley. Thank you, mate.
(GULL CRIES)
SCOTT: Here we go.
Time to see who won the Ford driving challenge
to win an epic price of $10,000 and a gnome.
Well, congratulations, everybody. I was so impressed.
You all drove magnificently.
Actually, they surprise me each and every challenge we do.
I know. So, well done to all of you.
Alright. Well, let's start.
Are we gonna do the fastest individual time?
We could do that. That would be nice, wouldn't it?
That'll be you. Alright.
The fastest individual today, not that it counts,
because it is a combined score... (LAUGHTER)
..is two minutes and 28 seconds...
Jeez! What?
No penalties. Brett. Oh.
Ash. OTHERS: Oh!
Congratulations, mate. Ash, you got the fastest time.
I think that's... Oh, no, it's not.
That's worth noting. I don't care about that. Very clever.
And, Shell, who got the most penalties?
That would be 20 seconds and that is Leslie!
Yeah! Congratulations!
(LAUGHS) And also, Kyle ran you over.
Yeah, so I don't know what that is but...
It's a one-minute penalty. ..it's not cool.
Sorry, Shell. It's not cool.
Sorry. (LAUGHS)
Alright, well, let's start.
Steph and Gian were our first drivers today
and their time combined...
seven minutes and...
Really slow. ..22 seconds.
WOMAN: No, it's not, Steph. Are you kidding?
I reckon it's OK. That's so fast.
There we go. Very good.
Our next drivers were... Who were they?
..Kristy and Brett. Right.
And their combined time is six minutes...
(GASPS) Oooh!
I told you. ..and 27 seconds.
LEAH: Oh! Not bad, not bad.
How good! WOMAN: Nice.
Wow. That's quick. It is, isn't it?
Our third drivers of the day were... Oh, no.
..Eliza and Liberty. Ten minutes...
(LAUGHTER) Ten. Don't be generous.
(LAUGHTER) What is it, Shell?
Eight minutes... (LAUGHS)
No, it's not that bad. It's not bad.
I feel like they went way quicker, though.
..point 06.
LESLIE: That's good.
(LAUGHS) Oh, god.
Before we go any further and get to the next two teams...
Oh, yes. ..we've got some more good news.
Great news, Shell. More prizes than you can poke a stick at.
You're not gonna believe this. Whoever wins this week's room...
not this challenge, this week's room
will, with one other couple of their choice,
join myself and Tom on board a chopper...
(LAUGHS) A chopper?
BRETT: Oooh. KRISTY: Oh!
..a chopper heading to the famous Phillip Island race track...
Yes! ..for our Ford getaway.
LIBERTY: Honestly, you had me at Tom for this prize
because winning any kind of prize
where Tom from Tom and Sarah-Jane in last year's Block is involved
is heaven 'cause we're obsessed with Tom.
Wow. What about that! Tell me there's more.
There's more. Not only will you get to drive the track yourselves...
Oh!
..but you'll also get a hot lap in a V8 Mustang supercar...
Oh... ..with Ford's Penrite race team.
Yeah! That is cool.
In part, courtesy of Charity Drive Days,
which is a fantastic organisation.
What a Ford getaway that is!
We are desperate to win that one.
OK, well, shall we get down to it, then?
Right. What have we got? Who drove next?
Leah and Ash.
Six minutes... (EXCLAIMS)
..and 43 seconds. Oooh!
OK, it's down to house one and three.
CONTESTANTS: Oh!
Oh, my good... This is a gnome.
10,000 cash and the gnome will get you on the chopper.
Probably. Alright. Here we go.
Six... Six...
Oooh. We get a six.
(LAUGHS) BRETT: How many people died in their drive?
KRISTY: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
KYLE: Then we get a zero.
..zero... And then we get a one.
..one.
(CHEERING)
KRISTY: That is incredible. It's house one.
LEAH: Wow.
KRISTY: How? Even with...
Well done, well done, well done.
# Remember my name... #
House one take home the biscuits. Congratulations.
That's right.
Kyle and Leslie have the fastest combined score,
with Kyle coming in at two minutes and 34 seconds after penalties
and Leslie on three minutes 27.
And while Ash got the fastest individual time,
Leah had the slowest at four minutes 15.
10,000 bucks from Ford. You've got the gnome.
(IMPISH LAUGH)
We could've run another four people over and we would've still won.
Good luck, everybody. Back to the Block. Well done.
Thank you. Bye.
BRETT: Bro, how the... (BLEEP)
I don't know about that.
Bro, I thought we (BLEEP) had that (BLEEP).
(LAUGHS) Kristy and Brett.
KRISTY: That ain't right.
By 20 something...
They beat us by... Yeah. ..20 something seconds.
ASH: Look at Brett in the back. He's, like, calculating it all.
BRETT: Bro, I feel like we just got robbed, dude.
Yeah.
LEAH: We should've been timing everyone.
(LAUGHTER)
Kyle and Leslie won, much to the dismay of all the other contestants,
apart from us, who kicked up a fuss about the timings
and, like, "They can't be right, it must be a conspiracy theory..."
Yeah.
Yeah, there was definitely very quickly a lot of questions,
as opposed to congratulations.
Standard for some of the people in our group, isn't it?
VOICEOVER: The sisters have been ruffling feathers.
There's double standards.
It does seem like the girls are getting a bit of an extra hand.
Tomorrow...
Why, why?!
I... glaze over when we get to rules and regulations.
So we bribed them.
The bribe that sparks outrage.
Money rules only apply for some!
How the f is that possible?
PRODUCER: So... the bribes.
Ohh, here we go.