SCOTT CAM: Welcome to Mount Eliza on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
Just a one-hour drive from Melbourne's CBD...
# Say my name... #
..this upmarket beachside paradise is known for its laid-back lifestyle,
incredible mansions, and spectacular sunsets.
It's also home to this year's Block.
With five two-storey homes boasting sweeping views of Port Phillip Bay
and the Melbourne city skyline.
It's built with TRUECORE steel frames and COLORBOND roofing.
But the interiors of these magnificent homes will be left
to our brand new teams of Blockheads.
Sometimes we refer to ourselves as the bush bogans,
and I think that's because
we're pretty raw and we say it how it is.
We're not classy.
We probably swear too much.
A bit rough around the edges.
Yeah.
Rough diamond, eh?
# I can buy myself flowers
# Write my name in the sand... #
Been married, when did we get married?
2022.
Go again. Oh, sorry. OK. Go again.
Been married seven...
We've been together nine years and we've been married four.
Is it four? I don't know.
Four next month. Four in April. It's OK, four.
Just say four. Just say four. OK. Alright.
Um, so we've been together nine years,
and we've been married for the last four years.
Everyone got Covid at our wedding.
We had a Covid party wedding.
You all got Covid?
Everyone got Covid after the wedding.
My name is Chantel, and first and foremost,
I have three little kids,
so I'm a full-time mum,
but I have an activewear brand
that I sell online.
My name is Wyatt.
My nickname is Randy or the Big Dog.
Oh, really?
Are you guys a couple, a romantic couple?
(LAUGHTER)
Are we a romantic couple?
Definitely not.
# I heard you're back together
# And if that's true... #
There is Courtney, my best mate.
And then there's Nelson, my husband.
Preference is definitely my husband only.
I just love Courtney as my best mate.
Just for clarity.
(LAUGHS)
Go. Yeah. And now turn around.
Slow down.
Oh!
How do you guys know each other?
He's my dad.
(LAUGHS)
Dad, that's so dangerous! No, it's not. Are you all right?
No, I'm fine.
Arriving at The Block,
what animal are you going to be channelling and why?
A horse!
Because it's year of the horse and I'm going in galloping.
And I'm not gonna stop until I win the race.
What about you?
Oh, possibly... A possum?
No, no. Possibly... (LAUGHS)
A monkey? I dare say.
The way I get up and down ladders and climb around walls
and so on. Yeah.
Random, but good.
What these five teams don't know yet is what they're in for
when it comes to this year's Block houses.
Three houses are set high on the site.
I think we'll call them uptown.
Houses one, two and three are elevated with incredible views.
They're each set on approximately 1000m squared of land,
much bigger than your average Aussie block.
They've got an identical floor space,
four bedrooms, four bathrooms,
open kitchen,
living and dining that flow onto the alfresco terrace,
and they have a rumpus room,
elevator and a pool.
(SPLASH)
Across the road on the low side,
let's call it downtown, are houses four and five.
House Four also sits on roughly 1000m squared,
while House Five sits on the largest block
of a whopping 1435m squared.
These two houses have an additional 50m square each,
with the same four bedrooms,
four bathrooms,
open kitchen, living and dining
that flow onto an alfresco terrace with partial water views.
They also have a rumpus room and an elevator and a pool.
(SPLASH)
Also on site is the biggest Stratco HQ shed we've ever seen.
It's so big, it can be seen from space.
With all this magnificence to work with,
it's fair to say this year's Blockheads
are the luckiest Blockheads of all.
OK, we can do this. Yeah. We're here.
We're just the nice girls from Brisbane, baby!
# Ooh, you've got control of me. #
I'm Sev. I'm a commercial interior designer.
The handle looks amazing.
They're a bit quirky, aren't they? Yeah.
Spaces that I tend to dabble in are, like, airport environments
or, like, your shopping centres.
A couple of hotel designs.
Have we checked that they're all sort of pivoting
and they're going the way that they need to?
We get cool clients, but they've always got a brief.
And not once have I had a client just let me be free.
We have got three houses sorted.
We've still got two to go.
I watch The Block religiously.
What I'm really looking forward to with The Block is
just something of an open canvas
that we can put our own sort of flair onto it
and be creative, even though it sort of spooks me a little bit,
uh, having that much freedom, I guess.
You're arriving to The Block,
what's your spirit animal going to be and why?
My spirit animal on The Block, I reckon's going to be a lion.
Me too!
But the chick version, like a lioness.
(LAUGHTER)
Yes. (LION GROWLS)
Oh my god!
What's going on here? What are we... Holy (BLEEP)!
They're massive!
Are you crying? I am!
Stop crying!
I just want to make an agreement.
Anything that we say or do in the next 12 weeks
cannot be used against each other in our marriage.
Agreed?
Yeah, agreed.
I'm Lisa, I'm 34, and I'm a paramedic.
My job has given me a completely different perspective on life.
Like, if I have a problem in front of me,
one of my first thoughts is always, like, it could be worse.
And I'm Ross, or Rosco.
I'm 38 years old.
I work in oil and gas.
Fly in, fly out. Two weeks on, two weeks off roster,
on a little island off the northwest of WA.
I've been up here nearly 11 years now.
So hopefully, uh, getting on The Block will change that.
And I can get home finally.
And you have a son?
We do. Yeah. We have Lando. He's two. He's the best.
OK. Here we go.
Hello!
ROSCO: How you goin'?
Hi, I'm Courtney.
Courtney, Ross.
How are ya?
They looked beautiful, and they were very, like, emanating energy.
What do youse do in Brissie? Oh.
Um, so, I'm an interior designer. Oh, sick, nice.
Amazing.
I'm just in admin. Nothing exciting.
Courtney in admin with her beautiful blonde hair.
(LAUGHS)
I think if they found out Courtney was who she is
by occupation background,
I think that would instantly put the competition
on their toes and they'd feel threatened,
so it'd make them step up furthermore.
So we're just trying to keep them at that diffuse level
where they just think she's in admin
and she's just, you know, easy breezy and I'm the decoy.
G'day, guys.
I work as a site manager in commercial construction.
So I just want to refresh everyone with the site hours and site rules.
My job on site would be what GMac does on The Block.
Which moron put the two rooms separately?
Why is that missing insulation over there now?
Why am I here? It's not finished.
That's a lot of wasted space.
Procuring all the trades, bringing them on site.
Next week, we're getting the plans for these
fire sprinklers coming through.
Job sites are chaotic and I can see past chaos.
I'm very good at my job.
Out here, I just want to get an extra few points installed.
In the last three weeks, I've renovated 110 bathrooms.
Do you mean, like, cubicles?
No, I'm talking bathrooms.
I'm doing a hotel, Novotel Cairns, at the moment,
and I've renovated 110 bathrooms.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
In three weeks.
There you go.
Oh! Another team.
Hey, hey, everyone! What's up?
Holy crap.
I'm Rick, 62 years old. I'm a builder.
I'm Tayla. I'm a personal trainer.
And I started my apprenticeship when I was 15.
So do your maths there. Forever. Forever, yeah.
45 years.
I just love the satisfaction that it brings to the owner
once it's finished.
The joy I get, and to stand back and think, "I've created that,"
I think is what I get out of it.
I love what I do.
How many houses do you reckon you've renovated in your time?
Oh, it'd be upwards of 100-plus.
Good morning, everybody!
Are we ready? Let's do this!
I am a PT, so it's natural to me that I just have to be
a little bit bossy.
Come on, follow Maria, let's do it. Good. Nine. Big squeeze.
Eight. And go.
(SCREAMS)
Ready? Set, go!
I do have a son, Hendrix.
He is six.
So good! We did it.
Look at that. Eight seconds.
He looks nothing like me... No. ..but he's beautiful.
Blue eyes, fair skin, blonde hair.
We're doing this for him, for our future.
So I know it's all going to be worth it.
And that's what's in my brain right now.
What's up!
(GREETINGS)
What's up, sexy people!
Oh my goodness.
Right back at ya.
You are sexual-o. Oh!
"Girls, girls, girls! Oh, my god! You two, sexy, sexy!
Everyone's sexy! Oh my god."
And what do you do?
I'm a builder. Oh, nice.
Rick's a builder.
So that's always a little bit confronting to hear
you've got a builder...
You're up against a builder. You're up against a builder.
Oh, guys, we got another one!
Oh! Holy.
Ooh, bling, bling. All young ones.
We're probably old enough to be their parents.
(GREETINGS)
It's so cute when they arrive in their matching outfits,
and you could just immediately tell that they had some kind of farming
or station background. Yeah.
Fair dinkum Aussie couple. Yeah.
Hey, I'm Adam, 48 years old, station manager,
running cattle here in South Australia.
Hi, I'm Jolene, 42, station manager, Roxby Downs, South Australia.
Come on, little fellas!
We currently manage three cattle properties
in the middle of South Australia, for an Aboriginal corporation.
We get to run cattle.
In good nick, look at this fella. Good run.
I'm gonna go and get these ones you missed, eh?
Put in infrastructure and programs
to support rangers and then also upskilling local Indigenous groups.
It's very diverse.
My grandparents had a cattle station when I was a kid.
My dad has always had cattle stations,
so we've always sort of been in or around property.
Definitely got some of your dad's toughness in ya. Definitely.
Yeah. Just sort of, it's in the blood.
When we got together, we had three 13-year-olds,
because I've got twins and Jolene's eldest...
Is the same age.
I've got two boys, Kody and Cameron, and my daughter, Madisyn.
I've got my boy, Kai,
he's in Canada at the moment,
and my daughter, Ella's, in Cairns.
We have the modern day Brady Bunch.
Give me this bicep.
I'm so nervous!
We met at the gym.
Randy was, like, across the way,
obviously checking me out.
I was training legs with, like, a million kilos, and then Chantel...
Showing off. ..come over and just... No, I didn't!
..dropped on one knee.
What? That's my take on it.
That's not what happened.
That is not what happened.
# Clever girl
# Think you know but you don't know much. #
I didn't really know that he was into me.
And then he asked for my name and my Instagram.
Obviously, I was a bit, like, smitten and smiling and stuff,
and I was like, oh, OK. Like, he actually likes me.
Good squeeze. Come on, we want to work here.
And then it kind of just, like, snowballed from there.
We just got along so well and just loved hanging out with each other.
And then we moved in together. Yeah.
I've got two sons and a daughter - six, five, and two.
So my hands are very, very full.
Wyatt is not the kids' dad, and we won't be showing
the children on the show.
My former partner, for privacy reasons,
doesn't want the children to be shown.
And, you know, I completely respect that.
And so, that's kind of why they won't be on the show.
Ah, stepping into a ready-made family.
It was absolute chaos.
And I, like, I think I've lost half of my hair.
It's actually not too bad.
And the kids definitely listen to me better than they listen to Chantel.
No, he's the glue that holds us together, for sure.
# Judge, judge, judge this book by its cover
# I stand out like no other. #
Looks like Arnie getting out of the car.
Yeah. He's huge. Yeah.
Really, really fit dude.
# Arms like tree trunks
# Has the haters blowing chunks. #
He's got guns.
He's got calves the size of my torso.
Hi, sexy!
SCOTT: Now that all our brand new Blockheads have met,
let's check what we have so far.
A spectacular beachside location. Oh my god.
Five massive houses with multi-million dollar views.
This is the Golden Triangle.
And five highly competitive teams
about to take on the biggest challenge of their lives.
A recipe for disaster.
Sounds like the recipe for a renovating reality TV show to me.
# We're gonna party like it's 3012 tonight
# I wanna show you all the fine... # (CHEERS)
Let's check the ingredients.
It's The Block, right?
The highs are high. The lows are low.
There'll be tears. I just feel really overwhelmed.
I am in so much trouble.
I've never had anything like this in my life.
You stink so goddamn bad.
Tantrums. I'm going home. Goin' home?
Yeah. She can build the house herself.
If you're gonna go, you (BLEEP) pack your bags and go.
And drama.
I'll (BLEEP) off anyone that questions my integrity.
They're dead to me. I don't want anything to do with them.
It's just straight competition now. Game on, moll!
Because it is a competition.
If we see someone really struggling, maybe we can knock them out.
It went from real funny...
What are you doing to my house?
..to real (BLEEP) serious.
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Breathe.
(EXHALES)
It's part of (BLEEP) game.
Yeah, exactly. Everyone's trying to win, everyone.
Rats do come out at night.
Sneaky little bugger.
I do find it hard to believe.
It is such a well documented rule of The Block.
There should be penalties. Dan has said actually that
there should be disqualifications.
That's the painter.
Let's be real.
That is cheating.
Pot call the kettle black.
We didn't start it,
but holy heck, we might finish it.
They're playing the game and they're dirty players.
It's good to know these things nice and early, you know what I mean?
There'll be laughs.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Hugs.
And fun.
I thought I'd just go like this.
(FARTS) Oh, yeah.
That stinks, hon.
Not my fault.
This is how you get divorced. Come on The Block.
There'll be surprises.
(GASPS, SHRIEKS)
Some great.
(CHEERS)
Some not so great.
We actually have been cheating this whole time
and we wanted to come clean.
You might be the first team in the history of The Block
not to finish, based on money.
There'll be design inspiration and design disasters.
We're in trouble. Look, this isn't even square.
This is a disaster!
I don't even know if they can fix those defects, to be quite honest.
There'll be spectacular room reveals.
Absolutely stunning.
Boom! Out of the park.
This is really engaging the senses.
They're pushing the boundaries.
Jaw-dropping features.
This is architectural wow factor and what we want to see.
And more design inspiration than you can point a paintbrush at.
Bloody beautiful, what it is.
It's magical.
This is going to be pretty hard to beat.
But there will also be less inspiring moments.
You're kidding. Oh, this is devastating.
A train wreck. How are they going to architecturally fix that?
It's white on white on white.
This is beyond vanilla.
Unpainted, uncleaned. Jarring.
We're in a coffin. A really high end coffin.
I thought I was bored in the en suite.
Here, I need a defibrillator.
No dream, no sizzle.
Boring as bat shit.
D'you reckon I'll get points if I lie on the bed naked?
And this season, the ultimate winner will not just receive 100,000 bucks,
but also a prize pool worth a half a million dollars.
Whoa.
You know, the blood, sweat and tears, worth it.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Block is served.
Bon appetit.
Come on!
I think I just weed myself a little bit.
Well, Frankie, here comes another one.
(ALL CHEER)
Oh my god, Frankie!
Come on.
I'm starstruck.
Yeah.
And Frankie too.
Frankie!
Like, it's Scotty Cam.
I just couldn't control myself.
Scotty, I need to come and give you a quick hug!
Am I allowed to do that?
Oh.
Sev jumped on him after me too.
I felt like he gave me a nice warm hug.
It didn't feel like get off me, so I embraced that.
Hey, gang, welcome to The Block. You made it.
(CHEERS)
Wow. If you don't know, I'm Scotty Cam.
I'm very excited to meet you and get this show on the road, I can't wait.
Same. We've got houses one, two, three, four and five.
These houses are absolutely stunning.
They really are high end blue chip real estate.
You might just be the luckiest Block contestants ever.
We feel it. We feel it. Yep.
Our teams have been working really hard to get ready for you guys.
But now it is your turn.
This is a real estate competition, so you can't ever forget that.
And that's why this whole week is going to be
a house decider challenge.
(SEV GASPS)
I want a fully fitted out guest bedroom,
ready for judging,
by 9am on Sunday morning.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
We just felt the competition kick up like eight notches.
If you win on Sunday, you get first choice of the houses.
If you come last, you get what's left over.
The pressure's on.
It's huge. It is huge.
You know, because if we...
We could potentially end up with... The winning house.
Before we do that, I want to show you something
that is going to absolutely blow your mind.
Are you ready? Yeah.
Are you keen? ALL: Yes.
Fantastic. All right, follow me. Let's go.
OK, here we go. Here we go.
We've got our own Bunnings warehouse.
So cool.
Come on, look at this. Oh!
From the station,
Bunnings would be 6.5, seven hour drive.
It's your happy place. Tick, tick, tick, tick.
This one's, what, how far would it be?
Oh... Probably two kicks of a rock, I reckon.
Yeah, something like that.
I reckon kick a rock twice and I'd be here.
So what about this?
Absolutely crazy, isn't it?
It's crazy!
It's your very own Bunnings warehouse in The Block.
It's a dream come true, isn't it? Literally.
And you've also got a Chemist Warehouse there as well.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Oh, Chemist Warehouse.
Oh, 3B Cream.
Great for the rashes.
Great for a bit of chafe.
And also, we've got a McCafe coming as well.
Yes, please. Yes.
I've got something else to show you.
So come this way. Come on, let's go.
Have a look at that view there.
Can you believe that it's been 22 seasons of The Block,
and we have never had a water view before?
Yes!
That view.
You can see the whole of the beach.
Literally from here to the city.
You got Port Phillip Bay, you got the Dandenongs,
and then you've got Melbourne City as well.
You can see absolutely everything from the site.
It's breathtaking.
Would you like to go and look through the houses?
ALL: Yes!
All right. One at a time.
Just mix around, get around and have a look at all of them
and see which house you think
you can win The Block with.
See you later. All right.
# Feel the rush
# Bring the heat. #
This tape is probably something to do with the kitchen bench.
Oops. It's not tape.
It's not tape! You can tell I'm the first time here.
Randy, look at the view!
We're the winners of The Block!
I really like House One because it's got the most view of the city.
Wow, that is so stunning.
The location and the view,
I believe this is going to be the best Block ever.
Right, one, two, three, we'll go the middle one.
Wow.
Being a builder, I thought probably got a bit of an advantage.
All these are good. But this is, this is potentially the best one.
Do you reckon?
Tree-lined, ocean views from the back there.
Yeah, that view... Spectacular. Yeah.
We thought this is the one we want.
We immediately head over to House Three
because I like the look of that, by the trees there.
Yeah. Wow.
That is like an absolute million dollar view.
It's beautiful. You can't argue with that.
Look at this.
Dude. If we can go up, it's...
Dude, this is unbelievable as it is, I love it.
Yeah. This is, this is probably the worst one out of the lot.
It's still got water, but you've got them trees.
You don't want this.
This sucks.
Yeah.
We both did a quick walk around, and we can understand the houses
in the form they are currently, which is bare skin, just studs.
If we could get, like, a lift or a spiral staircase and go up...
All the way up, yeah. ..and get like a rooftop terrace,
that could be our game changer.
So the house we want is number four.
And the reason why we want it is it's got the best floor plan.
While all the houses have a similar layout,
houses four and five are split over two pavilions,
with a central courtyard and larger deck
that leads out to the pool.
I love this. I want this one.
I want this one. OK.
We need this house if we're gonna win The Block.
Let's go talk to someone right now. Where's Dan?
# I will be waiting
# Waiting for when it's time
# I'll be waiting. #
Okey dokey.
Sev and Courtney, meet Dan!
(OVERLAPPING GREETINGS)
Nice grip. She's got one, eh? Yeah.
Which house do you want, girls?
So we've got our eye on one of these two.
Four and five? Subject to whether
we could maybe look at a rooftop concept and go up...
To get those views that they get over there.
Like a deck, a viewing platform?
Yeah, right on the very top.
When we're talking real estate and money
and potential earnings post-show,
we sort of feel like we're on a gold mine here.
(WAVES LAPPING) (SEAGULLS CAW)
# I thought love was only true in fairy tales... #
Which house do you want, girls?
So we've got our eye on one of these two.
Four and five?
Subject to whether we could go up...
To get those views that they get over there.
Like a deck, a viewing platform?
Yeah. Right on the very top.
# I'm in love
# I'm a believer I couldn't leave her if I tried. #
We'd absolutely love to do a rooftop terrace looking over
that beautiful water view.
# Now I'm a believer. #
So that would be on House Five and House Four.
So if we can secure one of those, it would match the views
across on House One, Two and Three.
We love this floor plan.
So it's so important to us to win this site.
You have to draw it up though and show us exactly
what you want to do. Good thing I can do that.
Oh, so what do we do for work?
Sevilay is an interior designer. Commercial, though, but...
Good.
And I'm a site manager in commercial.
She's a you. Oh, wow.
Watch out, mate. Nice.
Got some experience here, Scotty.
On your toes.
That's why we get all these good questions.
They're thinking about it.
You know, the rooftop deck is a tough one
because plans are already in, approved.
Yeah.
Imagine they get it through, Scotty. Well, I mean...
Imagine. Game changer!
We will definitely ask the question for you,
and we'll be positive about it and see how we go.
OK. What happens if you win and we haven't got the answer
about the rooftop?
Do you choose House One, Two or Three? Or Four or Five?
I think we would still go... We'd go with one of these guys
because I think a lot of people will overlook these two.
We really want... BOTH: House Four.
Let's have a squiz down here.
Adam and Jolene, which house do you want?
Oh, can we have a quick little word, like...?
Yes. Just a little secret squirrel.
Secret? What secret?
Is council regs... Can we put a...go up another?
Well, you know what? We'll ask the question for you. OK.
Yeah.
That's, that's not a cut, straight out no.
It's not a no. It's not a hard...
It's not a no. And I actually think he is impressed with the idea.
So you got any building experience?
No, I do have a little bit.
So you do a lot of building on the job.
Used to be a chippie. Did ya?
Yeah. And I've got about 15 years property management
up my sleeve as well. So yeah.
Hopefully he'll get back to us by the end of the week,
before Sunday, because then we can make our decision.
We'll have a better grasp on our decision anyway.
At first glance of seeing the houses today,
I'm definitely thinking that House One, Two, or Three
is definitely my favourite options.
They have the big balconies and they have the beautiful view
of the water and the city.
So they're definitely the ones that I'm leaning more towards.
You're a unit, aren't you?
Thank you. Big boy.
Bloody massive. And also, you have a trade.
Yeah, I'm a carpenter. Oh, wow.
I started on site with my dad when I was 16 or 17.
He was like, "Oh, you're actually really good at this."
I ended up doing my trade and my cert four
in building construction as well.
I have my supervisor licence, so I'm fully qualified
in all of those areas.
All right, well good luck.
Thank you. I hope you win and get your house you want.
Top two.
Yeah. I think we might call you Dwayne, hey?
The Rock. The Rock.
The Rock. Hey.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
Tayla, Rick, meet Dan.
Hi. Finally. Can I hug you?
Hello.
How are you? Nice to meet you.
How are we?
I was quite starstruck.
He didn't get the jump on hug.
Ooh!
He didn't.
Now, guys, which house do you want?
Are you wanting this one or that one?
This is the one, Scotty. Two is... Is the one you want?
..Is the one I want. In the middle?
Yeah. Can I ask, what do you guys do?
I'm a builder. A builder.
Nice. And so have you got your own team?
I've got a chippie, a plasterer, waterproofer
and a tiler. Yeah. All sorted. The whole trade.
Yeah. It's good.
All right, good luck.
Thanks, guys. Great to meet you guys. Thanks.
See ya!
We're a little bit bamboozled, torn,
because we like the view on the upper houses.
That is undeniable.
That's a million dollar view.
But then the lower houses seem to have a bigger yard.
It's a tough one. Yeah, it's views or space.
Um, have you decided which house you want?
Course not. What?
We're the indecisive couple.
Are you? You should pack your bags and go home.
You've got to make decisions on The Block.
That's the other thing - about budget and about style and quality.
You've also got to make fast decisions.
Like, you've got to make decisions on the fly,
50 a day. And you've got to make them quick.
That's it. Quick decisions. See you later.
See ya.
So for those of you playing along at home, imagine this.
You've arrived at the biggest reno comp on Australian telly.
Here we go.
Oh my god!
Met the charismatic host.
Ooh!
Checked out all the houses.
Wow. This is insane.
And now, even though you don't know what room you are doing yet,
you have to pick out all the wardrobes.
Probably, like, either this one or, like, this one here.
Yep. This makes it more ashy, doesn't it?
So this is a bit more warmer. Exactly.
Are you seeing that?
No.
Window furnishings.
So just a push of a button and it will block out 100% of the light.
For a guest bedroom that you haven't seen yet.
And that was about an hour after we had rocked up.
Quick brief. And that was it.
It was like, really, like, sink or swim.
I think that colour is it.
So I would love to hone in on some, like,
walnut type of tones in the timber finish.
I feel panicked because I usually have a lot of time to, I guess,
feel the brief, go through the finishes
and really have a sense of direction.
OK. Uh, so let's make some quick decisions.
We're going to go for the Habitat Veneta for the doors.
Amazing. And then, uh, Nordic Oak for the internals. Beautiful.
And we're going to go for this beautiful profile on the doors.
Amazing.
I'm going for a dark, moody type of palette
that draws on the ocean's tones,
and hopefully it'll pay off.
OK, let's do it.
Off to Flooring Xtra.
What's going on? What's going on?
Um. Flooring. Focus.
OK, so what kind of carpet are we going for?
Ah! I hate carpet.
Plush loop? Plush.
Plush pile. Plush loop pile.
I'm, like, nervous.
I'm hungry.
Is it Flooring Xtra? Duh!
It's Flooring Xtra.
Here we go.
It's quite cute.
So that one there is actually this one on the floor.
Can I see that on the ground?
I think I want that.
It does look nice. That's beautiful.
Yeah.
I think this one. That's definitely the one that we want.
What are you thinking?
Something nice underfoot.
We do have to have a...
a, um...
Rough style. A rough style, like, a vision.
Alright. Mm.
It's coming to life...
..with every consult.
So is that around the kind of tones that you're...
Yeah. ..after?
Yeah, I like that. That type. Yeah.
It's just the colour.
It's just growing and growing and we can see it unfolding. Hey?
Yep...yep.
Yeah. So give me some feedback about the colour then.
Me? Yeah. You want feedback from me about styling?
We are now in trouble, aren't we?
And then with timber... Yeah.
What were you thinking?
Timber? Yes.
For, like, the rest of the house? Yeah, the rest...
Ooh, are we doing that now? Yes.
(EXCLAIMS)
You've got like 15/20 minutes to decide your whole flooring
for the house. Yeah.
For the whole house.
We want that.
Those two. Yeah.
Put that away. That's boring.
Decision? Done, that one.
Yep. I think that's it.
I think we agree.
Did we agree on something?
Holy! Awesome.
Thank you. Thanks so much.
All good.
Do you know what you've just chosen flooring for?
Uh. No.
I have no idea what we chose the flooring for,
but I was assuming it was a bedroom, for the challenge.
We thought it was for the guest room.
Then we go over to the wooden floors,
and I didn't want to put any wooden floors in our challenge room,
so I don't know what we picked those for.
Have a look at your plans. That's where you're renovating
this week in that house.
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
That's tough. Yeah.
We're gonna have to run in here and choose the best room.
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
So we head down to HQ.
And we meet the entire Nine in Six team.
Hello, gang. How are you?
I'd like to introduce you to Simmo and Aidan,
and their team over here.
They're, um, quite intimidating, to be honest.
A little bit, yeah.
G'day, everybody. How are we?
(OVERLAPPING GREETINGS)
Seems a bit formal here at the moment.
Uh, we'll just jump straight in and get into it.
We've got site hours here, uh, Monday to Friday, seven till six,
and Saturday, nine 'til three.
That's gonna be tough.
If I was a contestant right now,
I'd be very anxious at this time restriction
that we've got right now.
And you'd be thinking, "How can we fit all of this into these hours?"
But you've just got to have the right team.
You've got to have a good attitude
and just got to have good time management.
You will be working the same restricted council hours
that anybody that's building within Mount Eliza is sticking to,
at the same time.
The hours are quite scary, knowing that they worked
'til midnight, 1:00 last year.
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
That's stuffed. Yeah.
These are big houses.
And to sort of have that type of reduction in hours
and still hold a 12-week program...
Yeah, it's a lot.
We gave you a little bit of bad news with the working hours before.
So let's finish off on some good news.
I've got a gift from our good mates at CommBank for you.
If one person from each team could come up,
we're going to give you some plans.
Plans?
I'm going to give you a little tablet.
Oh my gosh.
There you go. And a tablet.
Thank you.
There you go. You get your two.
Thank you.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, on those tablets that you've got
from CommBank, you'll find your entire schedule
for the next 12 weeks.
And there'll be an estimated budget
that Dan and I have come up with for each room.
You don't have to stick to that, but you'd be wise to stick to it.
CommBank will be giving you a budget of $250,000
in cash, to fit out your homes.
You're going to have to manage those budgets very, very carefully.
In other words, treat every dollar like it's your last.
Now have a look at your plans.
See what you got.
That's where you're renovating this week in that house.
Which house is that? House One.
Amazing views.
Feeling good. I'm happy.
We'll keep this one, Scotty.
Which one did you get? House Two.
Oh, did ya?
So stoked to be renovating House Two.
Feels like we're in the place we're supposed to be.
Yeah. See, we just manifested that.
Which house did you get, girls?
We got House Three.
It is our plan B, so it's not the worst thing in the world.
Oh, beautiful.
Oh, gosh. We are given House Four.
The facade,
it's just this beautiful, straight-edged timber design.
It's absolutely beautiful.
It was stunning.
There's the guest, out the back.
Got House Five.
You don't want this.
This sucks.
Looking at the plans now,
that's actually a really nice house.
We're gonna nail it, win it regardless. Yeah. Yeah.
Now, I suppose you're gonna want to know
where you're going to be living?
Please don't make me camp.
It's just down the road.
In a hotel?
In a hotel? You're funny.
(LAUGHTER)
Dan, can you give 'em the address?
I will, Scotty. You're leading the way in the car.
Holy.
I've got no idea where I'm going.
I'm scared of driving in the city in the first place.
While we're sitting in the car,
I decide to jump straight onto my phone
and have a little sneaky look.
Oh. What?
Nothing.
Give me a look. Nothing.
Jolene. Show me. Show me.
It's Emma and Ben's house that they just sold.
He's like, "What?"
I'm like, "That's Ben and Emma's house
from last year. They just sold it."
I said, "That's where we're going right now."
Last year's contestants, Ben and Emma,
were halfway through renovating their own home
on the Mornington Peninsula
when they got the call to come on the show.
(EMMA SCREAMS)
Oh my god! That's cool.
I'm gonna cry.
They've now finished the reno, and it's been fitted out
by Freedom and Snooze for this year's contestants.
# I know something they don't know, doo-dah doo-dah. #
I still didn't get what you meant.
No.
(ROCK MUSIC)
My first thoughts of pulling up to the house was confusion.
It sunk in very quickly what the situation was going to be.
I thought, "We're in a shared house here."
And then Chantel said...
I got the biggest person. So do we get the main room?
I didn't want to be cooped up in a little double bed.
So I'm like, for sure, like, we need the main bedroom.
And then I realised...
We're gonna have to run in here and choose the best room.
(COMMOTION)
I want a swag.
I don't want this.
I'm concerned that I'm living in a house with all of my competition.
We can't lay the plans down on the kitchen table
and talk turkey, because these guys are...
Yeah.
How's the acoustic control?
I don't want anyone listening in.
Are we actually gonna live here?
My first thoughts of pulling up to the house was confusion.
It sunk in very quickly what the situation was going to be.
I thought, "We're in a shared house here."
And then I realised...
We're gonna have to run in here and choose the best room.
(COMMOTION)
It was chaos. It was like a jungle in there.
A bunch of animals.
I raced upstairs.
Oh, there's names!
So the rooms were pre-chosen for us.
I get to the main bedroom...
It says "Sev and Courtney."
It's been allocated. Chantel and Wyatt, oh, yay!
All the contestants' rooms have been kitted out with comfy beds,
thanks to Snooze, as they will be staying at the share house
for the entire season.
Oh!
I get stuff!
A big bag, Hard Yakka.
Oh, yes!
I was, like, getting into that straight away.
Freedom has provided some comfy furniture for our contestants.
This is so cool!
Everyone's just realising we all got to share.
Like, the bathroom, the shower, and those sort of things.
And the girls get a full ensuite to themselves.
We got this. Oh, my god, look at the wardrobe.
We actually have snagged the main bedroom,
that has the ensuite, a massive wardrobe.
Woo, we're not camping!
I feel like we might have the, like, main room.
And so I'm chuffed.
I'm absolutely stoked.
But Courtney is quickly turning.
We're staying in a bougie Airbnb.
Oh, it's a beautiful house.
I just don't want to stay with the contestants.
I'm not concerned about what room we're in.
I'm concerned that I'm living in a house with all of my competition.
I'm not here for this.
I don't like it at all.
I'm upset. I want a swag.
I don't want this. Oh.
It's like The Block meets Love Island vibes.
Except you don't exchange partners. Except you don't...
Yeah. We just exchange houses. Potentially.
You don't kiss and tell. Yeah. What? Wait, what?
Might have to pull you for a chat later.
Yeah, OK.
Where's the bar? Where's the bar?
I'm just worried about...
Surely there's a bar down here somewhere.
I was the tortoise in the hare race.
I just sat at the back and strolled on in.
Adam. That's me.
You've got a caravan, mate.
It's more my style.
The 23.6ft Titanium caravan.
Look. I'm not mad about that.
We won the lottery with the van. Woo-woo!
Oh, very stoked.
We've just got a little piece of separation there to...
Close the door.
Woo hoo!
There's a beautiful pool and spa, a sauna.
This is me. This is me.
Seeing a gym
definitely was, like, the highlight of my day.
Oh!
This is awesome.
That's so cool. Hydration.
Creatine. Protein bar.
I'll take that one myself. So epic. That's sick.
Wow. Far out.
We're covered. Yeah.
How's the acoustic control? I don't want anyone listening in.
We're just not gonna feel comfortable.
Like, strategising and that.
Not that I think anyone's going to be like...
No. Of course... Having a listen.
I would listen to them. Or maybe. OK, OK.
Maybe people will.
We can't lay the plans down on the kitchen table and talk turkey
because these guys are... Yeah.
And then, like, cut to six weeks' time, you know,
if we're not happy families. Oh my god. Yeah.
Imagine how awkward it's going to be after a Body Corp.
There'll be a divide for sure. And there'll be tension.
There'll be some alliances formed, I reckon.
Who wants a barbie? Let's go.
Yeah. Get cooking.
Yes.
Let's fire it up.
Dad's on the barbie.
The dog's on the barbie.
Look at this. It's all under control.
Woo!
Oh, hello!
(ALL EXCLAIM AND GREET SCOTT)
What a great Aussie scene this is.
I drove up the street and now I'm at The Block share house.
How fantastic is that?
What could possibly go wrong?
And it's a great Aussie dream with a Titanium caravan in the backyard.
And what is that over there? That's the...
SaltPod. It's a gym!
It's the gym!
Sauna!
What's that you got there?
Oh, what have I got here?
You are not going to believe.
These are called a Bunnings PowerPass.
And each one of these cards has got $40,000 on it.
That's so good.
It's starting to add up, isn't it?
A Bunnings credit card.
I mean, I reckon you should be able to build a good house.
Absolutely amazing. Huge amount of money.
Channel Nine is trusting us with a lot of their money.
And a lot of responsibility. Yeah.
With only knowing us for a few days.
Yeah, like, we just met.
But then you got to stop and think,
"How big's the house?"
"Where are we? What finishes do we have to do?"
This ain't no tin shack out in the bush.
Cutting your own posts and throwing a bit of corrugated iron on.
It's a big house. This has to be Mickey Mouse.
It's got to be top notch.
We're like, boom, house plans out.
What are we gonna do here? What are we gonna do there?
The chippies are in there.
Just one thing wrong.
What? We're in the wrong room.
What are youse doin'? Youse are in the wrong bloody room.
(SMOOTH MUSIC)
I wake up and...
Realise you can't walk around in jocks anymore?
Yeah. Because there's people.
I woke up at, what time did you wake me up?
Well, it's strictly... 5:15.
You've got to get up every morning.
I will, Dad. But you didn't have to wake me up that early on day one.
His one's way bigger than yours, mate.
Yeah. Oh, Dwayne the Rock.
Holy...
What he eats for breakfast.
What's for brekkie?
Oats. Oats.
Every day's oats.
Two bowls of large oats with four bananas
and 17 scoops of protein.
And protein shake.
I think everyone's just chomping at the bit.
To get in their cars.
Yeah, everyone's chomping at the bit to get to site
and see what's going on.
Be good to rock up to first.
First day.
(SNEEZES) Bless you. Oh, gosh.
I'm allergic to early mornings.
Courtney, I've never seen you drive so (BLEEP) slow in this world.
Don't you want to stop at McCafe?
Safety doesn't just start on site, Sevilay.
It starts in the car. You don't want to stop at McCafe?
You gonna do a Maccas run for coffee?
No. Thank you so much, Randy.
We're don't have time.
Wow, hey? First day on the tools.
We are on Donkey Kong.
All right, here we (BLEEP) go. Day one.
Let's go.
All of this year's houses have two guest bedrooms and a kids' bedroom,
in addition to the main.
The room that reno newbies, Lisa and Rosco, need to complete
this week is here on the bottom floor of House Four.
Their tradies are already on site and ready to get stuck in.
We've got a lot of decisions we need to make quite quickly this morning.
We're working on this today.
Yeah. So obviously bed along this wall.
There's what, four days 'til reveal?
Oh, wow. Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday... Saturday. Half day Saturday.
So really we've got...
There's three and a half days.
That's actually insane.
Yeah.
We're going for a raw, earthy kind of vibe with our guest bedroom.
We have firstly our Freedom wardrobe,
and then we have our shelf.
And that's like a sort of regular egg-shaped niche
with two shelves in it.
And that's just to give a little point of interest.
It's something you can't easily take out of the room,
so it gives it a bit of a identity and a point of difference
from a room with just four walls that you could, you know,
take everything out of it and it would look
the same as any other room.
What would happen if we put the recess here?
Cool.
All right. Sweet. Happy?
Beautiful.
We've hit the ground running.
We feel like we've hit the builder jackpot.
Just absolutely capable guys.
So the thing about that, if the room doesn't turn out well,
we know it's on us.
Hey, hon? Yeah. Yeah, there's no excuses.
It's the first day on the tools for the contestants this year,
and everyone's getting stuck in.
No, I'm not having fun.
I'm putting a vacuum cleaner together, mate.
How you feeling?
Pretty good. Yeah, pumped.
Gonna hit the ground running.
It is the first day of The Block today, officially,
so... First day of building.
Yeah. So we're gonna hit the ground running today.
We're going to start doing our guest room
so we can win this damn challenge.
House Two's challenge room is located in the middle of the ground floor.
You got big plans for this room?
Uh, I do, yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to get it all exactly,
you know, get all the measurements, get it all worked out
so we can do, like, lighting
and make sure the cupboard door opens
because we know the judges hate that.
Yes.
We have decided to go with more of an old luxury vibe
that was on my mood board.
We're sticking with our original plan.
It's on brief with a slight tweak, which is what we need to do
is to give it our own personality.
Their old luxury tweak will include moulding on the walls,
beige minimalist cabinetry, and a bed heaped with white linen.
You know, I'm just like back on site,
so I think I'm feeling a bit more comfortable in it.
13 mil carpet, ten mil underlay. OK.
It's just like riding a bike, you know? Yeah.
And Wyatt, you, on the other hand, how are you feeling?
You look a little bit nervous, mate.
Yeah. I mean, just got to get into the swing of things, I guess.
So I do online coaching.
Um, I have an online coaching business.
I do some support work.
Um, I also do a little bit of retail a couple of days a week,
and I do some acting and some extras work
when I can pick those roles up.
(HUMS)
For me, being on a job site, that's not normal.
So I'm trying to learn all these skills,
all these, like, terminologies.
Hey guys, is this all the ceiling battens and stuff?
Is that what this is?
That's the shaft. Shaft? Sweet.
All right, I'll go check.
It's like, almost like your first day of school.
We can either do it on flat or build another whole wall this way.
From what you see watching the show to what it's like,
like I expected behind the scenes,
there was probably a little bit more help in certain areas,
but you really do just get thrown in the deep end
and you got to make it work.
Off to TRUECORE.
Where is TRUECORE?
Do you reckon TRUECORE's like...
They're not even here, are they? It's a stitch up.
This week, the teams are competing to win the house
they want to take to auction.
Winner of the guest room this week
will get to pick the house they keep.
It's a challenge and a half.
The house decider I think is one of the biggest challenges
on the whole show, I think.
Some people are going to be pretty upset
and it's going to be pretty tense.
Yeah. Straight away.
It's massive because it can shape the course of the whole Block
for the rest of the 12 weeks.
It's quite scary.
Well, it is. It's the decider of our future.
Yeah.
It'll pay dividends to secure
the right house and in turn, get us a bigger win.
This is now the most important week in the competition
as far as we're concerned.
The house we want is number four.
We know we need this house if we're going to win The Block.
But to get that highest price at auction,
you also need to create the best house for this market.
And as our Blockheads learned from Judge Darren Palmer
previously on Promos Day,
the Mount Eliza market is very particular.
# I do my hair toss
# Check my nails Baby, how you feeling?
# Feeling good as hell. #
We see a massive hot air balloon on the oval.
There is makeup. There's hair. It's going.
The hustle and bustle is...
Yeah, it's just happening.
I walked into the room and I just see Shaynna standing there.
Thank you.
(SQUEALS) (LAUGHTER)
I wasn't actually expecting to see her ever,
because normally they do the judging when we're not there.
So the fact that she was just standing there...
You're like a vision.
Oh my god! More!
She was glowing. She was like a light.
# Damn, I wish I was your lover. #
(OVERLAPPING GREETINGS)
Dazza. Big Dazza.
Star struck. And Shelley.
Shelley's gorgeous. She just gets better and better.
(SCREAMING)
Wow. Like a... He is so good looking in person. Yeah.
Damn.
Now, this is exciting for you
because you normally wouldn't meet the judges so early on.
And this is exciting for you because you are not allowed to talk to them
usually for a little while yet.
This is the thing, guys. Yes.
So because I judge you, I don't get to tell you
what I think you should do.
Fortunately for you, I am not judging you this Sunday.
Shaynna Blaze and Marty Fox are judging.
And Alice Stolz from Domain.
So what that means for you is I can tell you what I think
you should do, ideally, in Mount Eliza
to sell your houses, based on data.
You've got one of the hardest briefs that I think
has been set on The Block,
because Mount Eliza buyers are really specific
and they want really specific things.
The vibe is quiet luxury.
And if you don't know what quiet luxury looks like,
I'm going to put it to you like this.
A good person to think about who is a billionaire,
who lives in a quiet luxury home is Kim Kardashian.
Build a house for Kim Kardashian.
That seems really weird.
Maybe that's the fat furniture bit because her arse is that...
You can't say that!
Well, when you say Kim Kardashian,
all I think of is bum. Don't you think?
Do you want to die today?
You aren't designing Kim Kardashian as a house.
You're designing the Axel Vervoordt version that she lives in, right?
There's a difference between the buyer and the home.
So if you haven't looked up Axel Vervoordt,
do yourself a favour.
Darren did give us a brief of Kim Kardashian's designer.
That's great news for me.
I'm a big fan of Kim's home.
It's like ultra minimalism, which I absolutely love.
You got that?
(MUMBLES) Ver...
He's Dutch.
Volkanovski.
Brendan Fevola.
Yeah, similar to that.
As soon as we heard that, I instantly felt that
we had to pivot quite quickly.
The brief is, roughly, white light and bright.
OK? Buyer here doesn't like rustic.
They don't like dark.
They don't like a whole bunch of timber panelling.
That's not the vibe.
He started saying things like, "Don't do timber panelling,
don't do block colours..." "Don't do walnut."
And everything he was saying out loud,
I was like, that's what I was gonna do.
I just sort of thought, oh my gosh, I've stitched us up.
And I was like, I've got this all wrong.
Go back to Freedom.
Yeah. Hey...
This is day two. You got lucky.
And I'm just going to remind you,
last year in Daylesford, the contestants that won
the challenge to choose a home then went on to win The Block.
You do have high stakes this weekend.
How are you feeling, Sev? What's going on?
Uh, um... You right? Yeah.
We... We missed the brief a little bit.
Um, so everything she's been dreaming of and wanting to do
and really, truly believed was the right fit for this area,
she's throwing in the bin and starting again
and it's obviously really upsetting.
Shook. I'm really shook,
and I just want to be able to get the house,
like, it's a big challenge.
Uptown in House Three,
experienced design and construction duo,
Courtney and Sev, are still reeling after judge Darren Palmer's
styling advice at the promo shoot.
After we see Darren Palmer,
we called Freedom straight away
and they said no. No chance.
No chance. It's on a truck. It's loaded up.
Um, it's too late.
Your blue doors are coming.
Sev and Courtney's guest bedroom is on the ground floor of House Three.
To bring their colour palette in line with Darren's brief,
they are no longer planning to colour drench their walls in dark blue
and also have a new plan to lighten
the blue Freedom wardrobe doors that they have already chosen,
which will need approval from foreman, Dan.
I've got a big question.
OK.
It's a goodie. Um, so, I buggered up a little bit. Uh...
Already? Yeah. I may have got a blue cabinet.
And then Darren came and was like, "It needs to be light.
It needs to be airy, it needs to be coastal."
So your joinery is blue?
Mm. Um, so I was wondering whether you'd be able to get me approval on
being able to do like a micro cement finish over the Freedom doors.
So micro cementing is a beautiful finish that primarily is found
in more Japandi and Mediterranean type of interiors.
So the face of the joinery,
we want to add a product over the top of it.
Yeah. The micro cement. Paint it on. Yeah.
Are you sure that's what you want to do though?
Like... Yeah. Don't do that.
I'm just like... What's your concerns with it?
Yeah, what's wrong?
Uh, I have many concerns personally, but...
Did you say many? Many. Yeah.
Oh, from a chipping perspective?
Yeah. Well, yeah. Scratching. Chipping.
How's it going to look? What are the judges going to think?
I had the judges at the forefront of this whole design exploration
of micro cement.
I'm mentally preparing
that they will be upset at the prospect of it.
As any designer would.
There's a lot of pressure.
We decided. We're doing it.
Yeah, that's fine. You can do that.
Yeah. That'd be OK.
He's given us the go ahead.
And that's a good thing?
Yes. It's really good news. It's, yeah, it's definitely...
He just did it in a little bit of a reluctant type of tone.
I just don't want to say it's a great idea
and then you get slammed at judging. Yeah.
Because we are playing, like, if you win this week
and choose the house you want,
you are potentially going to win The Block.
Yeah.
So every decision this week is so critical.
Yeah.
We 100% back ourselves.
And I think we're gonna get it done.
We're gonna make it happen.
We're gonna get it done and we're gonna win.
Staying strong.
There's definitely a lot of people, there's a lot of hustle and bustle
and there's a lot of noise.
Like House Two and Three,
House One's guest bedroom is located in the middle of their ground floor.
I think it looks better.
It looks better as a, like, built-in.
Agree. We're like boom, house plans out.
Boom, right, this is the room.
What are we gonna do here? What are we gonna do there?
The chippies are in there, setting it all out.
Running around like...
And then who walks in?
Morning, gang. How are we?
Dan.
Off to a flying start. Got our builders here,
ready to rock and roll. Yeah, they're cracking.
Yeah. Just one thing wrong.
What? We're in the wrong room.
Right now, Adam and Jolene are standing in this room
at the back of the house,
with their build team planning out the wrong space.
Adam and Jolene, they were in the wrong room.
They were at the back of the house. It was pitch black.
The room they walked past was lit up.
There was the bulkhead there, ready for the wardrobes.
Pretty obvious. Straight past it to the back room,
thinking they're doing this other area,
so I had to pull them up and show them where to go.
I love it, love the enthusiasm.
Why you got to be nasty?
It's early and you're nasty.
See the one with the lights on,
ready to rock and roll? This is us.
Oh. Yeah.
We didn't get the memo.
So you were in the wrong room.
Well, we just thought we'd...
Well, to me, a guest room has an ensuite.
That's... That's how I see it.
So, um...
Yeah, I think maybe miscommunication. But anyway.
We learnt a lesson. At least we didn't start.
One team who have made a big start this morning
is experienced builder, Rick, and his daughter, Tayla,
downtown in House Five.
We are so excited for first day on The Block.
We're heads down, bums up. Head down, arse up, yeah.
Give me another one.
# Go, Ricky Go, Ricky... #
Got it.
My first day as an apprentice.
We gotta hit the ground running.
# Go, Ricky... #
All over it!
Yo.
What's going on?
We're just into it, Dan. We've got the insulation going up.
Good or great?
The workmanship is great. But what?
We're in the wrong room.
What are youse doin'? Youse are in the wrong bloody room.
No, we're not. Yeah, we are.
Didn't you tell us it was here?
No.
Guest bedroom.
No. We're actually over in this bed.
They powered ahead of the rest of the teams
and nearly finished insulating their guest suite.
The only problem is they should be working
on the other side of the house
in their guest bedroom.
See, we're working over here. (BLEEP).
We was told, we were told guest room.
I don't know what's going on. Well, we're supposed to be over in here.
Oh my (BLEEP) god.
Rick wasn't too impressed.
Um, so all that good work out the window.
Start from scratch again.
Dad, you're a builder.
It says guest room!
(BLEEP).
This week, it's a fight to the finish line to see
who will get first pick of the houses.
We've blown the budget this week, Scotty.
I told you not to blow the budget! It was only yesterday.
We felt like we'd been kind of working really hard.
So how are we already so far behind?
You are just too blase for me.
And you just need to not be like that.
She just started to make me doubt my decisions.
Maybe it might not be quiet luxury.
It might be a little bit loud luxury.
It honestly just feels like my whole world is just, like, falling apart.
One team breaks the first rule of The Block.
I know what I'd do as a contestant. What?
I'd be disqualifying 'em.
I'm, like, infuriated. It's gone past orange and red
and it's straight to, like, black.
Anyone that questions my integrity is (BLEEP) dead to me.
"You are dead to me."
The game's on now.
Then the challenge bedrooms are revealed.
Wow!
Oh my goodness. Look at this.
See, this is luxury.
It engages the senses.
This is the brief that has been hit out of the ballpark.
Alice said, "It feels like they're just phoning it in."
Doesn't have any personality or soul in it.
No, nothing. It's...
It's a terrible room.
I know this is harsh, but I don't think these guys
are worthy of The Block, in what I'm seeing here.
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I don't feel like I want to stay.
No. No.
Neither.