SCOTT: Previously, our Blockheads built
one of their most important rooms, their kitchen...
I'm freaking out. (WOMEN LAUGH)
The kitchen is essentially the heartbeat of the house.
Moral of the story is, like, don't botch the kitchen.
KEITH: Massive week. BRETT: It is.
..but for Leah, the pressure was just too much.
But just with this kitchen now,
it's like I really... (CRIES) could...
completely stuff it.
And that wasn't the only breakdown,
as the relationship between house five and their builder
reached breaking point.
We're not having fun. MARK: Yeah.
We're not happy. We're not sleeping.
There's definitely an awkward and uncomfortable tension in the air.
But the show must go on and five amazing kitchens stunned the judges.
Whoa! DARREN: Yum!
NEALE: Absolutely gorgeous.
And that wasn't the only surprise.
Despite saying goodbye to their builders,
the sisters got their very first room win of the season...
It's the girls!
(APPLAUSE)
..and shocked everyone with their secret gnome.
LEAH: You think you know someone laying in the bed next to you.
Tonight, we're back upstairs
as our Blockheads begin their master ensuites.
STEPH: So all that's the shower and where you are, Gian, is the seat.
We have so many things to get done.
(LAUGHS) Yeah! MAN: Yeah?
Have you ever thought of putting, like, little holes in here?
My favourite thing is the foot niches.
I love that idea.
And with an enormous task ahead, expectations are high.
KRISTY: Waterproof Tuesday.
You were pretty confident last week, mate.
And I deliver the biggest announcement of the season...
It's time for the Domain listings and buyers' jury.
..with the biggest challenge cash prize ever.
The team that gets the most votes from the buyers will win...
$50,000.
What? Oh, my gosh!
(SQUEALS) 50K!
(SQUEALS) Huge.
(SQUEALS)
(BOTH LAUGH) Insane.
$50,000. 50 G-bars.
Are you joking?
(GULLS CRY)
This week really started last night
when the sisters went head-to-head with Kristy.
ELIZA: Scotty? SCOTT: Yes?
We would like to use our gnome, please.
It's a secret gnome.
You've been hiding it and holding it for a long time.
Oh, girls, honestly.
You think you know someone laying in the bed next to you.
Winner of week seven on The Block, kitchen week...
Here we go. It's the girls!
(APPLAUSE) Thanks, Scotty.
Oh, second gnome steal.
(BLEEP) Ah... Give a (BLEEP), eh?
I'm gonna need my hat.
PRODUCER: Thoughts?
BRETT: Yeah, uh... Well, funny you should ask, right?
We're not shocked, by any means.
But the secret gnome, seriously...
Kristy stormed into a studio and said "Get my hat"
to one of the producers
and I said to the producer, "Is that a conspiracy theory
"how they think us winning was a bit of a stitch-up?"
No conspiracy theories. I know there's chat about that.
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
No, but I know it's legit that you guys think we get special treatment,
which we don't.
LEAH: So we all sat down and they explained how they got the gnome.
We won the breakdancing challenge, won the medals.
"You've got a secret gnome. You can use it whenever you want to."
ELIZA: The secret gnome stuff
was taken well by everyone except house three.
This was not anything tonight but a joke, so let's just make that clear.
We are very happy that you got a ten.
The gnome thing was definitely something that we were,
like, "Of course it is."
For us, as things progress, we see things unravel
and we're just, you know, calling it as we see it.
But are we saying that you do get an extra hand? 100%. So you have...
Well, I'm kind to people, so they're kind back to me.
Yeah, special treatment.
Definitely not the case, Eliza, so calm down.
I don't like mean people, I don't like disrespectful people,
I don't like unkind people
and everything that they have to say is completely unfounded,
it's completely made up.
If they ever stopped once to ask us about anything,
they would have found answers.
I just feel like you're in no position to be giving us direction
on what we should be doing,
where we're coming to you, being, like,
"You're getting stuff done for you"
and you're, like, "Be nicer to people."
LEAH: Well, I mean, we've been together for eight weeks
and we've only ever seen Eliza and Lib really happy
and light-hearted and...
ASH: Tired. Yeah, or tired.
Yeah. And, like, covered in paint...
And I've never, ever... Yep.
..seen her in a really direct, assertive way...
Yeah. ..and it threw me.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Wow-(BLEEP)-wee.
Eliza was deeply personally upset
with Kristy and Brett's reaction to the conspiracy.
I don't know why that got like that.
I really don't.
I've never seen Eliza like that.
'Cause that's the real Eliza and we've only just seen it.
I was sick that they were upset, I was sick about the confrontation
and I felt deeply uncomfortable. Yeah.
ELIZA: Leah, Ash, Brett and Kristy
talk disgustingly to people...
Are you joking me?
..and so they might not get that much respect in return.
They're playing a strategic game of being, like,
"If we pretend, like, we don't know what we're doing,
"we'll get things done for us."
We're not a part of those conspiracies
but we hear about how they've come to those opinions
and how they talk about them.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know if we should be talking about your conspiracies.
What do you (BLEEP) mean? I don't know.
So it's sort of hard for us to ignore everything.
I'm getting so scared.
Yeah, but I'm with you by association.
So what? You don't have to be.
Everyone came back to ours, meaning the girls and Kyle and Leslie
and we just wanted to celebrate them.
Oh, could you imagine if you just won with the gnome?
When you said "Excuse me..." LIBERTY: Mmm.
..I was on... I was, like...
We played the secret gnome in judging for kitchen week
because we were neck-and-neck with Kristy and Brett
after the first two rounds of votes.
Just couldn't afford to draw or not win.
Even if you didn't use the gnome
and you just went "Let's just take a chance..." Yeah.
..one, there still would've been an issue.
I agree. 100%.
I mean, at the end of the day, we won fair and square without it,
so I just don't understand why there was an issue.
I don't want to play dirty with them. Did I say things...
No, I like the way that you said, "If you've got something to say..."
You handled yourself amazingly. Yeah.
There's just a real air of bitterness
and bad sport-ness going on
and it's unfortunately penetrating...
you know, penetrating our joy.
OK. Thanks, guys. Bedtime, everyone.
Yeah. Goodnight.
Congratulations. Thank you.
You absolutely deserved the win.
Yeah, it's just... It boiled over for me
and I think they were quite shocked to have someone stand up to them
and take them on at a level that they take other people on.
So we went back and house two came over.
We had a few drinks.
Isn't it amazing how Eliza's...
"I'm so lovely, I'm so go with the flow, I'm just a girl..."
(LAUGHS MOCKINGLY)
went out the window tonight
and her character was a completely different character tonight?
So, the thing is,
I've labelled Eliza's blow-up character 'Unlocked'.
Hey, who's this new character?
And trying to show her teeth
and trying to be really passive-aggressive
or trying to, you know, attack Kristy, in a way.
It just showed, in my opinion, a complete different version.
So, which one's real, which one's been here for the last seven weeks
and which one are we gonna get for the rest?
Also, while we're at it, didn't really care for them anyway
and, look, I don't care.
For me personally, I'm, like, "We've got nothing to lose.
"Let's just (BLEEP) burn it down."
This week is gonna be super interesting.
SCOTT: That is quite an understatement.
I would say this week is going to be cataclysmic.
LEAH: I think I even said to Kristy, like,
"I'm quite concerned that we're becoming a foursome
"and a real package deal here.
"I know you and Brett share some pretty strong opinions."
It's like a surface-level friendship that was light-hearted and fun.
It's turned toxic.
We are not sharing the same whole conspiracy stuff as house three.
LIBERTY: We're doing everything possible to convince people
that we don't get special favours
because they think we're, like, essentially cheating.
If you're not kind to people,
they're most likely not gonna be kind back to you.
It's gonna be bad. It's wrong.
But you can't be that angry. You can't be like that.
It's not angry. There's, like, anger and then there's not caring.
That does not align with us.
This is a different person right now.
Sometimes what is good for you can equally be bad for you.
Your wife is dead to me.
When it comes to judging, there will be unbelievable reveals.
MARTY: Here we go.
This is pretty spectacular.
SHAYNNA: It's elegant, it's classy. It's beautiful.
They're really trying.
I hate it. I honestly feel like I'm in a quarantine facility.
And an ending you won't see coming.
Winner of week eight... Are you ready?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
# Oh, tell me, do you hate me or do you... #
SCOTT: It's master ensuite week and our teams are working upstairs
next to the master bedrooms they built back in week six.
Now, in house one, you may have noticed a recurring theme.
Yep, they love curves and this week is no exception.
We have gone to Pete from Truecore
and he's made some arches for us.
PRODUCER: Are you guys doing arches? No way!
Oh, get out. Arches in house one. Who would've thought?
SCOTT: The 'arch-athon' continues in house one's ensuite,
which they will build upstairs next to their walk-in robe.
The arches - well, half arches, actually -
they will form an entrance to a double shower with a shelf.
Each side will feature its own vanity, curved mirror and towel rack,
all within house one's usual muted colour scheme.
Toilet's gonna be in this corner. Toilet in this corner?
Door opens in this way, so it sort of hides the toilet
and when you shut it... It doesn't...
The door opens the other way? Yep.
Door opens both ways.
(LAUGHS) It's a saloon-style door, is it?
Alright, we'll come back and we'll confirm that one.
Hinging the door's not an issue.
Are we tiling all the way to the ceiling?
Have you seen the ceiling height? Please say no.
Not happening. Remember, budget.
Budget. Yeah. Need some for the... Remember painting.
Oh, yes, remember painting. Yeah.
Sounds good? That sounds like a plan.
I think the separate vanities and that entrance way...
Yeah, the actual arches. (HINGE SQUEAKING SOUND EFFECT)
..into the shower is definitely the hero.
Mmm.
Yeah, not having any glass or shower screen or anything like that
and creating quite a private sort of...
(HINGE SQUEAKING SOUND EFFECT) ..shower.
Parental retreat. (SPRING UNCOILING SOUND EFFECT)
SCOTT: Next door, Leah and Ash have a very big plan for their ensuite,
which will be situated upstairs, flowing on from their walk-in robe.
I wanted it super luxurious,
the missing puzzle of, like, the retreat
and I just wanted it to be very day-spa-like.
Leah and Ash's spa-inspired ensuite will have a curved cave-like shower
with an arched door,
sconce lighting, a double vanity and two mirrors.
It will also feature pops of colour
drawn from their floormat and styling.
I can try and get a mosaic from Beaumont.
So, all the internal of this shower will be a mosaic.
I want to try and get the biggest vanity possible.
You want to go the whole way?
Like, we want this to be an epic ensuite.
Right. This all looks good.
Do you want to go upstairs and have a quick look in the space?
Let's go. Yeah.
Kristy and Brett are the only team who haven't won a room reveal yet,
so money is tight in house three.
This week, they're taking a low-key, cost-effective approach
to their ensuite.
We're really tying it down this week.
We're not amping it up in the space.
Keeping it pretty simplistic
with the colouring that we did from the master bedroom.
The South Aussies' ensuite will be upstairs, first room on the left
as you enter their gigantic master suite.
They're planning a double shower with floor-to-ceiling KitKat tiles
and fluted glass screens,
a vanity with dual sinks and mirrors,
all perched on large-format white floor tiles.
So we're going to replicate a similar version
of what our downstairs bathroom looks like.
We're going to keep with the same colouring of tiles,
trying to lighten up the floor to create that really light space.
Cool, cool.
The only difference is we're not doing
any Venetian plaster this week. Yeah.
That's alright. Try and save some money there.
Not having the Venetian plaster has definitely, definitely paid off
on our budget perspective.
And we're in Truecore, so this will be...
Light work, baby. Light work.
Alright. Easy breezy.
And... Mmm.
Waterproof Tuesday. Now he's "Maybe."
Dan, you were pretty confident last week, mate.
Waterproof Tuesday? Don't hold your breath.
Over in house four,
Steph is drilling the ensuite details into their builder.
Because we have so many things to get done,
it was a lot.
Steph and Gian's upstairs ensuite, once complete,
will be the largest master retreat in the series.
It's such a big, big ensuite,
so we're obviously making it a really large shower
and then, within the shower, we have a bench seat.
So all that's the shower and where you are, Gian, is the seat...
The seat. ..that goes all the way down and across.
Their grey-tiled bench seat
will sit under a double shower with gunmetal tapware.
As usual, our resident architect is trying something different,
having mirrors in front of the window above the vanity
and she's also using James Hardie fine-texture cladding
in place of wall tiles.
An architect is literally to make you think about things differently
and it's, like, the biggest compliment when people say
that I'm doing things in a different way
because I have to challenge form and function.
I'm not doing a shower niche. What are your thoughts on it?
I want a niche. Where do you put a niche?
On the wall. Put them underneath.
Can you put them underneath both showers? Yep.
OK. No worries, if that's what you want.
I think niches are a must.
I don't think we should be putting,
like, shampoos and conditioners on the seat.
Let's leave that as a seat.
Alright. I have a meeting now with Peter from Truecore.
Alright. Well, 'Big G', you're with me.
The one benefit of you not winning is you're here.
I know.
Speaking of winning...
How are we? Hug.
Alright. Hug. Hug.
..last night's room winners, Eliza and Liberty,
are welcoming their brand-new build team.
Congratulations. Hi, guys.
The sisters' upstairs master ensuite will be built here,
next to their walk-in robe.
I mean, it's just good that we've got things right
with the building front
because, you know, the drama front is obviously heating up
and I just don't... I think it will be too much dealing with both.
The sisters are planning a mix of large-format and KitKat tiles
up to a raked ceiling.
They'll have a floating timber vanity,
double mirrors and luxury gold fittings
and their secret weapon, foot niches in the shower.
You put your leg on it and shave them...
Like, shave your feet or legs. Well, just shave your legs.
Shave your feet? (LAUGHS) Bizarre.
In your foot niche. Foot niche...
My favourite thing is the foot niches.
The girls are really positive and we try and just pump them up
and get them excited 'cause it is an exciting experience, so...
And it's life-changing, you know what I mean, for people
so, we want to make this fun and enjoyable.
We have a lot of fun in what we do, so, yeah.
Feeling confident. Backing ourselves.
We're backing ourselves
and, yeah, like, this is the start for us,
which is weird, with five weeks to go, but it's cool.
We've learned a lot and now we're on the right track. Yep.
Coming up, the biggest cash prize for a challenge in Block history.
$50,000! MAN: Oh!
WOMAN: Oh...
(SQUEALS)
50K.
(SQUEALS) Huge.
STEPH: Huge.
(SQUEALS, LAUGHS)
ASH: Insane. $50,000.
50 G-bars. Are you joking?
If we don't win it, that's very, very dangerous... Yeah.
..for someone else to have. Yeah.
(GULLS CRY)
G'day, Blockheads. Shelley Craft here.
And when the sawing stops, the banter begins
on the official Block podcast.
Every Monday night, I catch up with contestants, judges...
Whoa!
..and all your favourites, so join me on the official Block podcast on 9Now
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SCOTT: It's week eight
and master ensuites are underway.
Now, two months ago, the houses look liked this
and in just five weeks, they've got to look like this.
Getting there is going to need plenty of cash,
so that's why I've called them down for a special announcement.
Well, good morning. ALICE: Hello. Good morning.
You're so well-trained, it's so beautiful.
You're coming in in the right house order.
Amazing. ELIZA: Always.
I know you're head down, bum up with your master ensuites
but have I got some news for you!
It's incredible. I'm excited.
Before we get into that, I'd like to welcome Alice Stolz,
Domain's resident property expert.
Now, we all know that The Block
is the toughest real estate competition in the country
and when you speak about The Block and real estate,
it's all about attracting buyers, isn't it?
Alice, how do we attract buyers to these guys' houses?
Firstly, you need to create an absolutely knockout listing
that's gonna make buyers want to inspect your houses.
Second of all, you're gonna have to have an unforgettable open house.
OK. So, guess what your challenge is this week.
That's right, it's time for the Domain listings and buyers' jury.
First up, you're gonna work with your real estate agents
to create a standout Domain listing
that showcases your house as the best on The Block.
You're gonna have to have beautiful imagery... Mmm.
..concise and succinct words that summarise your property.
Yes.
And then you're gonna need to talk about the wow factor. Mmm.
What is it about your house that makes it better
than the one next door? OK.
Once you've done that, then you are gonna host 100 potential buyers
in your homes
and you've gotta impress them because they are gonna vote
for the house that they love the best.
Now, to help you impress them,
I rang up my mates at Levantine Hill and they have delivered that...
Oh, yeah. Oooh. That's gonna help. Nice.
..for you guys to share amongst yourselves to lubricate your buyers.
(LAUGHS)
If you're gonna ask people to spend millions of dollars on your homes,
you need them to be drinking fine wines...
Yes. ..don't you? Yes. Absolutely.
Now, speaking of dollars, have I mentioned the pri...
Have I mentioned the prize yet? No, not yet.
I don't think you have, Scotty. Oh!
I'm getting old. (LAUGHTER)
I'm starting to forget.
The team that gets the most votes from the buyers on the night
will win $50,000.
What? Oh, my god!
50,000!
(SQUEALS) Insane.
$50,000. 50 G-bars.
Are you joking?
$50,000 thanks to Domain.
Huge prize from Domain. Like, huge. Huge.
LEAH: What?
50 grand? LIBERTY: 50 grand?
GIAN: Five-zero?
Imagine winning the challenge and then winning on the Sunday.
Yeah. Oh, and getting tens. (GASPS)
If you got three tens, a room win and a 50K, that's a 90K week.
Oh, my god!
If I was you, I'd get on the blower
to my real estate agent immediately...
Yep. Mmm. ..and get the ball rolling.
$50,000 is too much money.
I almost wish it wasn't that much
because if we don't win it, that's very, very dangerous... Yeah.
..for someone else to have. Yeah.
Taking my advice, the Blockheads are straight onto their agents.
SAM: (ON PHONE) What? What's this?
So we get to see your skills kick off early, mate.
Maybe if you guys could brainstorm some ideas
to kind of make our open stand out on the day to the buyer.
Yeah. Amazing. That'd be awesome.
There's so many parts and pieces that go into it,
so you've gotta do your Domain listing,
which is inclusive of your photographs,
obviously your cleaning you're associated with
before the photographs
and you've gotta get a copy... for your write-up.
You've got your headlines, you've got your blurb,
you've got your descriptions, your bedrooms, your land size,
all of those sorts of things,
then you clean and then you have an event. (LAUGHS)
GIAN: Hey, Marin, how are you? MARIN: Good, mate. How you going?
Good, good.
We've just been told about the Domain listing challenge.
Fantastic.
I know, I know.
JOSH: Here we go. Yeah. Yep. Here we go.
We just found out about this,
so we've got quite a few bits to get going.
STEPH: Yeah, we're gonna have to do quite a bit of work
between now and then.
All hands on deck.
But we know you and the team at Ray White are completely capable,
so let's just go through it.
Are you sitting down?
MARIN: Yeah, I am sitting down.
Apart from their real estate agents,
the sisters in house five are also getting advice
from Hipages expert Tom,
who has been through this challenge before.
TOM: What's happening?
I know you're very, very hard at work as always...
As always. OK, we need some advice.
We've got these open for inspections on Thursday
and we need to win 'cause it's 50 grand.
You need to tell us... 50 grand?
50 grand. Did you have...
No. No. No.
What did you have? We got the povo pack. We got ten.
Ten. Ten grand. 50 grand!
OK, so, what do we need to do to make it excellent?
Have you spoken to your real estate agents?
We have briefly. Yes.
Get them to organise finger food... Yep.
..champagne glasses or wine glasses. Yep.
Even a little bit of music... Yep.
..if you can... Yep.
You could even use Hipages... Oh, yeah?
..to find, you know, cleaning services...
Yep. ..if you like.
And you'll get someone real quick from Hipages.
Meanwhile, back at house four,
the looming arrival of 100 prospective buyers
has thrown Steph into a planning frenzy.
But I want to clear the site as much as possible,
sort of create more of a journey.
I'm probably gonna demolish a few walls
so that it can be slightly more open in areas that...
Yeah, probably get a temporary deck down.
Alright. Well, there's a lot to do. (LAUGHS)
PRODUCER: How's your wife going with this challenge?
She...
is going...well.
It's a big deal. I need a big scope wall.
She's not going well.
She basically is trying to create a full walk-through experience
which involves existing scaffold being removed
to re-create the front entrance of the room.
She also toyed with temporary decking for people to walk through.
I think she's just...
There's too many creative juices going on.
Can you relax?
Why? You're becoming...
Gian, a lot needs to happen between now and then.
Definitely, the way which I want 100 people to be walking through
has got to be curated.
Jacket's coming off.
I need this to be able to be open.
They're not gonna move scaffold for you.
They're not moving scaffold.
They will not move scaffold.
Why won't they?
I'm just saying, they won't move it.
I'm very passionate. Gian is not as passionate.
He's just, like, super conservative.
"Oh, like, can that happen? Can that happen?"
I mean, we've got 50,000 things running through my head.
We just found out. So, yep.
I want to be able to open these doors
for when people come so they can see the expansiveness of it.
Yeah, they... I don't even want that wall now.
There. I want to open this up.
I want people to actually enter through the house
the way that they will be.
I don't want to be entering through here. This is the garage.
I think...
I think YOU should be terrified.
What are you gonna do? "Hey, welcome to my construction site.
"Sorry, just step over that because..."
Why? No.
Help.
Call help.
I don't know how I'm gonna get this all done. I gotta go.
(GULLS CRY)
SCOTT: With a 50-grand Domain jury prize up for grabs,
everyone is planning big.
Thursday night, it's, like, all out.
I want to do the most insane stuff.
Like, I've been banging on that Elton John's gonna buy my house.
I want to find an Elton John impersonator, bring a piano, do it.
I want to find flamingos...
First of all, I need to call Elton John or a lookalike.
(LAUGHS) Then we need to get a cool car.
We need to talk about catering. I need to talk to my agents.
I need... Well, we. Yeah.
You've got to go... You've got to go to Reece.
That's right.
As well as a challenge, there is an ensuite to build
and that means shopping for fixtures and fittings.
(PLAYFUL VERSION OF 'THE WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE' PLAYS)
(STEPH LAUGHS)
This one. Yeah!
This is the one. (LAUGHS) MAN: Yeah?
LESLIE: I'll just show you my tile choice.
MAN: Oh, yeah? Please.
We had the travertine... Mmm.
..basin top that you're doing for me. Yep.
KRISTY: We used the 3-D planner today, so that was awesome.
Then it makes it so much easier picking sizing of things.
One of my favourite visits is going to Reece.
They serve me food...
while I sit on toilets.
(LAUGHS)
(LEAH LAUGHS)
What's she eating?
A muffin.
But for kitchen week winners Eliza and Liberty,
it's time to enjoy their Ford getaway.
Our builders literally started
and we said we have to go down to the Mornington Peninsula
and enjoy some time in the hot springs
and have dinner with Scotty.
Farewell. We will never return.
Yew!
Thank you. Bye.
# Strawberries on a summer evening
# Baby, you're the end of June... #
Look at my fingernails. I mean, how awful.
We're not worthy. Yeah, we are not worthy.
We had a night of glamping at the Peninsula Hot Springs.
Whoo!
Popped some champagne and had a couple of cheese and bickies
and then we realised that our cheese platter was a little bit wobbly.
What's underneath it?
(CASH REGISTER DINGS) (SCREAMS)
We lifted that up and found our 10K.
Who lives like this,
drinking champagne, holding big wads of cash?
The timing... Is perfect.
..could not have been better. Yep.
Everything's crisp and clean
and smells like cleanliness, don't you reckon?
Glorious, yep. And relaxation.
Oh! Oh, my god!
My body just shut down!
Oh, my god. That is heaven.
We literally were in there for about 30 seconds
and we could've fallen asleep - we were both on the verge.
And when we hopped in, then the water went brown.
Yeah, because we're so dirty. (LAUGHS)
Who would you rather be with?
Anyone else?
(BOTH LAUGH)
Wouldn't rather do this with anyone else but you.
(ROOSTER CROWS)
Oh, god. That's so good.
Good morning, ladies.
(SCREAMS) Hi, Scotty.
Oh! I've been up since 4:30 this morning.
I've been in the spas... Oh...
(LAUGHS) I've done yoga. Stop it.
Scotty interrupted, which we don't mind.
Pizza for breakfast. What about for a health retreat...
Mmm. They're serving pizza for breakfast.
Yeah, yeah, I'm into it. It's unreal.
This is my kind of health retreat. Me too. Yeah. Same.
Girls, what about the win?
10,000 bucks. Mmm.
A lot of pressure on the budget and it must've also...
And a lot of tension on The Block between you girls and other parties.
Mm-hm. Yeah.
So the win must've relieved a lot of that tension.
Absolutely.
Well, it relieved tension financially but...
Escalated it. (LAUGHS)
..escalated the tension on The Block.
With relationships. Yeah. Mmm.
With other contestants. Because people weren't happy.
No.
Yeah, it was a dampener on our win, Sunday night,
the controversy that ensued.
There's conspiracy theory ideas... Mmm.
..floating around, accusations flying around...
Yeah, that you're...
..that, you know, we achieved what we did
because we get extra help and special treatment.
Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Yeah. It couldn't.
In fact, we do a little bit of work...
well, Nine In Six do for everybody. Yeah. Exactly.
With houses two and three, if they asked a few more questions,
they would see that's all legitimate
but they're all sort of sticking to themselves
and creating little narratives that aren't happening.
We've not said one word to them.
I mean, I'm quite happy, in passing, to say hello...
but there just has been head down, charge on through.
But we're pumped.
I'll tell you what, I've got a key in my pocket.
OK. It's fantastic.
Scotty Cam presented us with our Arnott's Bikkies toolbox...
This is your Arnott's Big Bikkies. God!
Undo that.
..which had another 10K in it for getting our ten!
(CASH REGISTER DINGS) (EXCLAIMS)
We kind of came on this being, like,
we just hope we don't come last every week
and the fact that we won kitchen week,
which is, in our opinion, the best week to win
and we got a ten
is so far outside of anything we ever imagined,
so we couldn't be happier.
Oh, my god. This is amazing.
Thank you, Shaynna... Thank you, Shaynna.
..for giving us a ten.
We're back on track and, you know, yeah, things change so quickly, hey?
Yep. I know. It's incredible.
And we're definitely not gonna take this for granted. No.
Coming up, preparations for the challenge heat up.
BRETT: What a (BLEEP) joke.
And Leah's friendship with Kristy begins to fall apart.
LEAH: I've been reeling about this since Sunday
when I've seen someone visibly upset
and it's made me really self-reflect and go, "Something is wrong here."
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
# Talk to me... #
SCOTT: It's one of the biggest weeks on The Block.
Make sure you've got all these three all stacked here, ready to go.
MAN: 45mm.
And cut those sheets.
Our teams must deliver their master ensuites on Sunday
and prepare for the most important challenge this year,
the Domain listings and buyers' jury challenge in two days time.
In a few hours, real estate agents, copywriters and photographers
will arrive to help prepare the marketing campaigns
that will determine the winner
of The Block's biggest ever cash prize, $50,000.
We definitely need the 50 grand. 50 grand's huge.
It's literally, like, you know, a fifth of the total renovation budget
we were given at the start.
It is a game-changer for whoever wins it
and that's why, you know,
50 grand going back into your house, it's crazy.
With so much at stake, our Blockheads are cleaning like mad.
(CLEANER WHINES)
ASH: There's heaps to do.
Like, fully clean all the areas that have been completed,
like, the kitchen, the living-dining.
We had to clean the entire house and I thought, "It's real.
"We're selling our house."
In house three, the pressure of the challenge is getting to Brett,
so he's moving everything in his house
using a method called 'chuck it somewhere else'.
BRETT: This is the worst challenge ever,
hence why the prizemoney's so big. (CLATTERING)
It's super difficult in a construction environment
to be able to get anything clean.
People are using our Lasso Rosso kitchen stone
as a benchtop to work on, no protection.
Also, can we not coil up massive electrical things
on our $30,000 fridges?
Can we not use a buzz-saw and just throw sawdust
or whatever all that is all through the room I just cleaned?
Like, that'd be sick.
It just piled up, one thing after the other and I kind of had enough.
Just no-one gives a (BLEEP) around here, man!
This place just gets (BLEEP) trashed!
Yep.
It's day, like, 57, though, I think.
(BUZZ!) I think it does get tough here.
And I'm just, like, yeah... I don't even know what day it is.
It gets a bit tough. A couple of things got in the way.
What a (BLEEP) joke!
I own it.
I look like an actual idiot and then I've already entered, like, my...
Rage mode. ..rage mode.
And I needed to get that out. It wasn't at anyone directly.
It was my own little space and I was just throwing a few things around
and I looked like an idiot.
Do you know, it's the best when you rage out
and you do something like that and you know you're gonna look stupid
and you turn around and you just see a camera straight down the barrel
and you're, like... (LAUGHS)
.."Yep, wear it, buddy. You have to own that one." And I will.
Fridge this morning...
These people are fighting me to yell at you, by the way.
This is just (BLEEP), this challenge, dude.
SCOTT: Whilst contestants continue cleaning,
their trades are getting stuck into building our teams' master ensuites.
In house five, Eliza and Liberty's brand-new builders,
who only started yesterday...
Thanks. Cheers, mate. Thank you.
..are undergoing their very first Foreman Keith inspection.
KEITH: It's all solid blocked under here.
Oh...
(TENSE MUSIC)
Solid in the hole there.
Alright. I think it's fine, boys.
Well done. Thank you. Thank you very much.
We literally never, ever tick one of these off first time.
This structure here isn't that easy. You've done a good job.
Thank you. I'm impressed.
Appreciate it. Thanks, Keith. Well done, guys.
As their new build team kick some early goals,
the sisters have finally arrived back on site
and are coming late into a cleaning frenzy that has taken over the Block.
It's so lovely to be back.
What a joy it is. I'd rather be here.
Unfortunately, when you go away,
it means that you're already, like, a million steps behind
in terms of the challenge,
so, head down, bum up, we got down to cleaning.
Oh, this mattress isn't going anywhere anyway, is it?
But the big problem Eliza and Liberty face is,
once a room is finished,
it quickly becomes storage space for the ongoing build.
And the sisters' studio currently houses most of their stuff.
(TYRES SCREECH) (HORN HONKS)
(GLASS SMASHES) Oh, my god.
It could not have been more overwhelming,
the thought of cleaning our whole entire house in about four hours.
The room that we're currently living in is so vile.
This is so disgusting.
Our clothes are strewn everywhere.
We don't know where anything is.
So, trying to clean that space alone
without the probably seven other rooms we had to clean...
Honestly, all I wanted to do...
I genuinely would've been happy to chuck all of my stuff in a fire.
Like, literally get everything from that room
and just chuck it in a fire 'cause it was just too much to bear.
Oh, my god, this, like, stinks and it's the rankest.
When you arrive with 11 suitcases,
where to put them all is a real problem.
This is so embarrassing. This is embarrassing.
Do we need to film it? (LAUGHS) For god's sake.
Watch.
Because we're the most inexperienced people on The Block probably ever,
we thought we need to spend as much time in our house
doing our reno as possible,
so anything that can help us stay at home
is going to be super, super beneficial.
Alright, you stand behind your cases and I'll stand behind my luggage.
(WOMEN LAUGH)
If only we had time to clean.
But the time we take the clean needs to be, you know, used painting
or insulating or doing anything else
and now we live in godawful squalor.
We just play Tetris with all of our crap from all of our rooms,
so there's literally nowhere to store anything.
But instead of throwing everything on the fire,
Eliza has a better solution to their storage problem.
We hired a Taxibox, which we put in our front yard.
OK, I need to fix you up. MAN: Yep. Beautiful, Eliza.
Thank you. Thank you.
(BEEP) No worries.
We desperately need it. We've got so much crap.
Thanks, Eliza. Take care. You're a legend.
That fit about one-tenth of our suitcases.
Honestly, we're probably gonna have all-nighters until Thursday night,
to be fair, in order to get this place ready
'cause it's just a (BLEEP) hole.
As house five deal with their...
Really awful (BLEEP) hole.
..there's just one more thing I need to add
to our Blockheads' busy day -
just the small job of installing their central staircases.
So, the old temporary stairs are going out,
shiny new stairs are going in.
To make things fair, I've covered all of the costs
for the new staircases and installation,
which has created some logistical issues
with this week's master ensuite
because they're all located upstairs.
These stairs are gonna be pretty cool.
It'll make today very hard, but,
because we've got no access upstairs,
so we tried to get as much stuff up there as we could yesterday.
It makes it tricky.
But it makes it sick!
Yep, the stairs in house two are already creating quite the fuss.
You can't not have stairs and the stairs are pretty sick,
so we were happy to give them time to get it in.
Oh, they're just so cool!
They're the best stairs I've ever seen in my life. Yep.
I've never seen anything like this.
That is a selling point.
# Must I forever be a beggar... #
After hours of planning, the houses are now cleaned up
and everyone's real estate agents, copywriters and photographers
have arrived.
It was fun. It was cool. We got some good snaps and... Mmm.
..hopefully we'll put together a good booklet
for the 100 potential buyers.
(CAMERA CLICKS FOUR TIMES)
And in house four,
Gian is making sure his marketing team don't miss a thing.
So I had to take the copywriter through our entire house,
individually through each room with our real estate agent
and kind of talk to the key features and buzzwords
we would've liked included in the copy.
So, this is our laundry.
Washer, dryer.
Also got that door there, which will provide access to the outside.
Going through these rooms kind of takes you back week by week.
Double-sided Stoke fireplace...
You get that heat when you're in the dining room.
You can obviously talk to, you know, the design features
till the cows come home
but it kind of always brings back the memories and the discussions
and the arguments you had in choosing certain details.
Yes, this is the living and dining room they presented in week five
and this might be the memory from the week that Gian is now reliving.
You need to calm down.
STEPH: No, no, but I also need to crack the (BLEEP) whip
because we can't think that everything's fine when it's not.
You can't rush this. What are you rushing?
This is all cuts, OK? Like... Don't talk to me like (BLEEP), Gian!
Now, what are we doing here? Where's the insulation?
So, yeah, it was a bit of a trip down memory lane when doing that.
With the Domain photography done, it's also tools down for another day.
LEAH: Gotta go. Bye, Keith.
And after so much has happened,
the sisters in house five are in no doubt
of their biggest achievement today.
Yep.
The greatest shock of all, I think, for us and maybe everyone...
Everyone, yeah. ..who's ever been on The Block...
is that the cesspit has been polished...
(LAUGHS) ..to perfection.
I think it was the most anticipated situation of all time,
us turning around the squalor room that we were living in
into a habitable place. Environment.
But everything that was gross is now out of it,
so don't fear when you're buying our house.
Definitely still buy it because it's excellent now.
And we, like... Fumigated the place.
And also, we're making it a redo room,
so you're gonna get a completely fresh room
that we will never sleep in.
(GULLS CRY)
SCOTT: It's been a gruelling eight weeks of the build for Blockheads
and along the way, a seemingly impenetrable alliance formed
between houses two and three.
But what appeared to be impenetrable
is now beginning to crumble at its very foundations.
It's all coming to light for me that the jokes and the banter...
are not that to other people
and I think I even said to Kristy, like...
I can't even remember when, I said to her...
"I'm quite concerned that we're becoming a foursome
"and a real package deal here.
"I know you and Brett share some pretty strong opinions."
Ash and I, yeah, we hear about it but we don't ac...
We don't really believe those things,
because I just don't really want to engage
in any of that kind of conversation.
It all...
It has all started from Sunday with that confrontation
and seeing the girls visibly upset.
This was not anything tonight but a joke.
But are we saying that you do get an extra hand?
100%. So you...
Well, I'm kind to people, so they're kind back to me.
Yeah, special treatment.
Definitely not the case, Eliza, so calm down.
LEAH: I've been reeling about this since Sunday
when I've seen someone visibly upset
and it's made me really self-reflect and go, "Something is wrong here."
KRISTY: Once we left,
we had a conversation out front of HQ with Ash and Leah.
(TENSE MUSIC)
For some reason, Leah made it about herself in some way.
I'm actually shocked at that. ASH: At what?
How personal that got. Mmm.
It was just annoying
because the opinions in which I knew that they had, they didn't speak to
and I was, like, "Oh, OK.
"You guys weren't the people that I thought you were
"because you spoke a lot of talk, like, two days ago
"but now we're here and then it's just, like, nothing."
I'm done with this.
Nobody has anything to say (BLEEP) in there.
Why say it out here? LEAH: I... I spoke up.
BRETT: Leah, strap in, because it's been friendly...
We've been friendly with everyone mucking around...
I was very nice at the beginning. Yeah, but I'm...
I'm with you by association.
So what? You don't have to be.
When you say something once or twice, it's funny, like,
but more and more and more of the same thing,
it actually just becomes petty
and I just don't want...
I don't want to do that anymore.
I don't want to diminish our friendship
but I've got the girls saying "We're really hurt by this."
I then can't just sit back and be silent.
That just doesn't sit well with me and it goes against my values.
I came on here, left my three babies to come on here to build a house,
huge house, in 12 weeks...
and, you know...and really enjoy the experience.
It just so happened to be
that Kristy and Brett's relationship and friendship for us
was just an easy transition
and we just went into a vortex and went down a rabbit hole.
Kristy and Brett have got different views to you and I.
Yes, we're very close and we're besties and all of that
but they have way stronger opinions than we do.
ASH: Mmm.
And yet I don't want to get linked up with that.
She has been very cautious.
So, in the last two weeks, she has been called a 'mean girl'
and I think she's just processing that.
ASH: So, tonight, there was another barbecue put on by one of the crew,
so we got down there and had a snag and...
Mmm. ..and a bit of bread.
And then I bumped into Eliza.
It was the first time I've seen her since...
like, properly since Sunday night.
Hey. How are you?
I didn't know what her vibe was gonna be like
and I just said to her...
Something that I wanted to kind of, like...
I guess be quite clear is,
just because of our relationship with them,
does not mean that we share all the same opinions.
She had a friend over, so I knew we weren't gonna chat tonight.
I said, "Hey, do you mind if we chat tomorrow?"
Like, I'm happy to have a conversation with you.
And she said, "Honestly, I would really love that."
And the second she said that, it felt like instant relief.
Anyway, we can chat more about it. Yep.
OK. And I appreciate you wanting to chat.
Yeah, of course. OK.
We'll carve out some time in our schedule.
OK. Sounds good. Thanks, Leah.
ELIZA: She's genuinely, yeah, thinking now,
wow, you know, her morals and ethics aren't aligning
with what she's been doing and saying.
I genuinely think that she just didn't know
a lot of what was going on.
They were caught up in a little bubble
and people weren't telling her things
because she was Kristy's best friend.
Kristy and Brett aren't coming across very well
and she's finding that out
and then she's, like, being aligned with them,
so I think she's freaking out a bit.
I think her eyes have been opened.
Here they come!
They've come from all over Australia.
The cashed-up VIP's who can make Block dreams come true.
You look so fresh and nice.
Who will win a game-changing prize?
Blockheads, you have done a fantastic job,
you've pulled out all the stops
for the biggest prize in Block history.
Oh my god!
Boom! Unbelievable.
And...
Let's have a discussion.
The chat that turns the block upside-down.