Kylie is back, but it’s no loving reunion.
She makes it very clear that she’s here to ensure she gets her half of whatever profits she and Brad make from the sale of their Block house.
“If I give up we’d get nothing, so even if it’s ten grand I’m taking half and I’m leaving your arse,” she tells him. “You keep the house then I’m f..king off. I don’t even know if I’m staying in Cairns to be honest. There’s nothing there for me. You treat your partner like this you can f..king deal with the consequences.”
Their conversation reveals some more details about what went on between Brad and Mimi, at least in Kylie’s suspicions.
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“Do you understand what was said and what I heard? Do you even know what you spoke about?” she asks Brad.
“Yeah, vaguely,” he responds.
“My biggest problem is the entire time we’ve been together and even when we were starting out, you have never flirted with me like that in our entire relationship, so you can only imagine how that makes me feel,” Kylie goes on.
She then accuses Brad of spending “ages” alone with Mimi after Kylie went to bed.
“In my mind I feel like something happened but my biggest concern is I had already voiced my concerns to you about her and how she feels about you and you’ve just completely gone with it and completely anhiliated our entire relationship.”
Then it’s on to a tense all hands meeting on the new communal tennis court, the first time Kylie has seen Mimi since her return.
Kristian comforts Mimi in her obvious anxiety (something she refuses pointblank to do for him later in this episode)
“I feel like as much as I could have gone up to her, I couldn’t do it. It was still pretty fresh,” Mimi says later. “If I went up and said `hey, are we all good?’ and she said ‘No’, I don’t take that well. I’d probably crumble. It really upsets me. Avoiding also isn’t helpful but I think it’s just finding the right time, and that wasn’t the right time. She’d literally just got back.”
Instead, it’s Maddy and Charlotte who approach Kylie, despite Kylie earlier in the season storming out of a group dinner calling the sisters “f..king liars”.
“I want to live a life where I show kindness,” Maddy says later.
It’s a lesson Mimi could take on.
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Once again, this episode shows her doing nothing while Kristian shoulders all the work. He’s beginning to crack under the strain of the mammoth task of moving by hand a huge stack of 30kg pavers from the the front yard to the upstairs balcony.
“Just go one by one upstairs, what else are you going to do,” an impatient Mimi tells him, not offering to help.
When Kristian starts to feel overwhelmed with what sounds like an imminent panic attack he goes upstairs to seek some solace with his wife.
“Mims, I just need to talk to you. I’m not feeling well, Please just try to support me,” he pleads.
“I just feel I can’t do that” is her response. “You can’t expect me to do something that I don’t feel comfortable doing.”
After that fairly jaw-dropping display of compassion Kristian leaves site to take some time out from the situation before returning in a better head space to continue to work.
Scott Cam later comes to visit to offer him the encouraging words and compliments for his tireless work that Mimi seems unable to give him.
The episode ends with Mimi, once again, standing around watching Kristian work.
Also standing around this episode are Kylie and Brad, and their entire landscaping team.
They lose eight hours of work because that’s how long Ricky and Haydn’s 70ft palm tree takes to be planted. The crane used to lower it into place is parked right in Kylie and Brad’s front yard with no warning and that means nothing can be delivered and no work can be done.
“It’s absolutely destroyed my miniscule budget. How is that fair?” Brad asks.
Kylie meanwhile, is making jokes about pushing Brad into the hole and planting the tree on top of him.
Does this mean she’s thawing?
If promos for Sunday night’s episode are to be believed, she might be about to turn her ire on Scott Cam.
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EP 45: Block in crisis as Kylie flees, Brad’s ‘flirting’ confession causes uproar
EP 44: Judges slam ‘unAustralian’ backyard
EP 42/43: Teams’ surprise move after nasty Block spat
EP 41: ‘Don’t deal with f***ing liars’: Kylie storms out of Block dinner
EP 40: Block sisters make ‘nasty’ toilet error
EP 38/39: Block foreman’s spray reduces sisters to tears
EP 37: Fury over Kylie’s Block walk off threat
EP 36: ‘Useless s**t’: Judges get brutal on Block ‘peep show’ rooms
EP 34/35: Uproar as team member naps, leaving partner in the lurch
EP 33: ‘Be a man! It’s embarrassing’: Block contestant’s gross sledge
EP 32: ‘Vanilla’ and ‘squashed’: judges issue harsh criticisms
EP 30/31: ‘Devastated’: Why tradies refuse to work on The Block
EP 29: ‘Mean girl antics’: Block sisters bullied after win
EP 28: ‘Competition is rigged’: Furious Block contestant lashes out
EP 26/27: ‘They lied’: Teams turn on sisters, Block’s reputation questioned
EP 25: Why two teams are fighting over hotshot agent
EP 24: Grant, the master snitch
EP 22/23: ‘F..king brothel’: second Block builder quits
EP 21: Grant lets rip on “dog ugly” room
EP 20: ‘Can’t polish a turd’: Block judge lets rip
EP 18/19: ‘Paramount to cheating’: Scott Cam accuses Block team
EP 17: ‘Don’t give a f***’: Block team quits after producer steps in
EP 16: Abusive 1am phone call shocks entire Block
EP 14/15: “Snake … I’m not having you on site’: Block builder fired
EP 13: ‘F***ing walk off’: Block couple’s fight turns toxic
EP 12: ‘Arrogant’: Blockhead goes on a bender, cop huge judge spray
EP 10/11: ‘Rip it up’: Block’s biggest bathroom disaster ever
EP 9: ‘You never listen to me’: Block couple fall apart
EP 8: ‘This has become a joke’: Dan slams popular Block pair
EP 6/7: ‘F***ing wasting time’: Block couple set to quit
EP 5: ‘This has never happened’: Block team caught in fraud scandal
EP 4: ‘Childish, boring’: Block judges come in blazing
EP 3: Block builder already breaking rules incurs foreman’s wrath
EP 2: ‘Who the f**k wants to sleep near their kids?’ — Block couple baffled
EP 1: ‘Not good at anything’: Bathroom fireworks kick off on The Block