The Block 2025 Episode 30 recap: Sonny and Alicia goad the other teams into calling a body corp meeting

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It’s taken seven long weeks, but someone has finally called a body corporate meeting, the traditional battleground of Block scrag fights and square ups.

But first we see Britt and Taz reveal their calculating side.

As Monday morning begins Britt is warning Taz that the open for inspections – when teams get to visit the other houses to inspect the previous week’s room – is a perfect opportunity to “tell the country why they shouldn’t buy house one, two, four or five”.

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Cue clips of Britt and Taz wandering through the other houses and patronisingly sniffing at their kitchens.

They deem Ben and Emma’s kitchen “underwhelming”, point out the different types of wood in Sonny and Alicia’s room and call Mat and Robby’s kitchen “unfinished” due to its lack of bulkheads. Charming.

Then it’s on to that campaign for a body corporate meeting.

The drivers are Sonny and Alicia, who go and see Mat and Robby to warn them that the body corporate meeting is likely to be called over fellow contestants’ suspicions something isn’t above board with the pair’s wine cellar.

Sonny and Alicia warn Robby and Mat that there’s a groundswell to call a body corporate about their wine cellar, without telling them the groundswell is them.

What they don’t reveal is that the fellow contestants are them, and the other teams actually didn’t seem overly interested in the issue until Sonny and Alicia spent the weekly losers’ dinner riling them up about it.

Sonny estimates the wine cellar would be costing $150,000.

“Right now, we look like mugs. We’re at the chumps’ dinner being f***ing chumps. That’s why we’re here, we’re chumps,” Sonny says as Ben looks uncomfortable and Han and Can try to avoid eye contact.

Then Alicia harangues Han for saying she and Can are motivated by the experience, not the prize money.

“I’d rather just see everyone do well,” Han says before Alicia explodes with contempt.

“I do not know why you’re here then. I don’t know why you’re here. Stop being so f***ing nice all the time.”

By the time the dinner is over, the others are convinced, with Can agreeing that Mat and Robby were such frontrunners they were leaving the other teams behind.

Sonny and Alicia try and rile the other teams up about Mat and Robby’s wine cellar.

“Potentially four houses are not going to make any money because everybody is going to be bidding on House Five. The Block is hard, it’s harder than any of us thought it would be. To walk away with nothing would be the biggest punch in the gut,” she said.

Having successfully whipped the other contestants up about the issue, Sonny and Alicia sat back and watched as the body corporate they had warned Mat and Robby was coming their way came to fruition, without their fingerprints being on it.

“Sonny and Alicia were the most passionate about it and convinced everyone else but then seemed like they didn’t want to be the ones to call the body corporate,” Ben noted, before agreeing to be the one to pull the trigger.

But when the big showdown arrives, Mat and Robby were able to clearly answer the teams’ questions: how much is it costing, how much came from sponsors, and why were they able to start digging their hole in week two before landscaping plans had been finalised.

The entire project was costing the pair just $44,000 thanks to a sponsor wanting to showcase a new wall framing product and giving it to them for free. They took a punt at the start of the competition that they’d win enough to cover the cost and it paid off.

Case closed.

Alicia tells Han and Can she doesn’t know why they’re even on The Block.

But it’s far from stress over. Between being goaded into calling body corporate meetings, the teams are trying to finish a guest suite with bedroom, bathroom and in some cases kitchenette, as well cleaning and styling their houses for photography and for an event for 100 potential buyers later in the week.

The house voted the best by the attendees will win $50,000, enough to pay for their landscaping.

Alicia has some thoughts about Taz taking every one of the free logs available to contestants.

While the losers plot at their dinner, the joint winners of kitchen week, Mat and Robby and Britt and Taz, have their own plot going on at the winners’ dinner, with the two teams deciding not to tell the other teams they can vote for themselves along with the potential buyers.

Last year there was only one vote in it, and the team that came second had neglected to cast their vote.

That, along with festering resentment about Taz claiming every single tree Scott Cam made available to contestants from his sawmill, and it looks like the continuation of the body corporate meeting is going to get more spicy.

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Episode 1: Why no NSW applicants were good enough for The Block

Episode 2: The worst day on The Block

Episode 3/4: ‘Tear them off’: teams forced to rip tiles from walls

Episode 5: Judges feedback leaves one contestant vomiting

Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s heartbreak

Episode 7: The big problem with the Block house designs

Episode 8: Robby and Mat’s drunken blunder

Episode 9: ‘An up-market nursing home’

Episode 10: Can faces the wrath of Han

Episode 11: Han micromanaging from her sick bed

Episode 12: Sonny cops a spray from Alicia