The Block 2025 Episode 31 recap: Body corp meeting takes a bitter turn as greed and cheating accusations fly

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It doesn’t even begin to scrape the sides of last year’s Block infighting, and it’s taken until episode 31, but there’s finally some semblance of aggro on The Block 2025.

The issues surrounding Mat and Robby’s wine cellar were dealt with to the satisfaction of everyone in the first 10 minutes of the body corporate, but Sonny and Alicia were seemingly spoiling for a fight because they then take the opportunity to raise the issue of the free timber claimed in its entirety by Taz.

The excess logs were available for contestants for free and had apparently sat outside the site timber mill for weeks waiting to be claimed.

With the encouragement of their landscaper, Block regular Troy Lovett, and egged on by Foreman Dan, Taz decides to take them all, snaffling what turns out to be almost $15,000 worth of free wood.

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Britt gives Alicia the stinkeye at the body corporate meeting.

“No-one else even knew about the timber,” Sonny protests.

“No, but we asked the question,” Taz replies.

“I had plans of getting that timber. I changed my landscaping plans and relodged them through Scotty,” Sonny complains.

“We asked the question, we got in before you,” Britt responds.

“If you want to be greedy …” Sonny says.

“Are you calling us greedy?” Britt asks.

“Yeah,” says her former best friend Alicia.

And it’s hard to deny when Taz spray painted his mark on every last log and stump, but Mat is philosophical.

“It’s first in best dressed. They said that weeks ago. You’ve got to share, but do you? It’s a competition,” he says.

Then Britt hits back with a suggestion that Sonny and Alicia unfairly won the budgeting prize in living room week because although their first attempt at the room came in under budget, they later spent $8000 fixing what the judges described as a monumental stuff up in their design.

Sonny points the finger at Britt and Taz, accusing them of greed while Emma tries to pretend she’s somewhere else.

Alicia is wounded that Britt would imply they deliberately presented a rubbish room just to win the budgeting prize, particularly as Britt saw how devastated Alicia was about the judges’ feedback.

“It was nasty and that’s what got to me because she was there when I had a full breakdown about it,” she says.

The meeting then goes from petty to pettier.

Alicia is still harping on about the fact Britt went shopping without her last week, despite a longstanding plan that they would go together, and when Ben calls for any other business to finish off the meeting, she inexplicably decides that the body corporate would be the appropriate place to bring it up.

“I’m just sick of the whole ‘we’re all family, we’re all friends’ and behind us you’re having a stab,” she says.

Britt and Taz apologise for the shopping miscommunication, but it’s clear Alicia isn’t in the mood to accept it and leaves the meeting to cry in the caravan, telling Mat: “I just don’t like conflict. I know I’m a b***h, but I don’t like fighting. It just makes me sad. I don’t like awkward. I know I’m a hard b***h, but my friendships mean a lot to me.”

“Today she showed who she is as a person,” she adds.

Alicia crying over the breakdown of her relationship with Britt.

The most kumbaya team of all is Ben and Emma, who manage to win a $5000 sauna in a swimming challenge and stay on the good side of Sonny and Alicia even after Ben tries to sabotage Sonny’s race.

But they might be about to drop from their podium of ultimate nice guys because they’ve now received approval to excavate under their front deck to create a wine cellar.

It’s not an underground wine cellar, like Mat and Robby’s, Ben is quick to claim.

“It’s an above-ground, below deck, behind-house wine cellar,” he says.

Asked if they care what Robby and Mat will think about their apparently copycat move and neither Ben nor Emma are fussed.

“I don’t care what they think. They haven’t invented wine cellars,” Ben says.

The cast come together by celebrating the fiery death of Mat and Robby’s bedhead.

Meanwhile, a slightly shaken Britt has a cry in the car the next day when she goes shopping – once again, alone – Taz protests “we’re not those people”.

Han and Can, who were once shaping up to be this year’s villains but are now looking like a pair of Pollyannas, decide to stay well out of the fray, watching the drama unfold like tennis spectators.

“We’re still kumbaya,” Can says.

“Han and Can want it to still be kumbaya. Sonny wants everyone to admit it ain’t kumbaya.”

But at least the episode ends on a lighter note: with a funeral.

Mat and Robby get permission from Scott Cam to dump their much derided bedhead from their kids’ room and decide it deserves nothing less than a skipbin pyre.

“We have fond memories of picking the fabric while naked and drinking wine in the spa,” Mat says.

“But we’re here to celebrate its death.”

MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE’S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR

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