The Block 2025 Episode 32 recap: Mat unloads on Ben and Emma over their secret wine cellar

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With 100 potential buyers plus locals arriving to inspect the houses, plus a guest bedroom with ensuite and in some cases, kitchenette, to complete, the teams are losing their minds with stress and overwork.

With a whopping prize of $50,000 up for grabs for the house voted the best by the visitors, four of the teams are neglecting their guest room and ensuite in favour of cleaning and party planning.

Britt and Taz are going all out, having masses of plants delivered by their landscaper, along with their sauna and cold plunge pool. Sonny and Alicia are having their $260,000 caravan parked in their driveway to really ram home the point that it comes with the house. Mat and Robby have had a huge sign made proclaiming that they have the only underground wine cellar on the show.

And Ben and Emma have had 3D AI renders blown up of the subterranean wine cellar they are secretly planning for under their elevated house.

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Emma with poster announcing The Block’s second underground wine cellar.

So it was all eyes on Robby and Mat when the guests filtered through to their house, with one of them letting slip that they might have jumped the gun with their enormous sign.

The usually affable Mat finds it hard to remain affable in the face of The Block’s nicest couple apparently copying his and Robby’s idea.

“F***ing get your own ideas! You can’t win a thing so you try and copy our ideas. F**k off,” is his reaction when Robby breaks the news, adding a “dumba**ses” for good measure.

Robby suspects Ben only called the body corporate meeting the previous week to find out how much a wine cellar was likely to cost not realising it was in fact he and Mat’s best mates Sonny and Alicia who were behind the meeting.

Sonny commiserates, likening the situation to moment he accused Han and Can of copying his idea for a heated bench seat in the bathhouse challenge.

“I can tell you’re upset and we’ve been through this,” he tells Mat.

Robby tells Mat that they don’t have the only wine cellar on the show.

But if Mat and Robby are railing behind the scenes, as far as Ben and Emma are concerned, they were good sports about it.

And it’s true, Mat and Robby did manage to clap the pair when they beat them by just a single percentage point to take out the all important $50,000 challenge, with 24 per cent of visitors choosing Ben and Emma’s house as their favourite, over Mat and Robby’s 23 per cent. Britt and Taz came third with 21 per cent, followed by Sonny and Alicia with 19 per cent and Han and Can with 13 per cent.

The teams then retreated to the café for a night of partying that most of them could ill-afford given out of all the teams only Sonny and Alicia had managed to waterproof their ensuite.

After sidling up to the Alicia on the dancefloor during the party Britt asked Alicia to come outside where she again apologised for forgetting to take her shopping last week (quick reminder, these are grown women).

If Britt thought it was now officially water under the bridge she was sorely mistaken.

“That’s not going to cut it,” Alicia said later. “I need an explanation.”

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And she and Sonny got the chance to exact revenge the very next day.

Woefully behind on their waterproofing, Foreman Dan tells Taz he will only be able to finish the guest ensuite if his tiler gets his hands on some quick drying material.

Sonny and Alicia’s tilers the Cursio brothers have plenty of it, and are willing to give a quick demo to Taz and Britt’s tiler, but have the good sense to ask Alicia for permission.

“Nup,” is her response.

And while it sounds petty, and is, she does have something of a leg to stand on when she reminds everyone that Taz claiming all the free timber and refusing to share meant she and Sonny had to spend $7000 on materials for their landscaping.

“Because they decided to keep all that timber in the yard we had to purchase the timber that I thought we had access to,” she says.

Ben and Emma celebrate their house being voted the favourite by a group of potential buyers.

The other teams are struggling to finish too and approach Foreman Dan and site manager Aidan to ask for a couple of extra hours to work given they’d lost so much time on the open for inspection challenge. He’s amenable to allowing them to work until midnight instead of 10pm, but only if it’s unanimous.

And it’s another ‘Nup’ from Alicia. She and Sonny are well ahead and don’t need to give any of the other teams a leg up, even their friends.

“Game on bitches,” she says as she stalks off leaving Dan in stitches and Aidan incredulous.

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