It’s Monday, and that means it’s times for the contestants to be mildly rude about last night’s winning garden.
And with Ben and Emma stealing the win from Mat and Robby through their secret bonus point the saltiness has reached anchovy level.
“It does what it needs to but I don’t think it deserved to win,” is Alicia’s assessment.
“Underwhelming” is Britt’s.
“They copied us – the whole room,” Robby says when he sees the pair’s wine cellar.
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Mat and Robby as they discover the similarities between their and Ben and Emma’s wine cellar.
To be fair, even Ben and Emma admit other gardens were better than their own.
When they see Mat and Robby’s they declare it “epic” and “elite”.
“Oh my god, this is so much better than ours. I reckon the boys will be devo that we won,” Emma adds.
Correct.
“It would be OK to lose to this with a gnome if I went ‘wow’, but I haven’t,” Mat says. “It kills me to know we won and somebody else has reaped the glory. I’m trying not be sour but in my mouth it’s like having 50 lemons and I’m trying to smile”
The ill-feeling continues when Ben and Emma win a weird food-wasting challenge involving building towers out of biscuits, pocketing a further $10,000.
It’s too much for Alicia, who is staring down the barrel of being part of the first team to never win a room, and on her birthday, no less. She retreats to the caravan to sob.
“I don’t know why we’re wasting our time. We should have just walked out. It could all be for nothing. I don’t want to come out today at all. I want to be here by myself. It’s the worst birthday ever,” she cries.
Alicia can hardly hide her joy when Ben and Emma win the challenge.
Meanwhile, Han and Can’s relationship is so frayed they’re accepting relationship counselling from their builder Shan, who advises them both to stay in their lanes.
“You’re both getting overwhelmed and you’re both becoming non-productive,” he tells Han. “Just trust me. Everyone is right from their own point of view. You stay outside and she does inside.”
Han’s builder dad is impressed at Shan’s level-headedness.
“I’ve got three sisters, mate, and a mother, and I’ve got three daughters,” Shan says.
Mat and Robby on the other hand, are in need of financial counselling when their landscaper
Shan diversifies his business into the relationship counselling space.
Paal casually mentions he’s encountered $34,000 worth of unexpected engineering when doing their backyard, a fact he had apparently failed to reveal to Mat and Robby during the week.
“We always had the budget of $70,000 and we’ve paid $70,000,” Mat says.
“He said it’s from unforeseen engineering but at no stage was that communicated to us until this morning after it was completed.”
“We were pretty shocked because he was almost 50 per cent over the money allowed,” Robby notes.
Mat discovers he and Robby have been hit with a massive bill for their landscaping.
Mat says he wishes he could leave the negotiations to Robby but knows that if he did Robby’s solution would be a shrug of the shoulders and an assurance the money would come from somewhere.
Sure enough, there’s then footage of Robby telling Paal that Mat is stubborn and is the one insisting they won’t pay the extra fee.
“He’s going to say if you quote $70,000, here’s $70,000 but I’m real, I understand,” he tells Paal before wandering off. The Wolf of Wall Street he ain’t.
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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
Episode 13: Brutal feedback leaves Block team confused
Episode 14: Han and Can are in trouble with Dan, and other contestants
Episode 15: Han explodes at Dan in shocking tirade
Episode 16: Defiant Han gets epic dressing down from Scott Cam
Episode 17: Two teams are smashed by hyperbolic judges
Episode 18: Two teams start the week devastated by judges’ feedback
Episode 19: Copying scandal erupts as Alicia and Sonny point the finger
Episode 20: Ben and Emma drop good news into tense Block week
Episode 21: Ben and Emma and Sonny and Alicia cop the wrath of the judges
Episode 22: As Sonny and Alicia despair, Mat summons his inner Mean Boy
Episode 23: Han and Can all but quit the spa room challenge
Episode 24: Ben and Emma finally crack after yet another loss
Episode 25: Britt and Taz make a major blunder
Episode 26: The girls fire their builder
Episode 27: Ben and Emma hatch a sneaky plan
Episode 28: Britt’s decision to freeze out her former bestie has Alicia on the warpath
Episode 29: ‘Basic’, ‘no heart’, ‘not elegant’ – judges pan some teams’ kitchens
Episode 30: Block stars ugly showdown
Episode 31: Greed and cheating accusations at body corp meeting
Episode 32: Team unleashes on ‘dog act’
Episode 33: Three teams fail to finish in bruising week
Episode 34: Han fires up at sacked builder over ‘w***er’ texts
Episode 35: Sonny refuses to back down on his decision to block extended hours
Episode 36: Sonny dobs in Britt and Taz and Han loses her cool
Episode 37: Going all out for a win one team comes unstuck
Episode 38: Mild-mannered Ben calls for an arson attack on Britt and Taz
Episode 39: Alicia denies making snide comments then refers to Britt’s ‘b***h face’
Episode 40: A controversial Block win stirs new trouble
Epidode 41: A pig-headed decision could cost one team big at auction
Epidode 42: Han worries she’s been portrayed as a spoilt brat
Episode 43: In a repeat of last week, Han has big plans and no cash
Episode 44: Taz and Britt have reached breaking point
Episode 45: Han and Can’s rock-filled backyard gets big thumbs down from one judge
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