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Block couple reach breaking point<\/p>\n
Any lingering tension between Han and Can and the other teams seemed to have been solved with some booze and wrestling.<\/p>\n
The teams let off steam at an after-hours gathering outside their caravans, with Ben, Taz and Han squeezing into a tiny portable hot tub followed by Han and Can wrestling for reasons known only to them.<\/p>\n
That gave Scott Cam the perfect opportunity for some 1970s-style innuendo which Han cooly brushes off by saying \u201cWe were providing some quality WWE entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cam and Shelley Craft were on their usual weekly walkaround of the teams\u2019 rooms.<\/p>\n
This week it was a rumpus room, though Han and Can are instead creating a theatre room with coffered ceiling, velvet soundproofing panels and a huge TV, while Britt and Taz were working on a wellness retreat complete with reformer Pilates machines.<\/p>\n
As the pair toured the houses the Block\u2019s nicest ever couple, Ben and Emma, finally copped some personal criticism.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Every room reveal from The Block 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Marty Fox on why renovating is no longer an Aussie obsession<\/a><\/p>\n The Block\u2019s biggest every controversies<\/a><\/p>\n After they cheerfully admitted their zero room wins for the season meant their budget was in the same position as day one, their relentless sunniness had Shelley doubting their competitive spirit.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve got lots of issues they\u2019re just smiling through but there\u2019s no killer instinct,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n But before the teams could reveal their rumpus rooms, they had to put the finishing touches on their Hepburn Springs Bathhouse rooms.<\/p>\n Former Block judge Neale Whitaker had obviously put any residual bitterness about his departure from the show behind him, because he was back to judge the day spa rooms.<\/p>\n Whitaker, the longest running judge on the show, quit last year to spend more time with his husband who had been battling health issues. <\/p>\n After his final episode aired, Whitaker posted a now-deleted Instagram comment revealing the show had edited out his emotional explanation.<\/p>\n In any case, his warm greeting from Scott Cam and Shelley Craft suggested that all that was in the past and Whitaker set to work judging the teams\u2019 rooms.<\/p>\n Britt and Taz\u2019 marble table, matte and gloss square tiles, white bath and stone pendant light got Whitaker\u2019s tick, but too many plants and dried flowers got his thumbs down.<\/p>\n Ben and Emma\u2019s moody spa room.<\/p>\n Ben and Emma had high hopes for their warm grey-toned room with bath sitting on a bluestone slab, timber batten ceiling and gold tapware picking up the gold tones of their dark marble wall tiles and Whitaker found little to criticise.<\/p>\n Mat and Robby were cocksure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe both own salons. I\u2019ve owned a day spa. We wanted a room that was very warm and inviting with no clothes on,\u201d Mat said.<\/p>\n Whitaker liked their pink ombre wall tiles and rose gold fittings, but thought the white crazy paving-style floor tiles were too much and that the pink tones was at risk of dating.<\/p>\n Neale Whitaker liked Mat and Robby\u2019s room but worried the pink colour would quickly date it.<\/p>\n As predicted by everyone \u2013 including Han and Can \u2013 Han and Can\u2019s insane mash up of marble wall tiles, multi-coloured herringbone pattern floor tiles and a pressed metal ceiling got a big thumbs down.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything in here is jarring,\u201d Whitaker said. \u201cI haven\u2019t said this for a long time but this is a crime scene. You couldn\u2019t relax in here.\u201d<\/p>\n Han and Can\u2019s treatment room. Thankfully not seen: the pressed metal ceiling.<\/p>\n His favourite room of the day was Sonny and Alicia\u2019s.<\/p>\n He loved their calming tones, feature ceiling and heated bench seat.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s impressive in its simplicity. You want to switch off in these rooms so less is more. They\u2019ve made very good choices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n After a few weeks of copping some harsh criticism from the judges on the chin, it wasn\u2019t hard to feel happy for them.<\/p>\n Sonny and Alicia\u2019s room won the day.<\/p>\n They were both almost speechless with emotion at winning the potentially game-changing $260,000 caravan to be included in the sale of their house.<\/p>\n Even Mat and Robby were pleased they took out the win.<\/p>\n But if it was easy to be happy for Sonny and Alicia, it was impossible not to feel sorry for Ben and Emma as we saw their innate joyfulness finally drain away.<\/p>\n Yet another of their endless second places is finally getting to Ben and Emma.<\/p>\n After coming second for the umpteenth time the pair are near tears as they speak to producers after judging.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day it\u2019s a competition and someone has to be coming out on top. It hasn\u2019t been us yet but we\u2019ll keep going,\u201d Ben said.<\/p>\n It would almost have been better if they\u2019d raged and complained \u2013 watching them try so hard to keep smiling and then seeing them fighting to keep it together on the drive home almost made me miss the weekly sweary storm outs of last year.<\/p>\n For the first time in the series, Ben and Emma are feeling flat.<\/p>\n Hopefully Ben and Emma can take comfort in the fact every Block viewer wishes they were their mum, their dad or their best mate.<\/p>\n MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE\u2019S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR<\/p>\n Episode 1: Why no NSW applicants were good enough for The Block<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 2: The worst day on The Block<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 3\/4: \u2018Tear them off\u2019: teams forced to rip tiles from walls<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 5: Judges feedback leaves one contestant vomiting<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 6: Dan and Dani\u2019s heartbreak<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 7: The big problem with the Block house designs<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 8: Robby and Mat\u2019s drunken blunder<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 9: \u2018An up-market nursing home\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 10: Can faces the wrath of Han<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 11: Han micromanaging from her sick bed<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 12: Sonny cops a spray from Alicia<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 13: Brutal feedback leaves Block team confused <\/a><\/p>\n Episode 14: Han and Can are in trouble with Dan, and other contestants<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 15: Han explodes at Dan in shocking tirade<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 16: Defiant Han gets epic dressing down from Scott Cam<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 17: Two teams are smashed by hyperbolic judges<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 18: Two teams start the week devastated by judges\u2019 feedback<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 19: Copying scandal erupts as Alicia and Sonny point the finger<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 20: Ben and Emma drop good news into tense Block week<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 21: Ben and Emma and Sonny and Alicia cop the wrath of the judges<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 22: As Sonny and Alicia despair, Mat summons his inner Mean Boy<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 23: Han and Can all but quit the spa room challenge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Block couple reach breaking point Any lingering tension between Han and Can and the other teams seemed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-121813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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