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The Block host Scott Cam said the absence of Sydneysiders from the 21st season was more to do with personality than geography.<\/p>\n
Only four of the 21 seasons of The Block have been made in NSW, the last of which was in 2013.<\/p>\n
Since then, The Block has called Victoria home. And will continue to do so again in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government and the local councils look after us in Victoria,\u201d Cam says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t give us any special treatment! But they appreciate what we bring to the state, and they don\u2019t want us to go to New South Wales.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd New South Wales do not look after us. Well, they haven\u2019t in the past. They may want to now, because we bring millions and millions of dollars into the Victorian economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Block 2025 meet for the first time on the Daylesford site.<\/p>\n
To illustrate his point, Cam says The Block had so far injected almost $8 million into the Daylesford community this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictoria understands that [The Block is good for employment and the economy],\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t fast track anything. We have to go through all the hoops that everyone else has to go through. But they always say, \u2018How can we help? How can we not make you go to New South Wales?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s honestly it. It\u2019s not any favouritism or anything like that. They just want to make sure that we\u2019re happy. Because, just like any big business, the government keeps manufacturing businesses in town for the economy, and we\u2019re just one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n
With more than 80 people working behind the scenes, Block co-host Shelley Craft says it makes sense to keep the show in Victoria where \u201cso many of the crew live.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it\u2019s very easy for them to still have home lives while they are working on a show that runs 24 hours a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Likewise, Craft said Victoria offered \u201csuch a wonderful diverse range of landscapes and suburbs and areas that showcase different lifestyles.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Block will premiere on Sunday July 27 at 7pm on Channel 9 and 9Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flashy harbour city prides itself on its property sparkle but when it comes to the nation\u2019s top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-14719","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\/14719","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=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}