{"id":45388,"date":"2025-08-05T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45388\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:19:14","slug":"what-we-know-about-sonny-and-alicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45388\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Sonny and Alicia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to support independent women&#8217;s media, <a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mamamia.com.au\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">become a Mamamia subscriber<\/a>. Get an all-access pass to everything we make, including exclusive podcasts, articles, videos and our exercise app, MOVE.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny and Alicia are a hard-working married couple from the Gold Coast with three kids, and they&#8217;re set to charm Australia as<a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mamamia.com.au\/the-block-2025-contestants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> contestants on the 2025 season<\/a> of <a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mamamia.com.au\/the-block-2025-spoilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Block<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sonny, 44, is a seasoned plumber with 25 years&#8217; industry experience, while Alicia, 42, recently managed a busy dental practice before stepping away to join the show. They have been married for a decade and have been together for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny and Alicia are no <a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mamamia.com.au\/the-block-2025-mat-and-robby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strangers to renovation<\/a>, as they&#8217;ve previously built their family home and renovated a granny flat. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are by no means epic renovators, but not completely green,&#8221; Sonny <a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/sonny-and-alicia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told 9Entertainment<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sonny&#8217;s tradie skills and Alicia&#8217;s management experience could be a strong combo. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the first look at The Block 2025. Post continues below.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a huge surprise that this dynamic duo almost made it on The Block once before. The couple made the shortlist for the Phillip Island season of The Block but didn&#8217;t make the final cast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to support independent women&#8217;s media, become a Mamamia subscriber. Get an all-access pass to everything&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-45388","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\/45388","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=45388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}