{"id":835575,"date":"2026-07-31T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:13:16","slug":"the-block-host-scott-cam-hospitalised-for-12-days-after-knee-replacement-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835575\/","title":{"rendered":"The Block host Scott Cam hospitalised for 12 days after knee replacement surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Just days before The Block returns to screens for its latest season, long-time host Scott Cam has revealed he is bed-bound in hospital as he recovers from major surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The beloved tradie and TV personality has been off his feet for nearly two weeks and said he requires a walking stick to get around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Speaking remotely to Hit Network\u2019s Stav, Abby &amp; Matt in Brisbane, the 63-year-old detailed his treatment and recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI am calling you from my hospital room which I\u2019ve been in for 12 days. I\u2019ve just had a knee replacement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThey get you up walking straight away . . . first five days is not good, let me tell ya. I\u2019m at the back end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Asked if he had been prescribed strong painkillers, the host said he had been tapering off potent medications as he prepares for his hospital release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI was on the heavy duties (painkillers) in the early days, (because) knee replacements are pretty big,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThere\u2019a a lot of pain involved but now I\u2019m at the back end, I\u2019m going home on Sunday and I\u2019m still incapacitated a little bit with a walking stick . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d53a6bc3681b452b35bbed616587b0a16bcce743.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Cam returns to host The Block.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconScott Cam returns to host The Block. Credit: Supplied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Cam won a coveted Gold Logie in 2014 as host of the show, which he has steered without absence since 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">However, the familiar face admitted recent seasons had deviated from the show\u2019s \u201chardworking\u201d roots, with the quality of contestants missing the mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWe had a couple of missteps for a couple of years, where probably our casting was a bit off. And we just were heading in the wrong direction, I felt. So we had some serious sit downs and chats, we got it back to grass roots, the people that work hard, people that put maximum effort in,\u201d Cam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThat\u2019s where we were lacking, choosing people that were too young, I felt, and didn\u2019t have the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Cam said he felt the show \u201cgot back last year to those grass roots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThere\u2019s always drama that pans out, but the building takes priority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A veteran of the building industry, the carpenter said the price of timber and hardware had not dropped since the highs of COVID, and that such prices had also impacted the budgets handed out on the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days before The Block returns to screens for its latest season, long-time host Scott Cam has revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,995],"class_list":["post-835575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-influencers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835575","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=835575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}