{"id":850647,"date":"2026-08-10T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:52:22","slug":"the-block-2026-exclusive-chantel-and-wyatt-reveal-real-reason-budget-blunder-made-them-want-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850647\/","title":{"rendered":"The Block 2026 Exclusive: Chantel and Wyatt reveal real reason budget blunder made them want to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: After a shock budget call-out from Scott Cam<\/a> after The Block<\/a> 2026\u2019s first Room Reveal Sunday<\/a>, the first thing Chantel and Wyatt<\/a> did was check their bank account.<\/p>\n

The host had told them they had spent the most money<\/a> of any team in the first week, racking up bills totalling more than $20,000 \u2013 but they knew that could not be right.<\/p>\n

\"EMBARGO<\/p>\n

The couple immediately knew something had gone wrong.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

The pair were convinced that was wrong and were desperate to clear it up that night, leaving them frustrated as the fallout continued into the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could log into our CommBank, which we did as soon as we left site, and check \u2013 and we could see exactly how much we had spent,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only two or three invoices that we calculated, so we knew exactly how much we had spent, and going into the show we prided ourselves on our budgeting ability, and we were made to look silly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple were \u201chell-bent\u201d on leaving over what they first assumed was a deliberate stitch-up made for reality TV drama, agreeing to a chat with Scott and executive producer Julian Cress the next day simply to ask for an apology.<\/p>\n

But they were soon vindicated when the pair apologised for a major accounting error that counted their builder\u2019s bill twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely sorry for what\u2019s happened,\u201d Scotty said. \u201cIt 1000 per cent was not deliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sincerity worked on Chantel, who changed her mind after the discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cProduction, they were trying to fix things, and I could see they were trying to make the situation better, and that overall made me feel better in myself and swayed my decision to stay,\u201d Chantel said.<\/p>\n

Wyatt was still unconvinced, but agreed to stick around for her sake.<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/p>\n

Scotty and EP Julian fronted up with an apology for the blunder.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Thankfully, both of them were able to put the incident behind them as they continued in the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see they were genuinely sorry about having the mistake,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just kind of frustrating because we knew on Sunday night that it was a mistake, but after the apology, everyone\u2019s support was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/p>\n

After thinking it over, Chantel and Wyatt decided to stay.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

That included the other four teams<\/a>, who were technically their rivals but showed nothing but love to the couple after the issue came to light.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went on site and everyone was amazing and very caring, and we had Adam approach us and just be like, \u2018You guys need to stay, it just wouldn\u2019t be the same without you guys.\u2019 And that was really heartwarming,\u201d Chantel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the contestants were really sweet. It helped us make that decision as well,\u201d Wyatt agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: After a shock budget call-out from Scott Cam after The Block 2026\u2019s first Room Reveal Sunday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-850647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850647","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=850647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}