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SCOTT: Previously on The Block...

It's Omar and Oz! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

..the bathroom kings strike again.

Yeah, baby. Bathroom kings, baby.

Dylan and Jenny ring that game-changing bell...

We want to build a sustainable tiny house on our land.

I reckon we're good for a game-changer. (COUPLE CHEER)

Sharon and Anks are the worst painters. (LAUGHS)

And there's a storm brewing for the Blockheads.

(MAN LAUGHS)

Like, I felt like we were being laughed at.

(LAUGHTER)

Come on, man. Cry me a river. Get over it.

SHARON:

Tonight...

Does everybody just think that I'm saying mean things to them

when I think I'm having a joke?

..the fallout from the dinner continues.

Like, even the fact that she felt the need to tell me that

hurt my feelings because I was, like,

"Why do you think that about me? You don't even know me, you know."

Yeah, yeah.

I'm actually reacting to something YOU started.

Sarah-Jane is not the only one in Sharon's firing line.

Well, I think you think I'm attacking you with everything.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a helicopter landing.

Oh, my god!

And our Blockheads go to great heights...

We are going in a chopper, baby. Oh, I felt sick.

You know, just like when your heart falls into your arsehole

and you're just, like... (IMITATES CHOKING)

Never had that, I don't reckon. Oh, my god, I get that all the time.

..to bag the biggest Block challenge prize ever.

$100,000.

(LAUGHS) Wow.

But just how low will one couple go...

God, they've got it.

..to win that prize?

It will bite you in the bum. It'll come back to you at some point.

It'll come back. It will come back. Yeah.

(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)

MAN: What happened?

No... Yes, you are. Oh, am I?

Last night at the winners-are-grinners dinner,

shots were fired and the cracks are starting to show.

We're apparently the worst painters. Scotty just gave us a painting tip.

I'm completely...

That's a lie because we are definitely the worst painters.

That's a lie 'cause Sharon and Anks are the worst painters. (LAUGHS)

(MAN LAUGHS)

They are.

Spade a spade.

He literally does not understand the vote.

Lovely Sarah-Jane made a comment of,

"Well, we all know Shaz and Anks are the worst at painting."

(LAUGHS)

Like, I felt like we were being laughed at behind our backs

but in front of us in a group setting and it's not cool.

It's nasty.

And if I wanted to be rude back, I could say,

"The last two weeks, we beat you on crap painting and the idea alone."

So... But I'm not an arsehole.

RACHEL: I don't necessarily think, in a normal situation,

what happened around the table would've been that upsetting.

RYAN: Yeah.

I think we're just so heightened, so tired and...

The smallest little thing.

..the smallest little thing will set us off. Yeah.

I'd heard, you know, through the Block telephone, I call it,

which is just a rumour mill... (LAUGHS)

Sharon was offended by my joke,

so I reached out to her, just via text message

and she just kind of wrote back, saying:

I'm just processing everything that's been said.

# Get low, get low Hands on your waist, let's go

# Get low, get low

# Girl, you've got the vibe I'm up for the climb

# Get low, get low... # (RINGING TONE)

RACHEL: I spoke to Shaz this morning.

SHARON: Hey, honey, how you going? I'm good, my love. How are you?

Yeah, OK.

I just wanted to check in and make sure she was alright.

I wasn't last night.

Sarah was just saying, "We all know Anks and Shaz,

"like, are the worst at painting.

"What? I'm just calling a spade a spade."

Right. OK.

That really offended me. Yeah. Right.

She actually messaged last night and called

but I just couldn't have the conversation... Yeah.

Like, I'm over it and it's fine and that's just who she is.

I didn't think that the painting comment was what had upset her

because I've heard it before, I've heard it from them.

I didn't think that that would upset them.

ANKUR: We are definitely the worst painters.

We know we're losers at painting.

We know that and we say that.

Our painting has been, like, subpar so far.

It's been described as a dog's breakfast.

Like, if someone said it to my face,

I'd be, like, "That's completely true."

Like, "No worries." 'Cause it does suck.

We know we're (BLEEP) at painting but we are trying. Yeah.

So, to say that in a public setting, I just thought was really rude.

And I know she's super forthright

and she just doesn't care what people think

but it hurt my feelings.

She asked me after, she's, like,

"God, do you think that I offended them?"

I was, like, "Well, I don't think they really heard it.

"I don't even know if they would've heard it."

We definitely heard it. (LAUGHS) Right. There you go.

So I've been told by three separate people now

that aren't even related to my trades or, like, my workplace,

my worksite... It's not a big deal.

..that Sarah-Jane's been, like, bitching about our painting.

Like, at the end of the day, I'm just not about public humiliation.

I always try to lift people and say nice things

and I could've been really sassy and been, like,

"Well, we're still beating you"

but, like, I'm not about making people feel bad.

Meanwhile, back at the block,

Ryan is admiring the view from his master bedroom.

You know, you're lying on your bed or you get out,

far out, man, it just opens up your view massively.

It's perfect, man. Now we've just gotta get it approved.

Yeah. (LAUGHS)

# Heavy is the heart that wants to be a famous face... #

At house four, one of our most experienced teams,

Dylan and Jenny, have had to go through quite a few shutdowns

due to a messy site.

Shutdowns left, right and centre.

It's a shutdown for two hours. Oh, no.

We're already, like, a day and a half behind,

so that just really kicks us up the bum.

A few days later, they are struck with yet another shutdown.

KEITH: I think we warned you that if it happened again,

there'd be consequences

and unfortunately we have to stop you from working, guys.

Oh! What?

Are you serious? DAN: Hour shutdown.

Just an hour.

We've gotta start...

Like, 'cause people just keep ignoring us.

That's the problem.

(BLEEP) (CRIES)

I want to quit.

So, today, Jenny is doing all she can to prevent another shutdown.

I really just didn't want to get closed down today.

(CRASH!)

Can you see? Is that good? I can't see.

I didn't want to call the builders and be, like,

"Hey, can you take the rubbish to the bin?"

'cause we're paying them however much an hour.

Oh, that's just in the way, isn't it?

Well, that's better, though, for me. But...

(LAUGHS) Oh!

The Block is wild. It is like a rollercoaster.

We're, like, "Oooh... This is so fun, but, oh, my god."

(LAUGHS) "Hold on."

"Hold on for the ride."

We can't afford to be shut down again, so just keep truckin'.

Over at house five, Omar and Oz are on track for a seamless week ahead.

Subflooring and framing got ticked off, ready to go.

Boys are on track and ready to go for insulation and sheeting.

House five are taking a different tack in their master bedroom,

with a Hampton-inspired study space and daybed,

original fretwork, queen-size bed

and suspended fireplace in the corner.

As everyone knows on The Block,

all is often going well until it's not.

OZ: We got the boys to go underneath our master bedroom

to clean out all the rubbish...

and they found little substance of...

it would've been fibro.

KEITH: This is really bad.

But you have to do the right thing by calling the big boys in

to assess it to see if it is asbestos.

That's definitely asbestos, though.

See, there's pieces there.

The more I look, the worse it gets.

Keyword that no-one wants to hear is...

Asbestos.

We found about four or five piece... of asbestos,

so we've just gotta guarantee there's no more asbestos underneath.

The only way we can do that... Can we still work upstairs?

..is by removing it.

No. Seriously?

Seriously.

I'd say a day.

In the meantime, I'd probably put some barrier mesh around the house,

just to prevent anybody from coming in.

But all we can do is sit tight

and your builders may as well go home, I think.

(BLEEP)

(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)

SCOTT: It's master bedroom and walk-in robe week...

KEITH: All we can do is sit tight

and your builders may as well go home, I think.

(BLEEP) So, what are we doing, Keith?

..and Oz and Omar have been trying to stay positive

despite having been shut down due to asbestos on their site.

If something goes wrong on The Block,

you can either have a sook about it

or literally just drop it and move forward.

KEITH: Now... Now, we found some loose pieces of asbestos

this morning. Yep.

But the fact that we've got under ten square metres of asbestos

and it's loose, we can actually remove it ourselves.

Perfect.

Now, Dean's our OH&S guy here. He's gonna stay with you guys.

We're gonna start to clean through here,

obviously have all our PPE on, our masks, our gloves.

Yeah, done. Sounds good.

Oz, we'll get my guys in, you and Omar out

and just feeding it straight into the bin.

House five now begins a mass clean-up mission

to prevent another shutdown occurring.

We don't need a full shutdown,

literally just half an hour to an hour, nice major clean-up

and then move forward.

Over at house three,

Sharon and Ankur have been without their builder Liam for the past week

and tensions are at breaking point.

Liam had been on holiday and we hadn't really been in touch

or in contact and we hadn't messaged him straight away after judging.

We didn't want to bother you on your (BLEEP) holiday either, right,

so there was... You can call me any time.

Yeah, I get that, but...

So we didn't know that Liam wants to be the first point of call

as opposed to...

So that's something between them, I feel.

No, because that's our inexperience in this process.

The builder is the leader.

Well, Sunday night, I'm organising where guys need to be

because of what's happening here. Yep.

But then if I don't know what room's happening... Yep.

Yeah, so I think there's a disconnect

'cause we tell chippy and then assume that it's been told to you.

Now Liam's back,

Sharon wants to confront him about the way things went down.

I'm OK. A bit stressed.

Liam and I had to have a... Frank discussion.

..frank discussion about some issues we were experiencing

which started off from a text message that we received

at 3:30am on Monday from him:

I think it's completely inappropriate

to be sending a message at 3:30am. Yeah.

And you imply that we don't care about you

and we don't care about our trades, which is absolutely bull(BLEEP)

and I'm not taking that, 'cause we do care.

I hate it when our integrity is called into question

and stuff like that.

It's, like... We're good humans.

There is no way we don't care about you.

It didn't seem as urgent to give you a buzz to let you know

because you weren't even here.

And it just felt like a big slap in the face.

I know that you said to Anks yesterday as well

that when I get back from doing things, I don't lift a finger

and I am offended by that.

I think you think I'm attacking you with everything.

Like, if I bring something up,

I'm not, like, having a go and attacking you.

I think me and you are somewhat similar

in that...very kind of... somewhat opinionated...

Again, I'm not having a go at you,

but you will speak your voice to somebody.

No?

I'm actually reacting to something YOU started,

so just be clear on that.

I just honestly came into this thinking

that the last problem that I would have is with my builder,

'cause we have such a good relationship.

And I am saddened to know that that did happen.

It's a stressful situation. We all get it.

You're gonna butt heads.

Liam's saying he's sorry for the message,

which is the start of this whole thing.

Are we all good with that? Yeah, we're all good.

Because we have to do this... Just I'm sad.

I'm sad about the whole thing. I know. But it's stressful, right?

We'll take it as our first and hopefully only hiccup.

Yeah. (LAUGHS)

This (BLEEP) makes you stronger, this stuff.

You'll be fine. And that's good.

You guys have to be able to (BLEEP) talk about (BLEEP)

but we'll just talk about (BLEEP) as it goes.

At house two...

NEALE: It's a bit bland.

..Ryan and Rachel need to wow the judges

after last week's comments.

I feel like I'm seeing a sea of grey.

This just feels a bit... (SIGHS) downbeat.

Ryan and Rachel have a huge master and walk-in robe.

They're going country lodge, with 'Hanging Rock' Grafico wallpaper...

a four-poster bed, large stacked-stone fireplace

and a locally made barn door

leading into a palatial oak-laminate walk-in robe.

Ready to pull out all the stops, Rachel is on a mission.

I'm Rachel. Tays.

Nice to meet you.

Oh, yes. Just beautiful.

Yes, yes. I love that. I love it.

That's gorgeous.

L&M Home, I just got a few different things for my bed.

I want to do this, this, this, this, this.

Perfect. Exciting. I'll get it all wrapped up for you.

Thank you. Pleazh!

SARAH-JANE: I was just feeling a bit emotional

about the whole Sharon thing.

I mean, just kind of questioning my personality

and if I just offend people.

(RINGING TONE) And then my mum calls.

WOMAN: (ON PHONE) You sound a bit flat. What's up?

I upset Sharon, the 'Neighbours' girl.

The one you really like? Yeah.

How did you upset her?

Like, I said a joke and she took it personal.

SCOTT: Sarah-Jane apologises to Sharon via text

and Sharon replied with a rather sharp response.

She wrote back saying:

Then I just, like, got really upset

because I was, like, "Does everybody..."

"Does everybody think like that?"

Does everybody think that I'm just saying mean things to them

when I think I'm having a joke?

I felt, "Oh, my god, is that what people are thinking of me?

"They think that, like, I'm hiding insults behind humour?"

Like, if I'm being honest about a situation,

I know I'm gonna hurt people's feelings.

But when someone insinuates that I use humour

just to say hurtful things,

it just really upset me...

I don't think...

No, I don't think you use humour to say hurtful things

because you'll just say it how it is.

You won't... You won't mask it with humour.

Yeah.

If you've said it as a joke and she's feeling sensitive,

well, then, you can't help it.

You can never please everybody, darl.

Never. I'm fine.

(CRIES) Don't cry, bubba.

You didn't do it on purpose.

Yeah, it's all good.

Alright. Alright.

I love you. Love you too.

Love you. Bye.

# I've been roaming around Always looking down at all I see... #

(CRIES)

# Painted faces fill the places I can't reach

# You know that I could use somebody... #

SCOTT: Hey, Block fans.

This is your chance to win $30,000,

plus a two-night stay during auction week

in our amazing Colorbond Tiny Escape

in the beautiful Macedon Ranges.

How much fun would that be?

Head to the Block website and enter now.

It's four days until the master bedroom and walk-in robe reveal.

Some hot Weet-Bix. Oh, yum.

Thank you.

# Hey! Ho! Let's go! Hey! Ho! Let's go! #

This morning, I had to go get our Hipages lever from Scotty's shed

that was about to be demolished.

Hipages!

Last night, I showed the teams the Hipages lever.

I'm assuming you're Block fans and you know what these are.

Yes. Can anybody tell me what they do?

The Hipages lever. Yes. And...?

We pull them to get Hipages help. That's right!

Yeah, baby. $10,000.

You smash the glass and you pull the lever.

And only one team can pull the Hipages lever per week.

And more importantly, they can only pull the lever once.

Then I will get on the Hipages app

and I will get their fantastic tradesmen to come to your site

and help you get the job done for the week.

ANKUR: That's unreal. OZ: Yeah. MAN: So good!

Worth 10,000 bucks. WOMEN: Wow!

RACHEL: That's great.

I have already commissioned my swimming pool

and it is going right here,

so tomorrow morning, this shed is coming down.

So, tomorrow, you need to come and get your Hipages lever

and stick it on the front of your houses.

If you don't do that and it gets demolished with the house,

you lose your lever.

MAN: Holy moly. SARAH-JANE: OK.

ANKUR: How the (BLEEP) do I get onto that?

I was literally just gonna take mine off the wall.

Shall we, like, hide someone's?

(MAN LAUGHS) Huh?

Hide whose?

Let's hide the boys' 'cause they would prank the (BLEEP) out of us.

The boys play pranks on everybody. I thought, why not take theirs?

And I just thought, as a little bit of a joke, I'll steal the boys' one

and hopefully it gets demo'd in the meantime

and they think that they've lost the opportunity for the Hipages lever.

So we'll just do this for now.

'Cause the boys prank everyone.

Why is number five Hipages lever missing?

Missing? Yeah.

Didn't you take it? No, we didn't.

I'm pissed and annoyed that somebody touched my lever

because they're really picking with the wrong two guys, honestly.

Let's do a good thing.

Let's pick up Dylan and Jenny's one, drop it off to them.

So, who do you think's taken yours? Tom.

I don't know why, but Tom is capable of things like that.

I don't know why.

Whoever did take it is not gonna be silly enough to use it,

so they can take their time with it and then drop it off.

They don't have the balls to do what I think they're thinking of doing,

so rethink that and try and do it again.

If you know anything, please let us know 'cause I'm (BLEEP) pissed off.

JENNY: Oh, wait, maybe it's Anks. He did say he took someone's.

I don't know why you thought anyone was in the mood for a practical joke

at that moment.

I just thought it might uplift some people.

It just caused people some headaches and the boys were just, like...

They got offended. They got offended.

OMAR: Why would they do that? House three...

Honestly, if someone taking your Hipages lever is a practical joke,

then they need to step up the practical joke side of things.

Trust me, the game is low. You gotta get up, mate.

In house three, Sharon and Ankur have the biggest master bedroom

and a huge walk-in robe.

The walk-in robe will have a central island,

with Caesarstone benchtop

and pressed tin on the sides flanked by olive and wood-tone cabinetry.

Let me show you the beautiful new display we have just really quickly.

Awesome.

Because you're actually getting one of the first one ever in Australia

of this unit. Me?

You. You, honey. What?

Wow! I know.

Isn't this gorgeous! Yeah.

I'm gonna gag for this.

It's a pull-out shoe rack and it's just so, so gorgeous.

That is insane.

But yours is actually gonna match all of your cabinetry...

That's, like, set up my whole day. Thank you.

Oh! Thanks, honey. This is fabulous. I feel so lucky!

It's all sorted now!

Yay, Kinsman! Yay!

And just as Sharon arrives back at the block,

so does another surprise I've organised for everyone.

TOM: What's with all the choppers out there?

('RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES' PLAYS)

It's challenge day... Oh!

Bro, look at that!

..and this one will hopefully uplift the Blockheads like never before.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a helicopter landing.

Oh, my god! It actually is one of them.

"So, grab your bags and hop on for a great time."

Love it. Wow.

We're going to get on the piss. Yeah. (LAUGHS)

We are going in a chopper, baby. Oh, I felt sick.

MAN: So we're going shortly. What's wrong?

You look really nervous. Why?

I just don't like heights.

I've never wanted to go on a helicopter.

A helicopter and... hot air balloons.

I've just never wanted to ever do that.

It's just like a bit of a phobia. I don't know why. I don't like that.

You know, just like when your heart falls into your arsehole

and you're just, like, "Oh..."

I've never really had that, I don't reckon.

Oh, my god. I get that all the time.

Like, when I'm super nervous, when I'm dreading something,

on a rollercoaster, it's just, like, boom, straight through the bowels.

I have a daughter to go home to.

I just have no interest in flying in a piece of metal,

like, up in the sky.

It's just something I, like, you know...

It's lovely that people like it. I've never wanted to.

You look really pretty today.

Yeah, because I put heaps of moisturiser on

so that if I died, I died half-cute.

Everyone's, like, "Oh, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Yeah, one life you get. That's correct.

Once in a lifetime to die. Your lifetime's gone. Ended.

Well, come on, let's go, eh? Yeah, let's do it. Let's go.

Let's do it, eh? (IMITATES ARNIE) Let's get down.

(IMITATES ARNIE) The chopper. Get down to the chopper. (LAUGHS)

JENNY: Second time in a chopper.

The first time, we flew to Whitehaven Beach in a helicopter

and landed on the beach and Dyl popped the question.

(LAUGHS) God! Excited!

OZ: Yewwww!

Holy (BLEEP). WOMAN: Wow!

MAN: Guys, we're doing a right-hand orbit on the block...

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Wow.

(BLEEP)

Hey, look at the block, baby.

# This is the part when I say... #

SHARON: This is awesome!

# I'm stronger than I've been before... #

TOM: We did, like, a loop over the block...

Yeah. We saw...

You got a good idea of how much landscaping we've all got to do.

Our house is the biggest, with the most demo, so that was, like, "Oh!"

We were, like, "Our poor builders." Yeah.

# I'm stronger than I've been before... #

Guys, this is amazing. How are you feeling, babe?

I've definitely gotten more used to it. Yeah. Yeah.

My nerves started to kind of fade away.

Everyone's got a dam. Hey, look at the tennis court!

Oh, my god! Look at their garden! Oh, wow. Look at that.

SARAH-JANE:

Look at these ones! Look at all their tennis courts!

(LAUGHS) How cool is that!

Oh, my god! Oh, my god!

Oh, this is fun now that I'm getting nosy

and I can see in other people's backyards.

(LAUGHS)

OZ: It was amazing. And then Omar fell asleep.

(LAUGHS) (SNORES)

I love falling asleep.

Who the hell falls asleep on a helicopter ride?

RACHEL: The Block.

One minute we're knee-deep in demo and the next we're on a helicopter,

flying to the Yarra Valley.

SARAH-JANE: I know.

It's literally like landing in heaven, Levantine winery.

It's all just set out so beautifully.

Like, to see it from the helicopter was incredible.

RYAN: What a ride. So good.

Transport. You made it.

(LOW-LEVEL CONVERSATION)

Coming up...

Tom is Sonic the Hedgehog. SARAH-JANE: Keep going, baby!

..our Blockheads go all out in a winemaking challenge...

I'm gonna be blind after this. You just necked that.

..to win the biggest challenge prize ever.

Hundred grand. It's a lousy 100 grand.

That'll do. It actually tastes (BLEEP).

And some will do whatever it takes to win.

Some people are being quite cutthroat.

I think we got it. It's pretty good.

(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)

That was amazing, bro. Ridiculous, yeah?

SCOTT: The Blockheads have landed in style at Levantine Hill Estate

in the Yarra Valley,

ready to embark on a wine-filled challenge,

with the biggest prize ever.

Hello. (LAUGHS)

Welcome to the challenge that we are calling 'The Grape Escape'.

And I know you're all very familiar with the spectacular wines

from this joint

because I've been serving them up to you at our weekly barbecues.

And today you're gonna be making your very own.

Oh!

Except for you, Omar and Oz. We've got other plans for you two.

OZ: The reason why we couldn't take part in that is...

OMAR: We don't drink wine. ..we couldn't taste it.

To our beliefs, we don't drink alcohol, so...

We don't drink.

So we gave them another chance, the other four contestants, to win.

We're joined by head winemaker Paul and brand manager Melissa.

Thank you so much for having us. Pleasure.

You guys are gonna be making your very own wine from grape to label

and that means crushing, blending, bottling, naming, describing

and finally, labelling.

It is a very big challenge.

But it comes with a massive prize, Shell.

Oh, it sure does.

This magnificent tower of Levantine Hill primo wines,

including estate favourites...

and it's valued at $100,000.

Wow. Oh, my god.

That's 50 grand for the best wine blend

and 50 grand for the best design label.

That's gotta be our biggest prize ever.

Yeah, last week, it was ten grand... Ten grand.

..for making a letterbox.

This week, it's... 100 grand.

It's a lousy 100 grand.

SHELLEY: And then, of course, you're gonna need somewhere

to put all that fabulous wine, aren't you,

which is why we have here today...

CONTESTANTS: Oh!

..the Vintec ESPACE walk-in wine cellar.

This one is worth a cool $50,000.

Oh! (LAUGHTER)

So, how can they win it, Scotty? Well, very easy, Shell.

All you gotta do is win master bedroom and walk-in robe week

and Winning Appliances will deliver it directly to your home.

Won't that moment be a grape one!

(LAUGHTER)

So, really, you wouldn't want to win that wine

without winning the cellar

because where are you gonna put your wine?

They go hand in hand.

There are three stages to the challenge.

Stage one, crushing grapes.

Alright! Are we ready? CONTESTANTS: Yes!

Three, two, one!

Crush 'em!

(LAUGHTER)

It's a simple game. Whoever fills the most bottles wins.

DYLAN: Go, Jen.

And because I'm a good bloke, I'm chucking in ten grand cash

for this stage of the challenge.

MAN: Nice. Yeah, look at Ryan! They're full!

The crushing challenge was fun. It was so funny.

One person had to be in the tanks crushing the grapes

and the other person had to be getting the juice

and filling up some bottles.

Oooh... (BLEEP)

Have a look at Rachel go!

And Omar and Oz were there supporting us

because obviously they can't do anything with the wine.

Sarah, fill that up a bit. That's not gonna be consistent.

All the way, all the way.

SARAH-JANE: Keep going, Tom!

Tommy from house one, absolute machine.

SHARON: Yeah.

# Do your thing... #

SARAH-JANE: The vat's bigger than him, so his head wasn't over the vat

so you could just see this vat shaking.

Keep going, baby!

# Do your thing... #

Tommy's Sonic the Hedgehog!

And I was just screaming at him.

I want to see you move your arse like you've never moved before!

Standard. Yeah.

(PANTS)

My fitness has gone downhill dramatically.

(LAUGHS) I was, like, huffing and puffing.

# Because I'm so close, so close... # (BLEEP)

And we've got how many bottles there? We've got five.

This will be the fifth. Is there much coming out?

Yeah, there is. But only one so far.

Only one bottle? Only one bottle.

Far out! So keep crushing.

Three minutes!

JENNY: Go, Dyl! Go!

I was, like, pumping these bottles out

and I'm, like, "Surely we're gonna win."

Ten seconds! Go, babe!

Go, go!

Five, four, three, two, one...

Down! Stop!

Oh...

You got a definite winner over there.

Nine and a half! (ROARS)

BOTH: We absolutely crushed them!

(APPLAUSE)

$10,000! Yeah.

Oh, these are the blends. Cool. Cool.

There's wine there.

Stage two of the challenge is to make their own wine

and the prize is a whopping 50 grand.

You all look fantastic in your white coats and it looks very scientific.

Alright, what are we up for today?

OK, today, guys, you are going to be re-creating our Family Paddock wine,

the 2021 Samantha's Paddock Bordeaux blend.

You have individual components in front of you to come up with a blend

which is the sum of the parts.

Because most reds are made up of a blend of different grapes,

these guys have to work out just what percentage each of these wines

makes the perfect Samantha's Paddock.

Omar and Oz, you're not gonna be blending any wine,

so you're gonna head straight to the design room

and you'll still be playing for the 50,000 bucks worth of wine

that you can sell with your home up there.

OK. You've got two hours. Your time starts now. See you later.

Come on, Shell. Let's go.

This challenge is slightly more difficult.

So this is the Samantha's Paddock. Yep.

So we need to re-create that. Yep.

They must re-create this bottle of wine

and the best blend gets them 50 grand.

That's Samantha's. I know.

That's why I'm sniffing it.

And each team has their own unique way.

I'm gonna have to taste them.

Tom, don't get too drunk because you...

I've had literally not even a mouthful...

I'm just saying!

The game plan is Tom has actually drunk red wine

many, many times in his life.

I've had two glasses in my whole life.

(COUGHS) God, I hate red wine.

Mmm.

Don't know the difference between a good bottle and a (BLEEP) bottle.

Just try that a little bit.

"Leafy and mysterious." It's red and you pour it into a cup.

Every now and then, I put an ice block in it

and, hell, bang it down.

RYAN: Go 95 and we'll do 5% cherry.

Yep. We love wine, right? We love wine.

Oh, yeah. They're way off. Sweeter... I mean, we can taste it.

It's heaps sweeter.

So we thought the best thing to do was drink as much as we can.

(COUGHS) That is not the one.

That is not it. (LAUGHS)

Who wants to get it on the first blend?

Because how do you then keep tasting? You know what I mean?

(LAUGHS) What?

You're tasting them out of this?

We're just necking it from the bottle.

Oh... (BOTH LAUGH)

JENNY: Never made a bottle of wine before.

I can't even tell the difference when a schooner comes out

and the boys get them mixed up,

let alone trying to make another blend of wine.

(LAUGHS) Oh, yeah.

I'm gonna be blind after this. You just necked that.

And then there's this way.

(TENSE MUSIC)

Cool. Are you gonna go now?

So I know what it is. I just need to...

I know the percentages. I need that.

We've basically got cab sav, merlot, malbec, cab franc and petit verdot.

I think that I know what that blend is made out of...

Yep.

(LAUGHS) ..percentage-wise...

Yep.

..and therefore, I know what that percentage of the 750 needs to be...

Yep, or you can make it up to a litre...

Yeah. ..in there.

But we're making 750, right, so we make one mix of 750 here.

Whack it in there. Happy days. All done. OK. Yeah.

I remember reading about Samantha's Paddock

and then just basically did, like, I don't know, 70% cab sav,

broken down into, like, 20% merlot...

The majority cab sav...

'Cause we drink this wine a fair bit,

so we sort of know what the grapes are...

And my dad makes wine, so we talk about it a lot at home.

I think we got it. It's pretty close.

Nailed it first time. I don't know. (LAUGHS)

We're just, like, going with it.

JENNY: Oh, they've got it.

Corking time. There we go, we're corking for you.

RACHEL: Anks and Shaz have got theirs.

RYAN: They've already got it? Yep.

ANKUR: Yeah, perfect. There you go.

Amazing. This is ours. SHARON: Yeah!

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks, guys.

(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)

So, which one am I doing here, bub?

So, the franc, how much am I putting in? Just two and a half?

Two and a half.

SCOTT: Our Blockheads are re-creating

one of Levantine Estate's great wines...

Gee. Oh!

Sorry, I didn't mean it. There's a nozzle on it.

Oh... (BLEEP) Sorry.

..and there's a staggering 50 grand in wine up for grabs.

In this wind-blending stage of the challenge...

How many mils is this?

TOM: Crazy. I've never made a wine.

I don't know anything about wines. I just drink... Same.

..for the same reason everyone else does.

To relax. So... Yeah, to relax.

RACHEL: OK. So, 20ml would be...

(BLEEP) I don't know. RYAN: Oh, thank you very much.

MELISSA: Have a flick through this. Some label shape ideas.

Melissa, stop it. We know exactly what we want.

Honestly, we... Really? Tell me.

We have full-on wonderful ideas.

Stage three of the challenge is to create their own wine label...

Yeah, that looks nice.

..and it's worth $50,000 in wine.

Do you want it darker? Yeah, just a bit.

Yeah? Yeah, just a bit. Yep.

And it means Omar and Oz are back in the game.

Oz is a bit of an artist, so he's got something in mind already.

Guys, when they look at us,

we tell them a million types of stories, to be honest.

Yeah. I really want it to be about us.

Storytelling. Of course. Love it.

Are you guys nearly done? Literally one minute.

I think we're wrapping up. You guys have had ages.

Alright. We're done.

We'll do the label, we'll do it the best we can

and we'll try and get $50,000 for that.

Do you have any ideas? SHARON: We do.

Tell me.

So we're thinking about calling it The Naked Tree.

Oh...

Sharon and Ankur completed their wine blend in ten minutes.

I'm a bit of an 'auteuse'...

..leaving them plenty of time to design their label.

So I'm looking for an image that I did myself.

I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

I actually have done really beautiful naked portraits before.

I think we should just use one of mine because then it's original.

Where did I...

I can't find it. I reckon we just...

What did it look like? No, I want it to be mine, honey.

Please don't rush me.

As Sharon searches for her artwork...

When did I do that, honey?

I did it. I would've put it on here.

So that's at 95. Perfect. Stop.

..the other wine scientists...

Oh, my god. This is just (BLEEP) next-level.

That'll do. Yep.

..are still trying to create their special formula.

SARAH-JANE: Just five. TOM: Yes, Sarah-Jane.

My ears are not paintings. (LAUGHS)

I'm listening. That was four.

Oh, shut up.

We have no experience in blending wine.

No idea how to blend wine, mate.

We'll see. A bit of everything.

Mmm. That'll do. Oh, it actually tastes (BLEEP).

Ah, well, back to the drawing board for these two.

Oh, that smells good.

But for Rachel and Ryan...

This is the blend that we just done? That's good. That's good.

..the smell of success is ever so close.

It's actually really good. That's a lot smoother.

JENNY: Is that the one? DYLAN: Yep.

What's the best way of getting it in this, you reckon?

That's actually pretty close.

How do you get it in here? You just tip it?

MAN: Steady hand. Really?

And confidence.

Well over an hour into the challenge...

Perfect.

..they can finally bottle their wine.

SARAH-JANE: Tom, don't move it. Tom...

God, it's like working with a five-year-old.

RACHEL: Done. Good to cork, mate.

Thank you. Are you happy with it? Yeah.

I've always wondered how to put a cork in a bottle.

In she goes. # Dun-dun-dun... #

Look at that!

That's awesome. There you go, guys.

Thanks, mate. Legend. I wouldn't touch the top just yet.

Yep. Beautiful.

DYLAN: Thank you. Thank you so much.

That looks awesome. Head upstairs and see Melissa.

Thank you. Thank you, mate.

Literally the last one finished. (LAUGHS)

So we can write the blurb after this.

We just need to get that and that photo. Yes.

25 minutes later and Sharon still can't find the artwork

she wants to use for her label...

Mate...

I could not for my life find them on my phone.

I had them on my Instagram and I couldn't find them

so then I was, like, "Oh, well,

"I'm just gonna have to draw them from scratch."

While she draws, we do the font?

..while the others anxiously wait for their time with the graphic artist.

Do you know how long until this challenge finishes, guys?

40. 40 minutes?

How many couples are left? Three.

Three.

So, everybody needs to get at least ten minutes with them.

Go very politely and explain that there's 40 minutes

and three couples left.

Very politely.

TOM: Just so you know, there's 40 minutes left.

SHARON: Thank you.

And... Yeah, everyone else has to get in.

We'll try and be done in the next ten minutes. Yep.

JENNY: Do we all get a chance to speak with you? Definitely.

Yeah. Just 'cause I think they're waiting as well.

And have you spoken to the other couple yet?

No. Oh, right.

OK. So we're finishing in ten.

In ten minutes? But then she's gotta go to them.

And gotta go to them and gotta go to us... Yeah, yeah.

I'll try and finish in ten. Yeah.

They're not gonna have much time with me. OK. Yeah.

There just wasn't much concern

that everyone else was still waiting.

TOM: How are we travelling? We're, like, five minutes.

MELISSA: We're nearly done. We just need to place the sketch in.

They sat there for, like, another ten minutes.

We're gonna get, like, two minutes. You're gonna get two minutes.

You know, that's what made it icky for me.

ANKUR: Just start with...

TOM: You've got one minute, guys. Yep, yep, yep.

(BLEEP)

Wrap it up. And then just within at the end...

Yep. That's it.

Alright. Control alt delete.

(LAUGHS)

Kill me now. That's actually funny. (LAUGHS)

Do I keep this or do you keep this? ANKUR: Just leave it, Shaz.

Let's go. Just leave it.

It was a little bit selfish.

Yeah, like that. That. Let's bring that back. Yep.

30 minutes left on the clock and three couples to go.

Sarah-Jane and Tom finally sit down to design their label.

I was kind of trying to use more, like, 'bold', 'euphoric' and 'moody'

but I just don't want it to be too overboard.

The graphic designer was so lovely.

I think something like that. That one's, like, perfect.

You are so easy-going. (LAUGHS)

For 11 minutes, what she did was amazing. (LAUGHS)

So I'll take it.

Thank you. Thank you. It turned out beautifully.

Sorry, I went one minute over. I apologise.

RYAN: It's all good.

Time is ticking as Rachel and Ryan get their chance

to design their label.

Are we doing a square label? No.

Can we have this label, please? Yeah, that one there?

This one here.

So we'll cut that out on the red line,

so then you're just left with the shape. I love it.

I kind of already had in my mind

what I wanted to do for the wine label.

Macedon Ranges.

I knew we were doing 'Hanging Rock' in our room this week.

I wanted to tie it all together.

Oh, that looks unbelievable. Alright.

Hopefully our label comes through. I feel like we've got a good one.

Yeah, maybe, like, something like that either side.

And then you could probably even do one underneath. Or like that.

With only six minutes to go...

Like, either side there and then maybe one underneath.

..Jenny and Dylan have to move fast.

It was hard.

Like, we had an idea in our head

what we wanted to design on our bottle.

Add an orange, type thing, to go with the house.

Oh, yeah.

But we literally had probably five minutes with her,

so it's kind of hard to design a label in five minutes.

Hey, can I ask you a question?

And then Shaz came up at the very end

to ask if the rest of us would mind if she went back

because she forgot something.

Are you comfortable with me quickly telling her to put where it's from

on the bottom of the label?

Shaz, I don't think you're gonna have any time.

They're gonna see her right till the last minute.

I was, like, "Well, Dyl and Jen are there."

JENNY: Let's go cabernet sauvignon.

They only have, like, less than ten minutes to do their whole label

and it's, like...

Give them... It was a bit of a selfish call.

Did you just finish yours?

We did, but we forgot to put one where it's from.

Where it's from, yeah. For where it's from.

For the description? Yeah, I want to put where it's from.

OK. Oooh. Hey, Melissa... Yeah.

..if you get time, can you chuck that at the bottom of ours,

just where it's from? Yep.

To think that some people, in their challenge,

like that, which is a lot of fun,

are still being quite cutthroat and that

just makes me a little bit nervous.

You know, it will bite you in the bum.

It'll come back to you at some point.

It'll come back. It will come back. Yeah.

(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)

Well, Shell, don't they all look spectacular!

SHELLEY: They have done a magnificent job. Absolutely.

Well done.

The Blockheads have been stomping grapes, blending wine

and creating their own label

in the hope of winning some of the biggest prizes ever.

Well, Paul, tell us which glass you like

and I'll reveal the team colour that has won.

(LAUGHTER)

Paul is the creator of the wine Samantha's Paddock,

so his palate knows which wine is the closest when he tastes it.

And may I just remind you all

what we're playing for here with our blind tasting?

Oh, he smells it.

$50,000 worth of Levantine Hill wines

to take home to sell with your beautiful homes.

Wow.

He's not mucking around, Paul, is he? He's going pretty quick.

No, he's having a good smell. Yeah, yeah.

Oooh. He screwed his face up at a couple.

Oooh.

There was a little technique in that. RACHEL: Yeah.

(LAUGHTER) Oh...

Just like that. So dramatic.

Right. Mate, glass one, two, three or four?

Wine four.

Wine four.

I'm just gonna hold the colour up and you guys can see it.

I don't know whose it is. Are you ready?

(TENSE MUSIC)

Whoa!

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

ANKUR: Winning!

SHARON: Winner, winner, alcohol dinner. Whoo-hoo!

No, stoked about that. That's awesome. Yeah.

Just any wins on The Block give you another pep in your step.

SHELLEY: The closest... Thank you.

..to your original palate for Samantha's Paddock.

PAUL: Very close to the pin. Very close.

Well done.

OK.

There's another 50,000 bucks worth of wine up for grabs now,

so over to you, Melissa.

You guys all did an incredible job and it was really, really difficult,

especially with the time constraints

but I really saw all of your personalities come through

in your label designs.

But there's a clear winner for me.

I'll just point to it. This one.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Oh, my god!

(LAUGHS) Yeah, we won, bubs!

MAN: That's awesome!

Well done. (SQUEALS)

We won the label! We won the labelling.

(APPLAUSE)

So it was a clear winner for you?

Yeah, 'cause they incorporated the wallpaper design from their home.

They had a photo of it and it's actually the background.

Right. Right. Right. So I thought, "Yeah."

It was hard, though.

OK. Are we back to the choppers, Shell?

Well, I don't know whether you can

take $100,000 worth of wine on your choppers

but, yes, you are heading back to the block.

Have a great flight. CONTESTANTS: Thank you.

RACHEL: That was our first win. Like, it was a day.

RYAN: It was a good day. BOTH: It was a real good day.

JENNY: Back to the chopper. DYLAN: Yo, yo.

The winners' chopper.

OMAR: I asked the guy.

Apparently Ank's was almost, like, identical...

DYLAN: Oh, really? ..with their drink.

Really? Yeah.

Holy (BLEEP).

Yeah, look, thoughts were, after the challenge, that...

(CLEARS THROAT) that Shaz and Anks

obviously had to have googled the recipe

because I wanted to know how close we were and I googled it

and it popped straight up.

And I'm, like, "Surely these guys had to have googled it."

To walk out that quick with such confidence and to win it, you know,

there had to have been a quick little Google search.

RACHEL: Congratulations. ANKUR: Thanks, guys.

Whoo! We're all winners in here.

SHARON: Yeah.

RYAN: Mate, I went and tasted your wine...

You liked it? Yeah. It tasted so close.

Yeah, 'cause I'm pisshead. How can you tell?

'Cause I remember the taste of it. How did you do that so quick, man?

On the helicopter ride on the way back,

Anks gave us a really big story about the wine that they drink

and how they always drink that wine

and they've been drinking that wine for two years...

So, literally, when 2015 came out, I've drunk it every day in COVID.

They sponsored Fashion Week last year, Levantine...

It was the year before. ..and we just got them all.

If you're gonna do something like google

and you don't want people to know, stop talking!

Stop talking! Stop making up stories about it!

They sponsored Fashion Week last year, or the year before...

Oh, really?

..and so, I went to, like, ten different shows

and every time, they gave me two bottles of this wine.

Stop talking!

Mind-blowing.

(TENSE MUSIC)

SCOTT: Tomorrow night on The Block...

Yesterday, Paul said "That is exactly my wine," right?

..the wine cheating controversy steps up another gear.

Oh, no! That was my maths.

I was, like, "You're kidding!"

I think they think they've broken the rules.

Correct.

Because if you're sure that you haven't, you're totally honest.

They've lied to you straight in the face.

Straight to the face!

And it's a rollercoaster of a ride to the finish.

That is incredible! DAN: Oh, whoa, whoa!

What is that?

Oh, I never got told about this. I didn't know anything about this.

If we can't get it, then it would definitely impact our room greatly.

So much fun, Froggy.

No, it's good to get out, just me and you.

If they were serious about finishing,

one of them would be here.

I've gotta say, this is the least finished I've ever seen a room.

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