Tensions have risen in this season of The Block after one team wasn’t invited to a group event in Monday night’s episode. Han and Can, who were recently accused of copying Sonny and Alicia’s designs, awkwardly revealed they hadn’t been invited to a dinner organised by Robby and Mat.
Fans have since speculated on social media that there’s a growing divide among the cast, especially since this wasn’t the first time Han and Can missed a group dinner. However, Robby and Mat insist that’s not true. The best friends told Yahoo Lifestyle the only reason the girls weren’t invited was because they were unwell, and Robby’s young son, Brooks, was going to be at the dinner.
I can tell you right now, there is 100 per cent no ‘exclusion scandal’ at all, that was blown out of the water. The girls were kindly uninvited not to come because they and every workman on their side was so sick that we didn’t want to run the risk of us getting sick or baby Brooks, or the pregnant lady [Emma]. It’s just about social awareness. Like, if I was sick, as sick as they were, I would just say, ‘Hey guys, I’m sitting this one out’.
Mat says
Mat, who says he caught their illness by the end of the week, adds that he thinks Han and Can got sick because they had a smaller team and were working harder than everyone else.
They were so sick. They’d worked themselves into the ground, and they were vulnerable, but they got themselves sick.
he remarks
Despite the recent tension on the show, Robby and Mat share that the cast has remained close since filming ended, with no bad blood or ongoing feuds.
No one’s left the group chat; we speak every day. Mat and I went on that show with just the two of us, and we left with eight very close mates that we’ll have for the rest of our lives. I think that’s pretty special, considering the last handful of years when some contestants don’t even speak to each other. This year was really nice to leave this whole crazy thing with eight best mates.
Robby shares
Mat says the reason the teams got along so well this season is because, besides the casting agents doing a “phenomenal job”, they also spent a lot of time together at night.
Because this is a new building and there was no certificate for occupancy, people weren’t left to their own devices at night. Because what [normally] happens is, you’re on a TV show, so stuff’s going to be said and you’re going to go back to your house and go, ‘Well, Sonny and Alicia did this and blah blah blah’.
he explains
Instead of plotting and gossiping, Mat says this year’s cast spent their nights sitting around their caravans together, “singing kumbaya like some little gypsy cult.”
If we had any issues or whatever, we could be like, ‘Hey, what about this?’ and they could be like, ‘No, that was out of context, it was more like this’. We could share our trials and tribulations of the day because s**t went wrong, left, right and centre all day, every day, and we were there to support each other.
he details
Source: Yahoo